The memory overclocking war continues and this time, it's Saltycroissant who managed to break the 12,800 MT/s barrier second time.
Overclocker Exceeds 12,800 MT/s Mark with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 on Z890 Taichi OCF; Makes a New World Record!
At the beginning of this month, overclocker "bl4ckdot" achieved the highest DDR5 frequency of 12774 MT/s using Trident Z5 memory on the Z890 platform. The same overclocker broke his record two days later by achieving a whopping 12,822 MT/s, becoming the second to break the 12,800 MT/s mark. Saltycroissant remains the first to break the 12,800 MT/s mark on 3rd May by achieving 12,806 MT/s.
Roughly two weeks later, the same overclocker broke bl4ckdot's record by hitting a staggering 12,832 MT/s. Even though a mere 10MHz difference may seem very small, it's quite difficult to get such increments when you are already way over 12,000 MT/s. Saltycroissant has remained on top previously, but since other enthusiast overclockers have been continuously making newer records, it's not easy to maintain the top position for too long.
The 12,832 MT/s is surely one of the most difficult speeds to achieve, but this probably won't stay at the top for long. Enthusiast memory overclockers like Seby, Splave, and Hicookie are also in the race to claim the number one position, and all of them have had their chance at some point in time previously.
As for saltycroissant, reaching 12,832 MT/s was possible through a 24 GB DDR5 RAM stick of Corsair Vengeance memory, installed on the ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF with an Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF processor. The Z890 Taichi OCF needs no introduction. This motherboard has been used plenty of times to break the memory frequency world records, and we have found it one of the best if not the best Z890 motherboards for overclocking.
In order to keep memory cooler while overclocking, the overclocker used nitrogen cooling, which is the standard setup for other overclockers as well. The result has been published on HWBot and has been validated by CPU-Z as well. With timings of 68-127-127-127-2, we can clearly see that these recent frequency records have shown some good improvements where the overclockers didn't have to compromise much over previous records when it comes to latencies, but keep in mind that such frequencies don't have much of an impact in real-world applications or games.
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