4,072MHz RAM: G.Skill Sets Record for World’s Fastest Quad Channel Memory

Just when you thought things in the memory world were settling down as we await the dawn of DDR5, it looks like we can hold on, DDR3 is not going anywhere soon and the folks at G.Skill have pushed the speed to an amazing 4,072MHz.

At this moment in time these guys actually have a few World records under their collective belts including their previous record of 4GHz. Intel’s Ivy Bride-E platform has only been on the market a short time, but the G.Skill crew wasted no time mounting an offensive to beat their previous record. Liquid Nitrogen was once again used in this event along with some other manufactures parts to achieve this victory with the G.Skill parts on the new silicon from Intel. G.Skill now holds the record for DDR3 memory, which has now been confirmed as 4,027MHz.

The kit used to break this record was none other than the TridentX memory that has been used so far in multiple record-breaking achievements by G.Skill. The quad-channel TridentX kit was used on an Asus Rampage IV Black Edition motherboard with an Intel Core i7 4960X Extreme Edition processor. Setting the world record also required liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooling, which is not for the common man and if you were hoping to pick up one of G.Skill’s kits and achieve the same results at home you are dreaming my friend. Now just to be clear, even hitting this record required a bit of tweaking on the part of the overclocker who actually had only 1 of the Ivy Bridge-E cores activated for this so its not like anything about this was under normal circumstances.

This was all about overclocking the RAM, with one core active and the CPU was clocked at 2,035MHz. As for the RAM, timings were set at 14-31-15-45 for the record breaking OC. This is all really cool stuff for the extreme spectrum of things, but for the normal guy at home using his/her PC this would be a silly thing to even try and attempt as it’s not only over-the-top, if you do not know what you are doing it can be a danger to you and/or others. The thing is though that if they can achieve this now under extreme conditions, down the road it will probably be the speed of the DDR4 memory in your system fairly soon and that is where the excitement is for the average Joe.  For now though, its still exciting news and I can’t wait for the technology to trickle down to street level for us all. Thanks for Reading Tech OF Tomorrow, have a great life and enjoy the technology.

Source: Maximum PC