BIOS Settings
Notice the Crucial ram booted in to the BIOS default speed of DDR4-2133. This I found strange.
During our configuration to enable XMP profiles 2.0 … the DRAM voltage jumped up 0.01v from 1.35v to 1.36v. While BCLK speed which is normally 100 increased to 125Mhz.
Test Bench
For our tests, we used a test bench containing an ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer 3.1 motherboard with supports quad channel memory. Along with and Intel Core i7 – 6800K (Broadwell-E) and a HIS Radeon RX 480 graphics card.
* ALL tests are conducted at specified default speeds and setting
| CPU | Intel Core i7-6800K @ 3.4GHz |
| Cooling | XSPC RayStorm Pro CPU waterblock |
| Motherboard | ASRock Fatal1ty X99X Killer 3.1 |
| Ram | Crucial Ballistix Elite 16GB DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory Kit (4x4GB) |
| XMP 2.0 profiles | Memory timings : 15-16-16-35 @1.35v |
| HDD | Crucial MX300 – 750GB |
| PSU | Thermaltake Toughpower DSP G RGB 750W |
| VGA card | HIS Radeon RX 480 Roaring Turbo 8GB GDDR5 |
| Watercooling |
Thermaltake Pacific RL240 D5 watercooling kit |
Aida64 Memory Information
Notice the voltage of the memory modules. It’s operating at 1.35v which seem a little high. Most DDR4 modules I’ve come across operate at a lower voltage of 1.2v.
Aida64 DRAM Timings
Memory timings are running as advertised at 15-16-16-35 with XMP profiles 2.0.
