Overclocking

Whilst we will be showing stock performance for the Samsung Green DDR3 kit, we also want to know how far we can push this kit in terms of overclocking. Rather than working our way up from 1600MHz (which is the stock frequency) I decided to do the opposite and jump straight to 2400MHz, slacken the CAS timings off and bump DRAM voltage up to 1.7v. Straight away I hit a brick wall. No matter what settings I used at 2400MHz I simply could not even get a solid boot so I moved down to 2200MHz. With this frequency the system was extremely unstable and struggled to get past POST (even with a significant boost in voltage) so I eventually came to 2133MHz and here I found stability. So with a boot into windows and stability test complete I began improving the settings at 2133MHz, lowering the voltage and tweaking the CAS timings until I eventually came to 1T-10-10-10-28 2133MHz @ 1.4v – which is quite an achievement for a 1600MHz kit.



So with the best overclock, modification now found – we will benchmark this kit with both stock and overclocked settings to demonstrate the performance results