Tuesday, November 13th 2012
New Memory OC Record of DDR3-3900 Set
Swiss overclocker Christian Ney set a new memory OC record, clocking in at 1950.3 MHz (actual), 3900.6 MHz DDR. The record was made possible (apart from great skills), by G.Skill F3-2666C11-4GTXD 4GB DDR3-2666 MHz memory, AMD A8-3870K APU, Gigabyte A75-UD4H motherboard, and a liquid nitrogen pot made by K|ngp|n Cooling. A top performing memory module was picked from nearly a dozen modules. The 1950.3 MHz DRAM clock was supported by timings of 14-14-14-36. DRAM voltage is kept under the wraps. The CPUID and HWBOT validations can be found here, and here.
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OCaholic
17 Comments on New Memory OC Record of DDR3-3900 Set
And a review of this particular G.Skill Trident 2666C11 kit
I don't believe there are enough gains for me to spend that kind of time.
I read reports that DDR4 standards have been approved and we can look forward to speeds from 2133MHz ~ 4600MHz.
DDR4's channel-per-DIMM slot thing... and it's sheer speed improvement to begin with, should solve most of what APUs need... also, if AMD implements some of that shared L4 memory Intel wants for Haswell's HD 5000 (?)... unified access to the memory controller should also speed things up. Either way, I love the direction AMD (& Co.) is taking with the APU thingy.