14 DAY TRIAL // Each year, many things occur at Gamescom, but this once there seems to be cause for awe as a pair of overclockers apparently managed to break DDR3 speed records by taking Kingston's 2,333 MHz HyperX KHX2333C9D3T1K3 kit and overclocking it to 3,068 MHz.
Not long ago, there was an update on the status of DDR4, revealing the speed limits and the fact that it will supposedly only start being mass-produced in 2015.
According to the report, JEDEC set 4,266 MHz as the upper clock limit, and while this may seem monumental, it is not so far from the speed at which Gamescom overclockers managed to push DDR3.
What occurred was that overclockers Benjamin 'Benji Tshi' Bioux and Jean-Baptiste 'marmott' Gerard broke the previous record on DDR3 frequency.
What they did was take the Kingston HyperX KHX2333C9D3T1K3 kit, with a base frequency of 2,333 MHz, and pushed it all the way up to 3,086 MHz.
This feat was possible on a system that used a Gigabyte GA-P55-UD6 motherboard as a platform, while an Intel Core i7-870 central processing unit (CPU) did the heavy lifting.
What's more, the storage unit was a Kingston solid state drive of 512GB and the ATI Radeon HD 5670 graphics card handled the video side.
Needless to say, the procedure involved a substantial quantity of liquid nitrogen, mostly necessary to keep the heat of the CPU under control (it operated at 4347.39 MHz).
"We are absolutely thrilled by the speed of this module. We knew this module had a lot of potential, but being able to push it that far and break the record for memory frequency even surprised me," Gerard reportedly said.
A special note should probably be given to the fact that, despite the high clock and equally high voltage (1.88V), the kit still stuck to fairly impressive timings of 8-11-8-31. Kingston was quick to add photos of this success to its Flickr stream.