Overclocking

Overclocking didn't get us very far, but I still managed to get an extra 100 MHz by adjusting timings and increasing the voltage to 1.7 V. I did try looser timings as well, but found that I could push no further. I would have thought that perhaps our test CPU might have been playing a role as well, but considering that the kit consists of four 8 GB modules, it's not hard to understand why the gains may seem meager compared to other products. With top-level results in more than a few benchmarks when running the XMP profile already, I really wasn't even expecting to get as much as I did. The offered extra headroom is perfectly fine considering this kit is actually intended for P67 and Z68, which offers very little in the way of memory speed adjustments outside of those offered by changing the memory divider.

Overclocked Performance Summary

SuperPi finished with the G.Skill F3-2133C9Q-32GXH kit in first place, a result that I didn't expect at all. Considering the other results are at 2400 MHz or more, this is outstanding.


wPrime got a decent boost as well, but even the XMP profile was faster than some of our 2400 MHz results.


AIDA Read Performance barely improved at all, much more like what I expected, but we already know that AIDA's benchmark doesn't always make full use of the bandwidth available on Intel X79 Express platforms


Likewise latency testing in AIDA didn't improve much either, sitting in the bottom spot.


WinRAR also gave us results like AIDA, with only minor gains offered when overclocked.


Shogun 2 put the overclocked F3-2133C9Q kit in second place, but this was only a 0.33 FPS increase from stock.