Shortly after MSI’s OC team set a new DDR5 clock speed record, Gigabyte broke it. The overclocker Hicookie was able to overclock a DDR5 bar with nitrogen cooling to 5,011 MHz (DDR5-10022) and thus set a new world record.
Last week, MSI broke the world overclocking record for RAM by running a DDR5 bar at DDR5-10004, which is 5002MHz. However, this value was not unbeaten for long: In the meantime, even higher clock rates have been achieved by the overclocker Hicookie, who works together with Gigabyte.
Hardly practical
As with MSI, the test setup from Gigabyte was hardly practical. For the OC experiment, a Gigabyte Z690 Aorus Tachyon was used as the mainboard, on which an Intel Core i9-12900K was installed. However, this was clocked down to just under 2.1 GHz and, as with MSI, only two cores were activated. In addition, the processor and the installed RAM module – a gigabyte bar with DDR5-4800 – had to be cooled with nitrogen for the OC experiment.
This effort was obviously worth it: the end result is impressive with DDR5-10022. This is particularly true with regard to the timings, because these were still relatively low with the installed module. While MSI operated the installed RAM bar with CL72-126-126-126-127-2, the timings CL46-58-58-46-104-2 were enough for Gigabyte’s new record. For comparison: this currently most popular DDR5 kit in the PCGH price comparison runs with CL36-36-36-76 and DDR5-5600.
The background: RAM overclocking: MSI brings Kingston bars to DDR5-10004
It remains to be seen whether MSI will try to break the record again in the next few days. In any case, the record value of DDR5-10022 should not remain valid for too long, because at the moment relatively early DDR5 chips are still being installed on the bars. In the coming months and years there should be further improvements here, which will probably allow significantly higher clock rates.
Source: CPU-Z validator / HW Bot via Videocardz / tech powerup
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