Tuesday, November 24th 2020
New World Record: Crucial Ballistix Max Memory Overclocked to 7004 MHz
Overclocking is always fun and almost everyone can do it, however, when it comes to extreme overclocking, there are only a handful of persons doing it. Today, a Chinese extreme overclocker "baby-j" has managed to establish a new world record frequency with his Crucial Ballistix Max DDR4-4000 (BLM16G40C18U4B.M8FB1) memory kit. Using liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooling for the DIMMs, the overclocker managed to push the memory kit to an amazing 7004.2 MHz, making it the world's highest frequency hit on DDR4 memory. What is more amazing is the fact that the platform used for the new record-setting overclock, is based on AMD's B550 motherboards running with AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G processor, which seems to have a very good memory controller. The timings were a bit relaxed with them running at 22-26-26-46-127-1 (tCAS-tRC-tRP-tRAS-tCS-tCR) settings.
Sources:
x86 Validation, via Tom's Hardware
14 Comments on New World Record: Crucial Ballistix Max Memory Overclocked to 7004 MHz
... I can always share my DDR4-5656 on the same IC and full air cooling from a couple of days ago ;)
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and 2x16GB at DDR4-5426 CL18, probably stable but I had no time for long tests
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The board in this pic is a Maximus IV Gene LGA1155 DDR3 with a GTX580... Quite old
But that is not a Maximus IV Gene, it is a Crosshair V Formula, note the red detail protruding from the heatsink close to the I/O (and the rest of layout belongs to this board)
I have the same kit in RGB and have managed to get them to 4300, but it becomes a bit unstable past this.
Love these modules though :)