"It
is most peculiar that the LEDs
on the fans are not a matching
orange, so as to complete the
look and create uniformity with
the motherboard. You will most
certainly want to use the coolers
however as the memory does get
particularly warm. Thanks in part
to the narrow spacing between
DIMM sockets on the intended
SOC-Champion motherboard. "
hand), often taking anything
from hours to days to find the
right combination and order.
With this CORSAIR set, the
3333MHz results needed
a different order than the
timings used for 3,400MHz.
Attempting to run 3333MHz
at 15-15-16-36-1T would fail
if the memory was kept in
the exact same order that
was necessary to achieve
3,477MHz at 16-15-16-36-1T.
The opposite of that being
true as well. Thus, it was
imperative in this the testing
of this memory to exhaust
all possible combinations of
the DIMMs and it is in all this
testing that you see the results
in the charts. Throughout
different BIOS versions and
even on other boards that were
able to operate this memory at
the given 3,400MHz frequency.
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The order in which the DIMMS
had to be installed was
consistent. Which suggests
that the IMC responds best to a
particular order of DIMMs and
it is not related in any way to
the motherboard or firmware
version.
With that said, we come
to the results where you’ll note
that there aren't any 3,400MHz
numbers. An odd set of results
to omit, but consider that
you’re purchasing a $999 set of
memory. One is unlikely going
to operate the memory at the
default frequency.
More importantly, the given
3,400MHz clock means that
your particular CPU and
Uncore overclock may be
disturbed. Since all memory
tests are performed with a
CPU clock of 4000MHz and an
Uncore clock of 4000MHz, it
would be impossible to keep
those settings consistent
without introducing CPU clock
variations thus rendering the
results less than reliable, or at
the very least not an indication
of how performance scales
with frequency. With the memory
clock at 3,478MHz right down
to 3,200MHz, a 4GHz CPU and
Uncore clocks were kept, but
at 3,500MHz that had to change
to 4,020MHz
(23x105MHz). If you’re asking
yourself why not use the next
memory divider (21.33 with
1.66x strap) the reason is the
system simply couldn’t do
3,555MHz regardless of the
voltage. In single channel
mode, of course higher
frequencies are possible,
but for most users outside
of the elite or professional
overclockers there’s little to