Wednesday, November 23rd 2011
Corsair Sets New Overclocking World Record
Corsair, a worldwide designer and supplier of high-performance components to the PC gaming hardware market, today announced that it has set a new world record with a memory frequency of 1733.8MHz (DDR3-3467) using Corsair Dominator GT CMGTX6 extreme-performance DDR3 memory.
World champion overclocker and Corsair employee Jake "Planet" Crimmins set the new record at Corsair's laboratory with a custom-designed, liquid nitrogen cooled PC based on an AMD FX-8150 processor and equipped with 1GB of Dominator GT extreme-performance DDR3 memory. The system was powered by a Corsair Professional Series Gold AX1200 fully modular power supply."Breaking overclocking world records requires skill, ingenuity, and the right equipment," said Jake Crimmins. "I've broken several records using Dominator GT memory. It's reliable, it has amazing headroom, and it's never let me down." Validation can be found here, and details of the record here. A related blog post on the Corsair Blog can be read here.
World champion overclocker and Corsair employee Jake "Planet" Crimmins set the new record at Corsair's laboratory with a custom-designed, liquid nitrogen cooled PC based on an AMD FX-8150 processor and equipped with 1GB of Dominator GT extreme-performance DDR3 memory. The system was powered by a Corsair Professional Series Gold AX1200 fully modular power supply."Breaking overclocking world records requires skill, ingenuity, and the right equipment," said Jake Crimmins. "I've broken several records using Dominator GT memory. It's reliable, it has amazing headroom, and it's never let me down." Validation can be found here, and details of the record here. A related blog post on the Corsair Blog can be read here.
49 Comments on Corsair Sets New Overclocking World Record
Otherwise, we'd be seeing more 2400 MHz ++ 4GB DIMMs. Heck, Corsair has problems getting 2133 MHZ 4GB DIMMs in stock. My refund is proof of that, because it makes no sense for them to refund me $550 when they could have just sent me a $300 kit if they had it...a kit that WOULD NOT have cost them the same $300. The very nearly paid me more than quadruple what the ram is truly worth, becuase they cannot get high-speed ICs in large quantities, not matter the density.
Why Corsair has this problem currently, I am not sure. G.Skill had no problem getting me a 16 GB 2133 MHz kit.
MSI tried to say that the board sample has been used during an OC competition, and that's why the socket burnt, but hte fact of the matter is that burnt sockets are NOT jsut a 1156 thing, unfortunately.
Burnt sockets usually only happened to S1156 in the past decade. If any other socket burnt, that would be an extremely rare situation. In the past years of everyday forum reading, coming as far as to failed systems, a burnt socket hasn't been one of the cause of failure.
Under normal usage, no socket should blow, period. Foxconn's problematic socket or not.
Fact of the matter shows that during the launch of SKT1155, many boards were warmped from teh socket retention mechanism. On Z68, this became less of a problem, but this specific issue is one that I tracked quite closely, as if it was a potential problem, I wanted to let my readers know.
That said, P55 sockets only really blew under OC'd conditions, as did the 1155 socket in question. Personally, I see it as no big deal.
No other platform has had such socket issues.
At the same time, Peet had been running far higher ram speeds, and votlage, not too long before he had the problem. The fact that the problem with the Foxconn sockets was identified, and later remedied, means there are specific reason why the socket fails, and that OEMs were able to replicate the problem.
In fact, I even know what pins burnt, before ever looking at his pictures. Becuase it's not jsut the Foxxconn socket, but the cobination of the foxconn socket, with Hyper ram, IMHO, that causes the socket to fail.
Anyway, this has nothing to do with Corsair, the GTX sticks used, or the record that was broken. Please feel free to open a new thread to discuss the foxconn socket issue if you would like to continue the dicussion. It's an intersting subject I wouldn't mind talking about now that I am waiting on my CPU to arrive so I can get some work done on my X79 reviews.
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I'm way more eager to see 4GB DIMM clocking other than the hard-to-find kits, BTW.
Different GTX6 module than the previous blog post. I have an older blog on 16GB(4x4GB) 1600MHz Vengeance kit doing almost 2000MHz.
So I gotta ask..why the pics with two sticks frozen then? Kinda false advertizing, in a way, no?
I've been playing with the Vengence LP Whites. It's not no 4x4 GB, but still pretty good, IMHO. Haven't found a max yet.:
by either "stretching the life out" or providing a boost to current software
Here is a 16GB kit (4x4GB) @ 1920MHz these are Vengeance 1600MHz modules.
www.corsair.com/blog/corsair-vengeance-high-density-module-overclock-results
This is 8GB (2x4GB) of CMGTX7 running @ 2800MHz and they are cooled using liquid nitrogen.
www.corsair.com/blog/overclocking-the-new-dominator-gt-cmgtx7-ddr3-memory/
The World Record was set with a single 1GB module of CMGTX6 @ 3467MHz using liquid nitrogen.
www.corsair.com/blog/corsair-breaks-memory-frequency-world-record/
This looks like two modules, and hence the confusion. Of course, it's just ice buildup.
Seperately,
This post of yours is something many people complain about, because near noone has been able to get anything even remotely close:
www.corsair.com/blog/corsair-vengeance-high-density-module-overclock-results
However, I'm getting pretty close with these LP Whites. Hence my pic/post.
;)
Now. Don't get me wrong, I was asked specifically today why you had a pic with two modules in the GTX6 34xx MHz post. I'm just clearing the air now that you're here to answer directly. Personally, there's no confusion. I read all of your blog posts pretty much as soon as you post them. Checking the Corsair blog is something I do very regularily, and that's why I went right there to get that pic of the GTX6 I posted on the first page. I thought it was the same module, even.
Anyway, added with the CPU-Z saying dual channel, and you can understand what's going on regarding the GTX6.
www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/gskill_ripjawsz_ddr3_1866_16gb/4.html
not even close:shadedshu