Subj : G.Skill DDR5 RAM is overclocked to a blazing 12,054MT/s with no l To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Tue Jan 21 2025 18:00:07 G.Skill DDR5 RAM is overclocked to a blazing 12,054MT/s with no liquid nitrogen needed just air cooling Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:25:37 +0000 Description: DDR5 overclock using air cooling is seriously impressive, albeit with a slight catch. FULL STORY ======================================================================G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 was overclocked to 6027MHz or 12,054MT/s That was achieved using just air cooling, with no need for liquid nitrogen There is, however, a catch (of sorts) in how the CPU was configured G.Skill has again been setting records with its DDR5 RAM , this time with a seriously impressive overclock that doesnt use any exotic cooling. This feat was achieved using G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 by an expert overclocker from Indonesia, a certain speed.fastest, who managed to crank the RAM up to 6027MHz (or 12,054MT/s). That isnt a DDR5 world record, going by HWBots rankings in fact its 16th place in the global rankings (at the time of writing) but all the faster speeds attained used the likes of liquid nitrogen cooling . The key point here is that just air cooling was used, with a fan pointing at the memory (and water cooling for the CPU). In other words, this was a normal PC (well, almost it was normal in terms of the components, but not the configuration, and well come back to that in a moment). As G.Skill tells us : Previously, reaching the DDR5-12000 milestone required a more extreme cooling method, such as liquid nitrogen or dry ice. These incredible achievements with air cooling demonstrate the amazing overclock potential of modern hardware. The record was achieved with a single 24GB stick of RAM from a Trident Z5 DDR5-8000 CL38 2 x 24GB kit. Speed.fastest ran that memory module in a PC with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor and an Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard. A separate attempt from another overclocker, this time it was saltycroissant based in Canada, reached 12,050MT/s, again on air cooling, with the same RAM module (in an ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF motherboard this time). (Image credit: Shutterstock) Analysis: Still impractical, but very cool In case you were thinking of trying this at home, or getting somewhere up towards this level, as VideoCardz points out, while this is air cooling and nothing fancy is used to juice up the DDR5 to incredible speeds, there is a catch. Namely that the CPU is running just a single core at 400MHz, which obviously wouldnt be any good in any real-world use scenario. So, while theres no exotic cooling needed, this still remains an achievement which isnt useful in a practical sense save for showing the general overclocking potential of DDR5 in an Arrow Lake system, which remains seriously impressive. Team Blue certainly has a win on its hands in that respect, even if the Arrow Lake launch has been, shall we say, less than ideal (especially given the backdrop of previous-gen instability issues ). You may also like... AMD blames Ryzen 9800X3D stock shortage on Intels horrible Arrow Lake launch Crucial Pro Overclocking DDR5 review: fantastic performance for the (current) price Top gaming PCs: great rigs for serious PC gaming ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/computing-components/g-skill-ddr5-ram-is-o verclocked-to-a-blazing-12-054mt-s-no-liquid-nitrogen-needed-just-air-cooling- incredibly --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .