MSI has just shattered the world record for a DDR4 overclock using its MSI MPG Z390I Gaming Edge AC motherboard. The overclock was performed by MSI’s in-house overclocker, Toppic who verified his results by submitting them as a CPU-Z validation.
The memory used was a single 8GB stick of DDR4-2400 (KHX4266C19D4/8GX). At this point it’s difficult to say which is more impressive, the motherboard or the RAM used. Even though this overclock was performed on an MSI board props to Kingston as well.
All we know about the cooling solution was that Liquid Nitrogen was involved. It’s a shame MSI didn’t publish any pictures of the setup. Here’s a list of the parts and specs used:
Processor Specs
CPU Name: Intel Core™ i9-9900K CPU @ 3.60GHz
Threading: 1 CPU – 2 Core – 2 Threads
Frequency: 816.02 MHz (8 * 102 MHz) – Uncore: 816 MHz
Multiplier: Current: 8 / Min: 8 / Max: 50
Architecture: Coffee Lake / Stepping: P0 / Technology: 14 nm
TDP / Vcore: 95 Watts / 0.67 Volts
Type: Engineering Sample
Cores Frequencies: #00: 816.02 MHz #01: 816.02 MHz
Motherboard Specs
Motherboard Model: MSI MPG Z390I GAMING EDGE AC (MS-7C04)
Socket: Socket 1151 LGA
North Bridge: Intel Coffee Lake rev 0A
South Bridge: Intel Z390 rev 10
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. T.37 (01/08/2019)
Memory Specs
Memory (RAM): Total Size: 8192 MB
Type: Single Channel (64 bit) DDR4-SDRAM
Frequency: 2804.4 MHz (DDR4-5608) – Ratio 1:55
Timings: 31-31-31-63-3 (tCAS-tRC-tRP-tRAS-tCR)
Slot #1 Module: Kingston 8192 MB (DDR4-2400) – XMP 2.0 – P/N: KHX4266C19D4/8GX
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