DFI UT X58-T3EH8 continued - Part 2

[Sam_oslo]

High MEM speed is cool for testing&benching, but it is not exactly the sweet spot for 24/7. My sticks can run stable at 2150MHZ CL9 with much better benching numbers, but it needs a good deal more VVT to run stable for 24/7.

I had a hard time to track the effect of high RAM speed on my daily applications, but it is cool to run on the edge with x5 MEM, just for the heck of it. The only problem is that x5 RAM is far from the sweet spot for total 24/7 OC.

In my experience and on my setup, the 1.32v VVT needed for stability of x5 MEM puts 3 degrees on CPU and 5 degrees on PWM/temp, both at Idle. This extra heat saved on a 1.2v VVT for x4 MEM can be used for better OC on CPU, for sure. So it is safe to say that running MEM at x5 is not exactly the sweet spot for 24/7, at least on my setup.