During this year CeBIT, which has taken place last week, our overclocker Hiwa managed to reach astonishingly high memory frequencies using G.Skill memory modules. This time he put his hands on a 64 Gigabyte, 32 Gigabyte and 16 Gigabyte quad channel memory kits and overclocked them way above 2'700 MHz.

Regarding the motherboard Hiwa was using a Rampage IV Extreme from ASUS. For the CPU he put a Core i7-3960X into the system. With this setup he was able to reach 1357.4 MHz (effective 2'714.8 MHz). If you keep in mind that overclocking single or dual channel kits is much easier and allows a lot more headroom, then this result really is impressive. Of course these frequency could only be reached when cooling the memory kit as well as the CPU with liquid nitrogen. Therefore the memory operating temperature was below -180°C to get even the last bit of performance out of these modules.

Regarding the 32 Gigabyte Kit Hiwa managed stable Hyper PI runs at 2'701.4 MHz. The 64 Gigabyte Kit (8 x 8 Gigabyte) did the job until 2'600 MHz. Astonishing, that's what the latencies are. Above 2'600 MHz it's quite common that you can see CL13 timings but Hiwa managed these frequencies with CL10 timings regarding the 16 Gigabyte Kit and CL11 timings concerning the 32 Gigabyte and 64 Gigabyte kit.

At this point it is time for some screenshots:

64 GB 2600 MHz CPU-Z	64 GB SuperPi 1m 2'555 MHz
32 GB 2700 MHz Hyper PI	16 GB 2715 MHz Hyper PI