• G.Talent Trident Z5 DDR5 was overclocked to 6027MHz or 12,054MT/s
• That was achieved utilizing simply air cooling, without having for liquid nitrogen
• There’s, nonetheless, a catch (of kinds) in how the CPU was configured

G.Talent has once more been setting data with its DDR5 RAM, this time with a critically spectacular overclock that doesn’t use any unique cooling.

This feat was achieved utilizing G.Talent Trident Z5 DDR5 by an skilled overclocker from Indonesia, a sure ‘pace.quickest,’ who managed to crank the RAM as much as 6027MHz (or 12,054MT/s).

That isn’t a DDR5 world document, going by HWBot’s rankings – in actual fact it’s sixteenth place within the world rankings (on the time of writing) – however all of the quicker speeds attained used the likes of liquid nitrogen cooling.

The important thing level right here is that simply air cooling was used, with a fan pointing on the reminiscence (and water cooling for the CPU). In different phrases, this was a standard PC (properly, virtually – it was regular by way of the parts, however not the configuration, and we’ll come again to that in a second).

As G.Talent tells us: “Beforehand, reaching the DDR5-12000 milestone required a extra excessive cooling methodology, akin to liquid nitrogen or dry ice. These unimaginable achievements with air cooling reveal the superb overclock potential of contemporary {hardware}.”

The document was achieved with a single 24GB stick of RAM from a Trident Z5 DDR5-8000 CL38 2 x 24GB equipment. Velocity.quickest ran that reminiscence module in a PC with an Intel Core Extremely 9 285K processor and an Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard.

A separate try from one other overclocker, this time it was ‘saltycroissant’ based mostly in Canada, reached 12,050MT/s, once more on air cooling, with the identical RAM module (in an ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF motherboard this time).

Evaluation: Nonetheless impractical, however very cool

In case you have been considering of attempting this at dwelling, or getting someplace up in direction of this stage, as VideoCardz factors out, whereas that is air cooling and nothing fancy is used to juice up the DDR5 to unimaginable speeds, there’s a catch. Particularly that the CPU is operating only a single core at 400MHz, which clearly wouldn’t be any good in any real-world use situation.

So, whereas there’s no unique cooling wanted, this nonetheless stays an achievement which isn’t helpful in a sensible sense – save for exhibiting the overall overclocking potential of DDR5 in an Arrow Lake system, which stays critically spectacular. Group Blue definitely has a win on its fingers in that respect, even when the Arrow Lake launch has been, shall we embrace, lower than ultimate (particularly given the backdrop of previous-gen instability points).

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