World Record: 3175 MHz @ CL8 and 3095 MHz @ CL6
Category : Extreme
Published by Marc Büchel on 21.10.11
For about one and a half months, the guys from ocaholic have known that they were going to try break memory world records. At an exhibition called IM-Top which was being held by the Swiss distributor Ingram Micro ocaholic was welcome to try break memory world records. Already some time ago the two French Overclockers Benjamin Bouix aka "Benji Tshi" and Jean-Baptiste Gerard aka "Marmott" have been able to overclock the exact same modules like we did yesterday. In order to have an optimal setup to break memory world records Kingston provided us with their HyperX 2544 MHz module with the exact name KHX2544C9D3T1FK2/2GX. These modules are based on Elpida Hyper BDBG chips. During the first tests Roger (splmann) Tanner and Marc (Besi) Voser quickly evaluated that these modules are most suitably to get some very nice low latency clock speeds. For CL10 and CL11 there are other Kingston modules that do their job better and there are also some Corsair DIMMs which can be clocked higher. Therefore it is logical that it's been splmanns and Besis plan to try break the low latency world records at CL6, CL7 and CL8. Regarding CL6 they had to crack 2902 MHz, at CL7 it was 3082 and CL8 was at 3170 MHz.
Relaxed but precise - that's what you might know from Swiss people - Besi started to setup the system. It almost took him ages until everything was in the exact position he wanted it. In order to quickly find out how far they could go regarding clock speed at CL11 they started with this setting. It took splmann and Besi about a quarter of an our to reach the limit which was at 3200 MHz.
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CL8 and CL6 World record!
Afterwards the latency has been sharpened to CL8. Again it took them about a quarter of an hour until the reached the hot phase. CPU-z was showing far more than 1550 MHz (effective 3100 MHz) and the world record was only a few MHz in front uf us all. Slowly but certainly the two guys came closer to the desired 1585 MHz (effective 3170 MHz). And finally, there it was ... CPU-z showed us 1586 MHz (effective 3172 MHz). Splmann and Besi as well as the audience started clapping their hands you really felt how the spark reached the audience. But as soon as the boys hit the 1586 MHz the question was: how far can they go and the journey ended at 1595.5 MHz (effective 3191 MHz). What an incredible clock frequency at CL8!
Ok then ... let's try CL7 then. But the CL7 session ended quite quickly. The system was highly unstable and almost nothing wanted to work with these latencies, which is why splmann and Besi quickly moved on to CL6.
At this point we didn't know that we were going to crack the old world record, which already was at an insanely high 2902 MHz, by quite a margin. But let's start from the beginning. splmann and Besi needed only few minutes to get the memory to 1400 MHz (effective 2800 MHz) and they already started to wondering why this is so easy. Some minutes later they got it, they've reached more than 1451 MHz (effective 2902 MHz) at CL6! Seriously this clock speed at theses latencies is insane! But never the less, this wasn't the end of the road. With the adrenaline pumping through the veins of splmann and Besi as well as through the audience they went on. It was absolutely unbelievable and kind of unreal. Minutes later the setup did 1500 MHz at CL6 (effective 3000 MHz). The final result was an absolutely mindblowing 1547.9 MHz (effecitve 3095.8 MHz). And I have to write it again: almost 3100 MHz at CL6! which really is validated! Really guys that was absolutely awesome!
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| CL8 and CL6 World record! |
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Thanks to everybody!
Concluding we say thanks a lot to splmann and Besi for their impressive demonstration of what possible when you give some really good memory to two of the worlds best memory overclockers. Special thanks also go to Kingston and Adrien Viaud which is the really nice guy who made this world record possible! Thanks a bunch Adrien!
| The plan |
| CL8 and CL6 World record! |
| Thanks to everybody! |
Discuss this article in our forums.