Pushing For Speed

With testing out of the way, I endeavored to see if these sticks had any headroom. I left the voltages and timings alone (at their XMP defaults) and started increasing the frequency divider until the system failed to boot. At that point, I backed it down to the last bootable configuration and did some basic stability testing.



I was able to get 4000 MHz out of this kit with all other XMP settings at their default. Like many recent kits, pushing past that proved difficult. Raising voltages did not yield better results (highest tested: DRAM: 1.5 V, VCCSA: 1.35 V, VCCIO: 1.3 V). I also played with the timings (at the stock frequency) and was able to get a small bit of improvement, down to 16-18-18-38. Taking the timings down further, and the frequency with it to maintain stability, the T-Force Xtreem Gaming was able to achieve 3200 MHz at 14-14-14-34 1.35 V. So despite not having much room for higher frequencies, the T-Force Xtreem Gaming is still ripe for tweaking.