The previous CORSAIR
Dominator platinum 3400 Kit
we reviewed a couple of issue
ago illustrated this point
perfectly. Where one order
of DIMMs fails to complete
even the first five loops of
Hyper Pi 32M, the reverse
order passes and completes
this test time and time again.
Naturally, these errors could
very well be picked
up by Memtest, but I stand
firm in the belief that if any
memory setting is stable for
all your chosen applications,
games and performance
benchmarks, then it is of no
relevance if the system is
Memtest or Prime95 stable.
With the already high
frequency at which this kit
operates, there was never
going to be much room for
overclocking while keeping to
the sane 1.35 to 1.45V range.
Of course the memory could
handle well into the 1.75V
range and beyond with
appropriate cooling (LN2). The
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purpose here was to walk the
fine line between competitive
performance (within the
amateur ranks of the
competition scene of course)
and game stability. With that
said, gaming performance is
in no way affected by memory
performance above say
2400MHz. We overclock not
out of necessity, but because
we simply choose too.
To that end, the most
feasible overclocked
frequency with this particular
CPU was 3,867MHz. Yes it
is only 267MHz higher than
the rated frequency, but do
keep in mind that the memory
managed this frequency with
all four DIMMs installed.
The memory clocking didn’t
improve much with only
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