Corsairs Sets World Record for Dual Channel Memory on AMD Phenom II Platform
Corsairs Sets World Record for Dual Channel Memory on AMD Phenom II Platform
Posted 05/13/2010 at 5:15am
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Don't ever let it be said that the folks at Corsair doesn't encourage overclocking. If they did, they'd be hypocrites because they've gone and set another world overclocking record, this time for the highest dual-channel memory frequency on an AMD system.
The setup consisted of an AMD Phenom II X6 Black Edition processor, Asus Crosshair IV Formula motherboard, Nvidia GeForce 6600GT, and several Corsair-branded components, including a Hydro Series H50 CPU cooler, Nova Series V64 SSD, Professional Series 850HX power supply, and 4GB (2x2GB) of Dominator GTX4 memory.
"The new Phenom II X6 CPUs offer a quantum leap in overclockability for the AMD platform," stated Jim Carlton, VP of Marketing at Corsair. "The combination of the new CPU core and Corsair's most aggressively sorted DIMMs resulted in some truly amazing memory performance."
More specifically, Corsair was able to push the RAM to 2287.6MHz at CAS 9 "after spending several hours of testing timings, sub timings, voltages, multiple processors, and various frequencies." And as for the processor? The Phenom chip was cruising along at 3717.49MHz.
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Tekzel
May 14, 2010 at 6:16am
"the folks at Corsair doesn't" Seriously, do you guys even proof read your articles? I don't feel the need to constantly correct folks grammar or spelling in the comments, no matter how horrible they may be, but damn. That one was pretty glaring.
As for the topic at hand, I have never really felt the need to overclock. Sure, you can eek a few extra frames out of your hardware, but the work and risk involved never seemed worth it to me. Of course, I also never buy the latest and greatest hardware either. I didn't even when I could call myself a gamer.
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austin43
May 13, 2010 at 12:07pm
However impressive, this means absolutely nothing. There's a very tiny performance difference even between ddr3-1066 and ddr3-2000.
Cooketh
May 13, 2010 at 1:50pm
I agree. I still don't see the point in overclocking RAM or spending big bucks on the highest clocked memory.
Overclocking is ganna kill the lifespan on your memory, and the performance difference for overclocking is almost always under 5%
kevaskous
May 13, 2010 at 2:20pm
I hate this absurd statement. Over-clocking lowers lifespan, it simply isn't true. I got over-clocked DDR 333, yes, 333Mhz, from GeIL i might add (Good RAM) That has been clocked to 450mhz since the day they released it, no errors, no problems, ever. Still runs in that old box. If you kill the lifespan of your device through over-clocking, you either got far too greedy or are a total idiot.
kevaskous
May 13, 2010 at 2:22pm
To add to my statement, i have many, many more cases just like this. if you are seriously wanting any piece of hardware to last you what....10 years..more? Holy crap dude.
avenger48
May 13, 2010 at 9:04am
Am I the only one wondering why Corsair would use a 6600GT? Did I miss something? Does using a card that is 5 generations old help the overclockability of the RAM? Maybe they're just trying to indicate that you would be forced to get such a bad card after shelling out for this RAM?
austin43
May 13, 2010 at 12:08pm
They probably just grabbed whatever they had laying around. The video card has no bearing on ram speeds/timings.
AETAaAS
May 13, 2010 at 5:51am
Did I miss something in the new X6 processors? Looking at the quote: "...quantum leap in overclockability...", I am unsure of what has changed. Aren't most of the basics still the same other Phenom IIs?
Nyarlathotep
May 13, 2010 at 9:38am
Since the memory controllers are integrated into the CPU's I would assume they have improved the controllers in the X6 series. That's why the proc makes a difference when overclocking the memory. The article doesn't mention DDR2 and I think all of the new Phenom's are AM3 now. If you look at Corsair's website the GTX memory is DDR3.
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