Memory-maker Kingston decided to put on a little spectacle for the crowds while hanging out at GamesCom last week. With the help of two world-renowned overclockers and a little liquid-nitrogen, the team managed to push a memory-kit to 3,068MHz, breaking the world frequency record.
The feat was achieved using a 2GB (2x1GB) kit of Kingston's HyperX 2,333MHz DDR3 RAM on a Gigabyte P55 motherboard with an Intel Core i7 870 CPU. Despite the amazing speeds, the memory was kept at relatively tight timings of 8-11-8-31, though it required a staggering 1.88V to maintain stable operation.
Of course, such high speeds demand some extreme cooling. Using liberal amounts of liquid nitrogen, the overclockers managed to cool the CPU to -110°C and the memory to somewhere between -80°C and -120°C. Understandably, this required some custom hardware, which included a bright-pink foam pot for the memory.
The men behind the magic were overclocking experts Benjamin Bioux (‘Benji Tshi') and Jean-Baptiste Gerard ('marmott'). According to Gerard, "we are absolutely thrilled by the speed of this module. We knew this module had a lot of potential, but being able to push it that far and break the record for memory frequency even surprised me".
Photos of the event - which attracted an impressive crowd - are available from Kingston's Flickr stream, while full details of the settings used can be found in marmott's write-up.
