When you think of extreme overclocking, a common theme is the use of liquid nitrogen to bring the temperatures way down to keep the electronics stable. This attempt to overclock G.Skill’s DDR5 memory uses room temperature air and managed to reach an astounding overclock of 12,054MT/s.
G.Skill Takes Home Another Record
In the announcement post, G.Skill says its Trident Z5 DDR5-8000 CL38 48GB module was used on two separate overclocking attempts from two different teams, one led by Canada-based ‘saltycroissant’ and another by Indonesia-based ‘speed.fastest”. Both uses one single module for the attempts.
The former’s motherboard of choice is the ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF with Intel Core Ultra 7 265K processor, achieving 12,050MT/s overclock on air cooling; while the latter picks ASUS’s ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard paired with Intel’s top chip, the Core Ultra 9 285K, to hit 12,054MT/s – a new record for air-cooled setups. Both motherboards are designed for overclocking use, which make them slightly less practical for daily driving due to their overclocking-focused configurations.
For reference, the all-time memory overclock record today is 12,697MT/s, which is only a bit higher than the air-cooled attempts despite relying on liquid nitrogen cooling. It’s also worth noting that the module used in both attempts are the traditional DDR5 modules, not the CUDIMM variants that enables better stability at higher clock speeds – which is quite impressive on its own right.
Pokdepinion: Impressive feats.
