G.Skill TridentX F3-2666C11D-8GTXD DDR3-2666 Preview

[Eldonko]

Few pics:





Testing will be in GENE review going live in a few days.

[Leeghoofd]

You tease :p

[Eldonko]

Not really, IMC caps at 2800 so there will be just different variations of that lol. Loosening to 11-14-14 or 12-14-14 does nothing and cold just give a few mhz so there is nothing more I can do with this chip. 2800 is still pretty sweet though

[Leeghoofd]

Give them to Hookie, he'll show you 3000 Zack


But I can feel your pain , one CPU topping at crappy 2600Mhz, other one similar to yours just over 2800...

[Pt1t]

Good kit, i can hit 2900++ on air with XE4 board.

[nickshih]

2800 1T CL11 13 13 4dimm is working well on new Asrock mobo now .

[mikecdm]

I have the 2600 kit, clocks about similar to these other ones. I don't think imc likes more than 2800 though, maybe just a tad over.

[hokiealumnus]

Both are looking great Nick & Mike!

[theix]

I have the 2600 kit, clocks about similar to these other ones. I don't think imc likes more than 2800 though, maybe just a tad over.

Can you post the pic of your 2600 C10 kit? I'd like to see the first 8 digits of the S/N. It should indicate if it's Samsung or Hynix.

[mikecdm]

Can you post the pic of your 2600 C10 kit? I'd like to see the first 8 digits of the S/N. It should indicate if it's Samsung or Hynix.

My kit is 0360, samsung.

[Don_Dan]

Thanks for posting the info!

How much higher can you go for a validation?

[Dumo]

Got a 2800 kit



Quick run @ 3000

[Eldonko]

Nice Dumo. Have you tested a variety of chips yet? How much of a difference are you seeing in IMC?

[Don_Dan]

Nice work Dumo!

[Dumo]

Nice Dumo. Have you tested a variety of chips yet? How much of a difference are you seeing in IMC?

Got a few retail 3770K to test. So far (1) can boot 2700 4X4 air, it seems 2800+ will be kinda hard

Nice work Dumo!

Thanks Don, s/n 00000 so I guess it must be samsung

[Eldonko]

Ok cool I figured you had a few heh. Please report how the IMCs are, there arent enough results out there yet to have an idea of what to expect on average. My chip maxes @ 2800ish but Ive seen some others (like yours) at 3000+.

[Dumo]

It'll be fun try to find high imc retail 3770K...on top of finding 6.5Ghz+ cold chip

[pazza316]

Retail 3570K my best DDR3 Overclock with TridentX 2666mhz Kit on ASUS MVG. DDR3133.

[hiwa]

not air i hope

[hokiealumnus]

+1. What voltages were you pushing? My sticks won't quite make it to 3000 on air.

[Eldonko]

1.832v vcore? why?

[trans am]

Retail 3570K my best DDR3 Overclock with TridentX 2666mhz Kit on ASUS MVG. DDR3133.

3.7 at 1.8 vcore?

[Gunslinger]

Saw 23 on 1 of 3 retail 3570K's tonight.

So based on the below serial numbers, are these 2x the same IC's ?

[Hondacity]

240 is hynix
260 is hynix im guessing...
360 is samsung...

[theix]

It's Hynix I guess.
You can tell without yanking the heatspreader by looking at the bottom of the chip.