Overclocking
Overclocking is never guaranteed so the presented results may vary from results on other memory kits. I am not recommending overclocking if you do not know what are you doing. High voltages may damage hardware and it will not be covered by warranty.
For overclocking has been used the same ASUS Maximus VIII Hero motherboard as for other tests. As we already mentioned earlier, tested Ripjaws V memory is based on the most popular right now Samsung IC. In this case we can count on high frequency but not really tight timings what for Skylake platform doesn’t matter so much.
Maximum fully stable result possible on tested memory was DDR4-3200 at pretty tight for this memory capacity 16-16-16-36 main timings and 1.35V memory voltage. I think it’s quite good result considering it’s 2x8GB memory kit. 2x4GB kits, which are more than enough for most gamers, are overclocking better but more often 16GB RAM helps in other applications.
Below we can see HyperPi 32M test at mentioned DDR4-3200 CL16 settings.
Here is also maximum achieved frequency DDR4-3333 at not so bad 16-18-18-38 main timings. These settings were not fully stable, even though were passing most, even more demanding tests. It doesn’t mean that stabilizing it isn’t possible. I assume that we only need more time to check additional timings and other settings.
Since used memory chips are similar to those which are in DDR4-3200 kits then probably our readers will have some more luck and will be able to set higher frequency on 2x8GB Ripjaws V DDR4-3000 memory kit.
In general it’s hard not to be satisfied by Ripjaws V DDR4-3000 overclocking potential. Even if we won’t decide on overclocking then XMP settings are one of the better on the market for 2x8GB memory kits.
