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 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 using MemTest64.



I was able to get 3700 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, and VCCIO: 1.3 V).

A 500 MHz overclock without touching any timings is a good result, and 3700 MHz CL16 is a pretty good sweet spot no matter which platform you are on.