Press Release: G.SKILL's TridentX Memory Reaches DDR3 3,900MHz!

[hokiealumnus]

I received this press release from G.Skill. Being a person that enjoys clocking memory, this is particularly impressive. Heck, even if you're NOT a person that really enjoys memory clocking this is impressive.

G.SKILL’s TridentX Memory Reaches DDR3 3,900MHz! Officially the World’s fastest RAM!

Taipei City, Taiwan - 13th Nov 2012
Congratulations to professional overclockers “HiCookie” and “Christian Ney” for breaking memory frequency world records with G.SKILL’s flagship – TridentX Extreme Performance Memory Series!





Earlier this month, professional overclocker “HiCookie” first posted his official memory clock score on HWBot.org, boasting his world’s fastest memory frequency at DDR3 3,354MHz with ultra low Cas Latency CL11, on INTEL’s Ivy Bridge – Core i7 3770K CPU & GIGABYTE Z77X-UD4H motherboard!
HiCookie’s submission on HWBot.org: http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2327027_hicookie_memory_clock_ddr3_sdram_1676.9_mhz



Few days after, professional overclocker “Christian Ney” shattered his own world memory frequency record on AMD platforms, pushing G.SKILL’s TridentX to an incredible speed at DDR3 3,900MHz on GIGABYTE GA-A75-UD4H motherboard! Christian Ney’s submission on HWBot.org: http://hwbot.org/submission/2328217_



We would like to thank both overclockers for their effort and hard work, benching their way to world’s number 1 spot with the fastest RAM in the world – G.SKILL TridentX Series! It is once again proven that there’s no doubt about G.SKILL’s superior quality and is definitely a force to be reckoned with!

As Bill Wang – VP at G.SKILL states “Despite being world’s fastest RAM manufacturer, G.SKILL will continue to strive for first-class quality at a most competitive pricing to the market.”

G.SKILL – World leading memory & Solid State Drive manufacturer based in Taipei, Taiwan. The Company’s top priority is quality. All of the products undergo a series of the most rigorous tests and strict quality control processes. In addition to a committed, qualified IC testing house to examine the products, all G.SKILL products are 100% tested to ensure the highest yield, reliability and quality.

 

[Mandrake4565]

That is pretty impressive. Being unfamiliar with official benching, does it have to pass any tests before being a record, or just have to boot and be able to take an "official ss"?

 

[EarthDog]

Just has to boot.

Wow... that is incredible, AND it was done on AMD!

 

[Anonaru]

Just has to boot.

Wow... that is incredible, AND it was done on AMD!

Haha, this was what I was thinking while making a sour face at my Deneb rig

But hot damn is that an impressive clock speed-- I bet this would offset AMD's memory controller issues if you could get it stable

 

[hokiealumnus]

That is pretty impressive. Being unfamiliar with official benching, does it have to pass any tests before being a record, or just have to boot and be able to take an "official ss"?

Frequency is the easiest "benchmark" to physically complete (but one of the hardest to actually be #1 because you have to have golden hardware, and some LN2 skills). The system has to boot into windows, then likely raise frequency with software with CPUz open. Tick up frequency, hit F7 in CPUz (to record a validation). Rinse & repeat until the system crashes.

 

[Woomack]

Yep , truck full of memory,cpus and boards to pick best IC/IMC ... and it has been done this way actually, at least for that 3900 result. Hicookie's one was on ES board and hard to say if in stores will be the same version ...

That cpuz F7 dump is often bugged. I have more broken validation files than good ones. All my 3200+ results on DDR3 had broken validation files

 

[Nebulous]

Dayum. I wonder how much voltage it took that ram to get there?

 

[Bobnova]

World Record! (for a specific platform and CAS setting...)
They initially tried to call Hicookie's the "Intel Platform WR", until they had 3-4 faster results pointed out to them.
The scores are impressive, the marketing... Also impressive, just not in quite the same way.


This post is the WR setting post for the 8th post in a thread about G.Skill marketing on a Thursday morning!

Voltage wise, lots