14 DAY TRIAL // Makers of memory products have been playing with the higher limits of DDR3 clocks for some time now, but it is professional overclockers that truly make such devices shine, and it seems that Corsair's Dominator GTX6 has just broken two world records in the hands of a certain Matthias Zronek.
Some time ago, Corsair caused veritable waves on the enthusiast market when it presented the DDR3 with a clock of 2,625 MHz.
Now, the same company is proud to announce that a certain, fairly renowned extreme overclocker known as Matthias Zronek, nicknamed Mat, pushed the Dominator GT GTX6 DDR3 a bit beyond the 3,000 MHz threshold.
Mat didn't even settle for just one record, going ahead and shattering two of them with the same configuration and products.
What this means is that he drove the two Dominator GT CMGTX6 modules to over 3,000 MHz on both CAS 7 and CAS 8 latencies.
“I've worked with the Corsair Dominator GT memory for quite some time now, and can easily say that these are great memory modules, dedicated to world-record overclocking,” stated Matthias Zronek.
“What surprised me the most is the potential of the Domintator GT GTX6. Even at 3000MHz and higher frequencies, at CL7, there is still headroom for lots of optimization,” he added.
The system configuration used a Gigabyte P55A-UD7 motherboard as the platform, on which an Intel Core i7-870 CPU was placed, along with the two memory modules.
Also, the modular DHX+ technology enabled a Besi Memory-Freezer to be directly attached to the memory heatspreaders which, in turn, let the benchmarks be scored at temperatures of as low as -90 degrees C.
Naturally, said low temperatures were made possible only by the use of liquid nitrogen. The speeds attained were of 3078.2 MHz, CL8-11-8-31, 1T, and 3059.4 MHz, CL7-11-8-31, 1T.