Overclocking the DARK Pro '8 Pack Edition' was a fun and enjoyable experience on the Ryzen platform. We are working with the Crosshair VI Hero motherboard which proved to be a great overclocking motherboard previously, along with the Ryzen 7 1800X CPU. Out the box, we had no problems running the CPU with the C14 3200MHz XMP setting. Taking it up a gear, we found that this memory kit could run with timings of 14-14-14-14-32-58-1T up to 3333MHz before needing to move to the C16 band. The 1800X held 3466MHz fine at 16-16-16-16-36-62-1T no problem (all running with 1.35V) and could boot with C16 3600MHz, but proved to be unstable in testing. Despite our efforts to get 3600MHz stable with various voltages and timings, this is the limitation of our 1800X CPU. We did however test this memory with the latest Ryzen 3 1300X CPU, and found that it held 3600MHz 16-18-18-18-38-72-1T, and 3722MHz 18-18-18-18-38-78-1T no problem, though this seemed like the absolute limit for the 1300X chip despite trying to boot in with 3866MHz.




Resident overclocker at OCUK '8 Pack' shared with us some of his endeavours with the X299 platform and the Z270 platform, reaching an impressive 3722MHz in quad-channel configuration, and the blazingly fast 4133MHz when paired with the i7 7700K CPU, proving how flexible this kit is.