Overclocking
Disclaimer: Overclocking is never guaranteed, so that the results may vary depending on certain conditions and various hardware configurations. I am not recommending overclocking if you do not know what you are doing. High voltages may damage hardware, and the warranty will not cover it.
HyperX Predator RGB DDR4-4600 is using Hynix DJR IC. This IC recently made multiple world records in memory frequency. No one says it’s a stable frequency as stability highly depends on the used platform, and even the best memory controllers and motherboards are usually limited to about DDR4-5600. The first motherboard was used for tests, so ASRock Z590 Extreme was limited to about DDR4-5200. This was the highest memory clock at which we could stabilize the Predator RGB RAM. Below is a screenshot from AIDA64, but these settings were used for all other tests at DDR4-5200 in this review.
To make some more is required good memory controller and better motherboard. Once we moved to MSI Z590I Unify, then the memory could boot at a much higher frequency. Even though stability couldn’t be achieved at a much higher clock than for overclocking purposes, it made a huge difference.
Recently HyperX took first place in memory frequency ranking with results at a bit more than DDR4-7000. Considering that these results were made with the help of LN2 cooling, then our result on nothing but standard cooling is amazing. Below is a screenshot with a link to CPU-Z validation of the DDR4-6400 result!
The HyperX Predator lets us set a wide range of frequencies and timings that should satisfy most users. For specific lower frequency and low timings, Samsung-based memory kits seem to be better. Still, the current generation of Intel processors shows higher performance at high memory frequency, so this is what can be a better option for both gaming and overclocking.
