PC gaming RAM maker G.Skill has just seen its hardware break an overclocking world record. Performed by Allen Golibersuch, better known as Splave, the new overclock saw some G.Skill Trident Z5 CK RGB memory overclocked 15MHz beyond the previous record holder.
As the maker of some of the best gaming RAM, G.Skill’s PC hardware has already broken records this year. In October, a competing overclocker, Safedisk, managed to crack 6,056MHz (12,112MT/s effective) and now, this record has been beaten again with 6,333MHz (12,666MT/s effective) being hit.
While RAM clock speed is still measured in MHz, MT/s has become the standard for DDR5 sticks. This is due to changes in how data transfer is measured, with MT standing for million transfers. To work out the MT/s to MHz, you simply need to halve it. Hence, the results on the page show 6,333MHz.
The PC used is all about raw speed, with no need for a graphics card outside of the measly Nvidia GT 1030 GPU used to display software on the monitor. Meanwhile, an ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF motherboard and Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra 9 285K CPU provided the foundations for the world record to be hit.
As with a lot of extreme overclocking endeavors, hardware alone cannot achieve these speeds; you need serious cooling too. A picture of the PC in question was posted on the HWBot website, caked in frost from freezing temperatures. While there’s no video of the event just yet, it should be assumed that liquid nitrogen was part of the party again.
In previous overclocking videos, large quantities of liquid nitrogen and cooling apparatus can be seen. There’s also often quite a lot of crashing as the limits of the hardware are reached.
More interesting is the use of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, which, outside of gaming, has been received a little more positively. It hasn’t made our best gaming CPU list, but overclockers are clearly serious about using it.