Today I want to talk about a guilty pleasure of mine, the overclocking of RAM, more precisely DDR5 and its timings. There is a strange difference between the specifications of JEDEC, the standard’s committee, and the Intel specifications of the Alder Lake CPUs of the 12th generation. And even though the exact functionality of the individual [...]
SK Hynix 16 Gbit M-Die is known to be the holy grail in terms of DDR5 overclocking, at least at time of writing. The prices for the fastest kits with clock rates in the XMP profile of over 6000 Mbps are still quite expensive. However, if you dare to work on the clock and timings of the RAM yourself anyway, cheaper kits with the same ICs are an [...]
Qualified Vendor Lists, or QVL for short, are probably familiar to anyone who has looked for a suitable pairing of motherboard and RAM kit. Since RAM kits with an XMP profile are not covered by the official specifications of the CPU manufacturers (Intel or AMD), motherboard and RAM manufacturers test the compatibility between their products [...]
G.SKILL is constantly expanding its portfolio of DDR5 offerings. While a 2x 32 GB SKU with 6000 CL30 was added just a few weeks ago, the smaller but even faster 2x 16 GB 6600 CL34 kit is officially announced today. This is yet another variant of the well-known Trident Z5 design, which will be available in black and silver, with and without RGB, as [...]
We recently already tested the Dominator Platinum RGB modules from Corsair, but not yet in the SKU with 6200 Mbps and Hynix M-Die ICs. Today, that is changing. Besides the usual tests, a teardown and overclocking, we also compare the modules with the mentioned Samsung B-Die based variant and RAM sticks from other manufacturers, but with identical [...]
What do you do with two Core i9-12900K trays? That’s right, binning! Today we have a very special treat for you from the south of Germany. The system integrator MIFCOM has kindly provided us with a large amount of Alder Lake i9 CPUs so that we can put them through their paces and examine them for differences in clock speed. Originally, the [...]
Teamgroup is a known brand in the memory market and not only since DDR5. Today we’re looking at one of their more cost-effective product lines of the new RAM standard, in the form of a VULCAN DDR5-5200 2x 16 GB kit. In addition to testing in XMP, we will of course overclock the kit manually again and find out how close you can get to faster [...]
Today we’re looking at the next high-performance upgrade level of DDR5 memory, in the form of the ADATA XPG LANCER RGB DDR5-6000 CL40 2x 16 GB kit. Our sample is based on the SK Hynix M-Die memory chips, which currently offer the highest performance and overclocking potential for DDR5. Even though the XMP profile looks rather unsuspicious [...]
G.Skill shows a new DDR5 overclocking world record with 8888 Mbps on Trident Z5 memory. Together with a Maximus Z690 Apex motherboard from Asus and an Intel Core i9-12900K processor, overclocker “lupin_no_musume” has set a new world record for the highest RAM clock. Just as extreme as the frequency is the cooling used for this in the [...]
Today we too start with the kit reviews for DDR5 on the new Alder Lake platform. At the launch at the beginning of November, the availability of the new memory kits was more than sparse, but since then one or the other DDR5 memory module has actually shown up as “in stock” in many online shops. Perfect timing to take a closer look at [...]
DDR5 is known to be rarer and harder to come by than some GPUs at the moment. Therefore, the question arose for me: Does an Intel CPU of the 12th generation, codename Alder Lake, really need the new memory standard, or is the performance with DDR4 on a similar level? Alder Lake now also uses two separate memory controllers (IMCs) for DDR4, one for [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
Today it’s about non-existing coolers for unavailable RAM, so once again pure unicorn cinema for all who are only missing the RAM for the new Intel system with DDR5 modules. The fact that the parts want to be well cooled, and even have to be, is beyond question, especially when overclocking. Because what is quite often installed ex works is [...]
The basic changes to the new DDR5 memory standard have already been discussed around the launch of the Intel Alder Lake CPUs, even if sometimes not completely correct. So today we’re going to revisit the topic and delve deeper into the matter together with Kingston, who were kind enough to provide us with a written interview. It’s no [...]
The new memory controller with DDR5 support is known to be one of the biggest changes in the 12th generation Intel Core CPUs. But DDR4 is also still supported – assuming an appropriate motherboard – and there have been some changes under the hood here as well. Perfect conditions to let Comet Lake, Rocket Lake and Alder Lake compete [...]
The RAM manufacturer G.Skill has managed to overclock their new Trident Z5 memory modules to DDR5-7000 with timings 40-40-40-76 on the new Intel Alder Lake platform and also verified this as stable with over 100% coverage in the HCI Memtest. Two 16 GB modules with Samsung memory chips are used together with an unspecified Intel 12th Gen CPU and an [...]
Disclaimer: The following article is machine translated from the original German, and has not been edited or checked for errors. Thank you for understanding!
As CPUs become faster and faster, the main memory must be able to keep up with the volume of data to not become a bottleneck. For the same reason, the upcoming generation of Intel CPUs will also rely on the new DDR5 standard, which is supposed to bring more bandwidth through higher clock speed and at the expense of latency compared to DDR4. With [...]
With the first DDR5 platforms on the doorstep at the end of this year – if the leaks are to be believed – it’s the dash to the line for DDR4 and for memory manufacturers this means it’s time to refine the design one last time. Corsair launches the Vengeance RGB RT DDR4 series today, specifically tailored for Ryzen systems [...]
