Is Samsung DDR3 1600Mhz good for overclock?

[asnko]

I'm getting a new rig to try DDR3 system, and I will be overclocking both CPU and RAM. I wanna know if Samsung's DDR3 is good for overclocking.

And I've seen those letters come after the ram's model name like S or E or U but mine seems to be without any of those letters (if the seller's correct.) will this affect the performance of the ram?

Spec:
CPU : i7-4790k
Motherboard : MSI z97 Gaming 5
RAM : Samsung PC3-12800 8GB * 4
GPU : GTX 970

 

[damric]

If it's the "green" version with low voltage (1.25v if I remember), then yes they generally have good OC headroom, although it varies because they are not "binned"

DRAM manufacturers like g.skill bought lots of those same ICs and binned them, meaning they took the best ones and put them on the same stick to sell at higher speed and make more money. You could have like 3 chips that OC good but be held back by one that is a slug because Samsung only rated them to run at JEDEC 1600CL11. But either way, give them some voltage, at least 1.65v, and see what they do.

 

[Regeneration]

Yes. Samsung DDR3 memory chips are great overclockers but its hard to find the optimal/stable manual timings.

Use HCI MemTest or MemTest64 to test memory config stability without a pagefile, in safe mode.

 

[Vario]

I'm getting a new rig to try DDR3 system, and I will be overclocking both CPU and RAM. I wanna know if Samsung's DDR3 is good for overclocking.

And I've seen those letters come after the ram's model name like S or E or U but mine seems to be without any of those letters (if the seller's correct.) will this affect the performance of the ram?

Spec:
CPU : i7-4790k
Motherboard : MSI z97 Gaming 5
RAM : Samsung PC3-12800 8GB * 4
GPU : GTX 970

If I recall, some of the best was CH0-C9 and the YK0. I had a bunch of the low profile low voltage DDR3L "Green" YK0 and it overclocked well.

 

[Regeneration]

If I recall, some of the best was CH0-C9 and the YK0. I had a bunch of the low profile low voltage DDR3L "Green" YK0 and it overclocked well.

Over the time, after DDR4 was released, almost every recent (made after 2016) Samsung DDR3 module was capable to reach 2000-2400 with the right timings.

 

[asnko]

Thank you all for the tips and stuff I wanted to know about! I really appreciate it

 

[Vario]

Thank you all for the tips and stuff I wanted to know about! I really appreciate it

The model you should look into is MV-3V4G3D/US also listed as part M379B5273DH0-YK0 , that stuff was good. Only 4GB per DIMM though.