SUPER TALENT
STT DDR3 2200 4GB CL8
Hardware Award
RRP: $225
Website: http://www.supertalent.com/products/overclock_memory_intel.php?reg=N&mtid=5&type=Core i5
Test Machine
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Intel Core i7 980X (ES)
Gigabyte X58-UD7 (rev1.0)
NVIDIA Geforce GTX460
OCZ Agility II 60GB SSD
Thermaltake Toughpower
1.5KW
• Windows 7 64-Bit
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here performance DDR
memory is concerned,
Super Talent is no stranger
as the company has over the
years produced some notable
kits and the WS220UX4G8 is
one such kit. Super Talent
kits usually retail at a more
affordable price than the
competitors but this shouldn’t
make you think they the
memory if of a lesser quality.
With the WS220UX4G8,
Super Talent has produced
a noteworthy set featuring
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the best of both worlds.
Specifically tuned for the P55
platform and it’s often more
flexible memory configuration
when compared to the X58
platform this is amongst the
fastest sets you can buy on
the market. Any set being sold
at 2,200MHz with CL8-8-8-24
timings is a noteworthy kit and
not surprisingly this set didn’t
disappoint.
Analysis
Initially we had thought about
making 100MHz increments
starting from 1600MHZ
however, given that we knew
that these were ELPIDA
HYPER ICs there was no need
for such as clearly evident by
the 1800MHZ timings that we
achieved at this frequency.
While this set is optimized
or rather sold as a P55
platform set, we used an
X58 motherboard and CPU, if
only to illustrate that this set
would work equally well on
both platforms. The maximum
speed we could reach with the
RAM at 6-6-6-18 timings was
1840MHz, regardless of the
voltage applied to the memor y
or V T T/QPI. Given how happy
we were with the C6 results,
we moved on to CL7 which
we’d like to believe offers
the best balance between
frequency and timings. At this
speed the maximum speed
we could reach was 2070MHz
which was great even though
we had hoped for 2,100MHz.
Indeed we could POST
and boot into Windows at
2,100MHz, the system was not
able to complete a SuperPi 1M
run let alone the 32M which
is what all the settings in the