Overclocking
When it comes to overclocking memory, some people find it useless. Lets face it, you won’t see big jumps in performance from overclocking memory like you can see if you overclock a video card or a processor. But personally, I find overclocking memory extremely fun. There are tons of things to tweak such as timings, subtimings and voltages to push your memory to the limits.
This particular set was able to do 2600mhz after a fair amount of trial and error at 1.665v with 1.2v of VCCA as well as 1.15v VCCIO. At first they would not pass at all beyond 2400mhz, but thanks to a couple of tips from a buddy they became rock solid at 2600mhz. Sadly, without using extreme cooling they were unable to go farther.
With some spare time it is entirely possible that an addition to this review could be completed where extreme cooling results could be added.
My subtimings and timings will be included so that those who purchase this kit for themselves have a guideline to try and hit the same frequencies and timings.
If you are planning on running stock clocks, but with tightened timings I am sorry to disapoint you. But they are simply not made for running tight timings. You might get a lower cas level but that is about it. Also keep in mind that sticking with 1.5v is not going to get you very far at all if you intend on overclocking. Depending on your motherboard you might need to bump voltage over 1.5v just to run stock clocks.
CPU-Z Information
11-13-13-2T at 2600mhz is not too shabby at all! It would have been nice to get some tighter timings but since I am out of time to test these sticks we will have to “settle” for 2600mhz. Nothing quite like an almost 500mhz overclock in memory frequency.
Memory Settings
Superpi 32m
When overclocking memory Superpi 32m is a solid benchmark to test for stability. Some people may like running tests like memtest, but unless you are running your PC as a server or doing extreme loads of rendering Superpi 32m is more than enough to assure that your memory overclock is stable.
Wprime
Once again we see a bit of difference from tightened timings in wprime. While this is not a huge amount of difference, those few miliseconds can mean alot to competitive benchmarkers.
Maxxmem
Once again we see the lowered timings making a difference in the hwbot version of Maxxmem, particularly in the latency section.
Maxxmem2
Maxxmem2 improves as well, it just goes to show that even a slight tightening of timings can make a difference in testing.
