Kingston HyperX RAM Sets Two New World Overclocking Records
Kingston HyperX RAM Sets Two New World Overclocking Records
Posted 11/09/2011 at 11:37am
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A couple of Swiss overclockers set a pair of memory overclocking records using a 2GB dual-channel kit of Kingston's high frequency HyperX DDR3-2544 memory (KHX2544C9D3T1FK2/2GX). It's the fastest dual-channel memory kit around, and thanks to Roger Tanner "splmann" and Marc Voser "Besi," it's also the kit responsible for setting frequency records at CAS 6 and CAS 8.
At CAS 6, the overclocking duo pushed the kit to 3095MHz, and at CAS 8 it topped out at 3175MHz. These are the fastest frequencies ever for each respective CAS latency.
It's no shocker that it took some serious cooling to set these records. The team used liquid nitrogen, first fixing the memory slots in a cooler made from aluminum and copper. Kingston says the cooler had a basin at the top, which was filled with -196C liquid nitrogen.
Image Credit: Flickr (Kingstno Technology EMEA)
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EthicSlave
November 09, 2011 at 8:59pm
would love to see chipsets/mobos adopt more channels eg. dual channel becomes quad channel
ashinms
November 09, 2011 at 1:44pm
it would be interesting to see what extreme cold like that does to the hardware. I bet it wasn't easy keeping the memory in its slots as the hardware shrunk with the LNo.
Rooke
November 09, 2011 at 12:32pm
They probably could've gone even higher if they used liquid helium. That's great that those speeds are possible, but they sure aren't practical.
Did they just go as far as posting at those speeds, or did they actually do something with the system like play Crysis, or run MemTest for several hours?
reflex99
November 09, 2011 at 8:02pm
when you bench like this, you don't have time to play crysis.....unless you have some sort of blazin' fast raid array that lets you load/play the game in the 1-10seconds before it crashes....
m1k3_flrs
November 09, 2011 at 4:42pm
You know, I always wondered that too. If they reach such higher speeds, is it for a few minutes or do they actually put the computer under heavy tasks?
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