Pushing For Speed

With the Team Group T-Force XCALIBUR RGB sticks proudly proclaimed as having some ability for overclocking, it made sense to see what I would get out of these sticks. Since we already know these sticks feature Samsung ICs, a clear idea of how high we could go is immediately evident, so let's take a look at just how good these sticks really are! I did try out the default JEDEC timings as I scaled things up. The other set uses the sticks default timings.



Bit by bit I pushed up the clocks using each divider, and ran tests along the way. I ran each divider with both sets of timings to see where I'd end up, and you can see that above. Those 4000 MHz clocks are fairly good, but tightening the timings further was not that pleasing. A good set of 4000 MHz sticks can do 4000 MHz with 16-16-16 timings, but these sticks cannot; they wouldn't even boot with those timings in place. 4000 MHz with default timings was completely stable though, and is likely where I will end up leaving this kit in one of my own rigs. I really like this kit, and I'm holding on to it! I really need to get one of the actual 4000 MHz kits, though, to confirm whether they clock as I expect, as I can't be sure of that given this kit was provided as a sample, but the 4000 MHz kit was not.