AVEXIR Blitz 1.1
1600MHz DDR3 8GB Kit
RRP: $129.99 | Website: www.avexir.com
Test Machine
•
•
•
•
INTEL Core i7 4770K
GIGABYTE Z87X-OC (F8)
INTEL 730 480GB SSD
Cooler Master Silent Pro M2
1500W
• Windows 7 64-bit SP1
S
ingle sided Hnyix MFR
memory. What could
anyone possibly want
from such sticks? Moreover,
they are 1600MHz sticks as
well. Surely these are not for
the discerning overclocking
who demands nothing but
the best hardware and is
more than likely willing to
pay or at the very least bin
for such parts.
Well, that is the theory
anyway and something
that we wish was true for
every overclocker out there
regardless of experience or
capability and perhaps even
resources. Sadly this isn’t
the case and the truth is that
most beginners and people
22 The OverClocker Issue 29 | 2014
just getting into overclocking
can only afford memory at
this price and lower. A lot
of us who may have gone on
to LN2 overclocking started
this on our gaming machines
which would more times
than not have memory at this
price rather than the high
end 2600Mhz and higher kits
we take for granted.
With this AVEXIR Blitz
1.1 1600 MHz kit, upon
discovering that it is MFR,
we immediately set about
trying to see just how far we
could push the memory. It is
only the most obvious thing
to try and do given that not
too long ago, the only thing
we did with Haswell CPUs
and motherboards was push
memory clock frequencies.
This is where we were able
to reach speeds of just over
2500MHz for the kit. That
is mighty impressive for
budget 1600MHz DIMMs.
That’s almost 1GHz above
the standard clock speed
without the use of LN2.
However, that speed was
anything but stable and
thus we settled for the
frequencies you see in the
table above. Timings could
be run relatively tight at
1600MHz but that frequency
was never going to satisfy
the systems need for more
bandwidth, thus the best
performance is going to be at
2133MHz even though some
sacrifices have to be made to
the primary timings. You’re
not going to get much more
by tuning secondary timings
on this kit and even with a
low TWCL setting, you’ll only
introduce instability so that
avenue is lost to you.
Given that you can buy
fairly generic 2133MHz
memory kits from just
about anywhere. You may be
wondering why anyone would
settle for the AVEXIR Blitz
set for this kind of spend.
The answer may seem
ridiculous but it’s purely
because this is amongst the
best looking sets of memory
you can buy. In fact, we
would wager that these are