Gigabyte is making a name for itself on the overclocking scene with its Z890 Aorus Tachyon Ice. This so-called ‘XOC’ motherboard is a model designed for overclocking in extreme conditions, and is particularly playful when it comes to memory. This time, a frequency of 12,726 MT/s has been reached!
The Z890 Aorus Tachyon Ice pushes DDR5 to 12,726 MT/s!
The programme features this famous motherboard in the hands of Taiwanese clocker Hicookie. Hicookie set a new world record for RAM frequency by pushing its V-Color Manta XFinity RGB kit to a frequency of 12,726 MT/s. To reach such a high frequency, he used liquid nitrogen for cooling – at least that’s what’s stated on the record page on HWBot! Nevertheless, to achieve such a high frequency, he pushed the RAM timings to 68-127-127-127-2T.
The processor was a Core Ultra 9 285K. During the exercise, it only ran on 2 cores and 2 threads, all at an excessively low frequency of 419.57 MHz. Remember that the record CPU frequency is 9.12 GHz. What’s more, the reason why overclockers apply such low frequencies to so few cores is to maximise the processor’s stability in order to validate RAM overclocking. The processor was also cooled with liquid nitrogen.
As for the card itself, the Z890 Aorus Tachyon Ice, it has all the features needed to run under cold conditions and perform extreme overclocking. What’s more, this model benefits from an original layout with two memory slots positioned above the socket and horizontally to maximise airflow in a PC case, for example… Although this type of card is most often used on a benchtop.
