G.Skill Memory Showcases DDR5-10600 2x24GB on ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Apex Motherboard

[GFreeman]

G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd, the world's leading brand of performance overclock memory and PC components, in cooperation with the ASUS ROG team, is showcasing multiple overclock achievements on the newly announced ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Apex motherboard, including a high memory speed of DDR5-10600 and another operating at DDR5-6800 CL28 in 1:1 mode, both under Memtest stress-test. Additionally, G.SKILL DDR5 memory is used by ASUS in-house overclocker, Safedisk, to break several overclock records with the latest AMD Ryzen 9 9950X desktop processor.

Exploring OC Limits at DDR5-10600 2x24 GB
Aiming to explore the limits of memory overclock potential of the new motherboard, Safedisk challenged the fastest possible dual-channel memory speed with Memtest stress-test running. The screenshot below shows a 48 GB (2x24GB) memory kit operating at DDR5-10600 with the ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Apex motherboard and AMD Ryzen 5 8500G desktop processor, completing the Memtest stress-test with CPU and memory under water chiller cooling.



DDR5-6800 CL28 1:1 Ratio Achieved with AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
In addition to the high-speed DDR5-10600 demonstration, G.SKILL memory is also showcasing DDR5-6800 CL28-40-38-55 48 GB (2x24GB) at 1.65 V, with the UCLK:MCLK ratio at 1:1. For more details, refer to the screenshot below to see the Memtest stress-tested DDR5-6800 with the ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Apex motherboard and AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D desktop processor.

Breaking Multiple Overclocking Records with AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Further demonstrating the memory overclocking capability of the ASUS ROG Crosshair X870E Apex motherboard and AMD Ryzen desktop processors, multiple benchmark overclock records have also been broken using G.SKILL DDR5 memory. Special congratulations to the extreme overclocker, Safedisk, for the amazing achievements. Find a list of the overclock records below

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[phubar]

While the clocks are impressive that 1.65v requirement really rubs me the wrong way. I'd expect those DIMMs to require a fan pointed at them all the time because otherwise they're going to get scorching hot. I can't imagine the memory controllers liking that much volts 24/7 either.

Personally I'd rather have some DDR5 6000 with super low timings that runs at 1.3 or 1.4v tops. I'd expect that to more likely work across a broad spectrum of mobos and CPU's while performing quite well for most general purpose tasks. I know some got announced a while ago but I haven't seen it for sale lately.

 

[huggi]

Personally I'd rather have some DDR5 6000 with super low timings that runs at 1.3 or 1.4v tops.

G.Skill have already got you covered for that. They already announced a DDR5-6000 CL26-36-36-96 kit for both 2x16GB and 2x32GB capacities.

G.Skill Releases Low Latency DDR5-6000 CL26 & CL28 Memory Kits

G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd, the world's leading brand of performance overclock memory and PC components, is thrilled to release new low CAS latency memory kits featuring AMD EXPO overclock profile for the new AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors and performance X870 chipset...

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[kapone32]

It is a strange world where you can use one of the cheapest AM5 CPUs, with one of the most expensive MBs to do this. 10600 is insane. That is actually almost double what I run my 8600G at.

 

[wNotyarD]

It is a strange world where you can use one of the cheapest AM5 CPUs, with one of the most expensive MBs to do this. 10600 is insane. That is actually almost double what I run my 8600G at.

The cheapest AM5 G-suffix APUs are actually better than the CPUs to do so, they're monolythic instead of chiplets.
It is actually the case in AM4 as well, the IMC on the APUs is superior (or at least just capable of higher frequencies) to the one in the CPUs.

 

[rv8000]

While the clocks are impressive that 1.65v requirement really rubs me the wrong way. I'd expect those DIMMs to require a fan pointed at them all the time because otherwise they're going to get scorching hot. I can't imagine the memory controllers liking that much volts 24/7 either.

Personally I'd rather have some DDR5 6000 with super low timings that runs at 1.3 or 1.4v tops. I'd expect that to more likely work across a broad spectrum of mobos and CPU's while performing quite well for most general purpose tasks. I know some got announced a while ago but I haven't seen it for sale lately.

I run my sticks at 1.54 vdd/1.45 vddq 6400 c28 daily, and outside of stress testing for stability, the sticks barely break 38c after hours of gaming. All i have for cooling is a singular (center fan) on my nh-d15, setup would probably be fine up to 1.6v but c26 would probably require 1.65+ at 6400 on this kit.

If I had to guess the lower latency kits will only be so-so as stock trfc and trefi will have bad refresh windows. They’ll be better than what is available now, but spending an hour tuning trfc and trefi will give you much better benefits than spending $80 extra on a tighter cl kit.

 

[freeagent]

DDR5 go brrrrrr

Pretty impressive.

 

[phubar]

G.Skill have already got you covered for that. They already announced a DDR5-6000 CL26-36-36-96 kit for both 2x16GB and 2x32GB capacities.

Them and some other brand announced them a while back sure but you can't buy them yet.

I run my sticks at 1.54 vdd/1.45 vddq 6400 c28 daily, and outside of stress testing for stability, the sticks barely break 38c after hours of gaming.

TPU already did some testing with RAM temps and they were getting something much higher than what you were: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/ddr5-temperature-variable-analysis/2.html.

I've personally seen temps over 60C with mine at 1.48v. And there are plenty of other people online reporting rather high temps when you get DDR5 over 1.4v in general.

Most of the overclockers will tell you to have a fan pointing at the RAM for over 1.4v.

If I had to guess the lower latency kits will only be so-so as stock trfc and trefi will have bad refresh windows. They’ll be better than what is available now, but spending an hour tuning trfc and trefi will give you much better benefits than spending $80 extra on a tighter cl kit.

If you turn on EXPO with the low latency CL numbers, or tune further manually, that will give you a OK boost but that is a given. Personally I don't have the patience to tune manually for the 32GB sticks. They tend to be rather touchy in my experience. The 16GB ones are easier from what I've seen.

 

[rv8000]

Them and some other brand announced them a while back sure but you can't buy them yet.


TPU already did some testing with RAM temps and they were getting something much higher than what you were: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/ddr5-temperature-variable-analysis/2.html.

I've personally seen temps over 60C with mine at 1.48v. And there are plenty of other people online reporting rather high temps when you get DDR5 over 1.4v in general.

Most of the overclockers will tell you to have a fan pointing at the RAM for over 1.4v.


If you turn on EXPO with the low latency CL numbers, or tune further manually, that will give you a OK boost but that is a given. Personally I don't have the patience to tune manually for the 32GB sticks. They tend to be rather touchy in my experience. The 16GB ones are easier from what I've seen.

Built in sensor readings may or may not differ from the thermal couples used in that testing. Nor are they using the same heat spreaders as a Corsairs Dominator Titaniums (whether or not they're better or worse) on my kit.

I’m not gonna lie, and I definitely appreciated the read/testing done, but the actual results and data were off compared to what I’ve come to experience on 7 kits of a/m-die and literal hundreds of hours testing and oc’ing kits on AM5.

For instance 8+ hours of karhu at 1.54/1.44 will see peak temp readouts from the hotter of my two sticks at 51.8c +/- a half degree during stress testing in karhu. I’ve tested this kit and others up to 52-53c without any errors in a range of 1.5-1.6 vdd and 1.5 vddq max with trefi maxed at 65535 for upwards of 24 hours. It was very surprising to see stability jump off a cliff like the kit that was tested in the review where and when it did.

Again there is discrepancy/error in dimm readouts on hwinfo for temps but past confirming stability with 8-24 hour testing without exceeding 55c, voltage when not under unrealistic loads isn’t going to slam the dimms and hit ridiculous temps under more typical scenarios.

 

[johnnypop]

I run my sticks at 1.54 vdd/1.45 vddq 6400 c28 daily, and outside of stress testing for stability, the sticks barely break 38c after hours of gaming. All i have for cooling is a singular (center fan) on my nh-d15, setup would probably be fine up to 1.6v but c26 would probably require 1.65+ at 6400 on this kit.

If I had to guess the lower latency kits will only be so-so as stock trfc and trefi will have bad refresh windows. They’ll be better than what is available now, but spending an hour tuning trfc and trefi will give you much better benefits than spending $80 extra on a tighter cl kit.

I've got 2x48GB Corsair Vengeance running 6400@CL28 1.57v with a simple fan and never exceed 50 degrees under 12h OCCT test while they are dual rank so technically they should be running even more hot

 

[kapone32]

The cheapest AM5 G-suffix APUs are actually better than the CPUs to do so, they're monolythic instead of chiplets.
It is actually the case in AM4 as well, the IMC on the APUs is superior (or at least just capable of higher frequencies) to the one in the CPUs.

Yep got me a 8600G to replace my 5600G based HTPC and the Memory support on AMD APUs is 2nd to none.