Kingston Memory Breaks 3GHz Barrier

During the Gamescom in Cologne, Kingston’s memory was used to set a new speed record for DDR3 memory. Two bars of HyperX memory were clocked to a speed of 3068MHz under liquid nitrogen.

The record was set last weekend during an overclocking competition in Germany, Kingston proudly says via a press release. During the Gamescon fair in Cologne, overclockers Benjamin ‘Benji Tshi’ Bioux and Jean-Baptiste ‘Marmott’ Gerard were given a dewar of liquid nitrogen and the necessary hardware for their record attempt. The bars of Kingston memory, two pieces of HyperX ddr3-2400 memory with a latency of 8, were clocked at 3068MHz.

The overclockers made usage Gigabyte’s P55-UD6 motherboard, a Core i7 870 CPU from Intel, and two slats of dual-channel HyperX memory from Kingston. The factory-declared speeds of this Elpida BDBG memory are a maximum of 2400MHz. Using an ln2 ‘pot’ made of insulating foam, the bars were cooled to about 120 degrees Celsius below zero and 1.88V was run through them. The base clock of the CPU was set to 255MHz, which with a memory divider of 2-12 was good for a clock speed of the ram of 3068MHz. The processor, with a vcore and vtt of 1.328 and 1.58V respectively, ran with a multiplier of 17x at a fairly modest 4374MHz.