Pushing Limits

So the default XMP profile for these Team Group T-Force Vulcan SODIMMs is naturally 2666 MHz. It actually very closely matches JEDEC 2666 MHz profiling, enabling these sticks to have quite wide compatibility. But these claim to be able to overclock, so of course I tried pushing them to see what I got.



There are two approaches you can take with tuning these sticks. You can either tighten up the timings, or you can increase the speed. With my particular sets (since I do have two 16 GB kits here to match my X299 test platform), the tightest I could get timings at he default XMP speed was 15-15-15-35, which isn't too bad at all. I did not focus on sub-timing tweaks and just focused on the primary four timings since many laptops will have limited options for memory timings, while also increasing the voltage to 1.35 V



The other approach had me loosen timings a bit and scale up the speeds, which had me reach 3200 MHz fairly easy with 1.35 V.

Clearly there might be more available on tap. Other kits may go farther as well, but how far is clearly variable, since the max speed these sticks offer out of the box from Team Group is just 2666 MHz. There are no 2800 MHz or higher kits, so how far you might get is rather random, yet is also still platform dependent, as not all AMD platforms can scale up the memory speed that well as Intel platforms do just yet. That actually give more credence to that max spec of 2666 MHz, again, as a compatibility item.