Overclocking on the X79 chipset is made a little easier thanks to baseclock overclocking. Overclocking the baseclock will also increase memory frequency since the two are inherently linked. So for the purposes of our benchmark comparisons we will stick to the tried and tested method of memory divider overclocking along with adjusting timings.



As you can see from the CPU-z screenshots above, the G.SKILL weighs in with a healthy 9-10-9-28 2T set of timings with X.M.P profile enabled.


As I suspected, the memory easily surpassed the 2GHz mark although the timings had to be slackened off a little (10-11-10-32) to to achieve this. vDIMM also had to be increased to 1.6v which should still be low enough not to damage the memory integrated chips.

Overall then, not a bad showing from G.SKILL. Unfortunately lowering the timings from CAS 9 to 8 resulted in a none boot scenario even with 1.7v being pushed through the DIMM's which was a shame but I am content that the modules aforded a 14.3% increase which is not to be scoffed at at this level of frequency.

Let's see how this kit performs at both X.M.P and overclocked (OC) settings...