Lots people care about the ability of memory overclocking with Z77 chipset now .

Just tried some memory modules what i have .

3100Mhz 1T is available with upcoming Asrock Z77 mobo under air cooling .

2933 memory ratio is bootable under aircooling .

But if u want to boot from 3000 memory ratio , u have to put cpu under cold . It will be much easier .

I am talking about the maxmium memory frequency , so loosing the third party subtiming for sure .





Testing hardware


CPU : 3770k ES
Mobo : Asrock Z77 ??????
Ram : Gskill Trident X 2666 & Team Group 2800




1. 2800 Hyperpi 32M passed , CL11 13 13 35 1T 1.66V

not every 2666 kits can do 2800 hyperpi 32M with 1.66v only , some of mine need 1.7~1.75







2. Maximum 4dimm 3070 CL11 13 13 35 1T 1.8V with my kits , 3080~3090 is hard to capture screen under air cooling







3. I only have 2 pcs good teamgroup 2800 module , it can do 3100 CL11 13 13 35 1T under aircooling .







Ivy bridge has very strong IMC of memory overclocking . U can do 2800 easily if ur memory module is capable of it .

Comparing the overclocking ability of 1dimm, 2dimm , 3dimm ,4dimm , which almost has none of difference on this Asrock upcoming mobo.

But the 2800 modules seems very limited , because of the failed rate of memory chips is very high .

It is sad that i sold my old BBSE and PSC chips . It is time to look for it again .