September 15th, 2009by Rafael HernandezNo comments
With any new platform comes a whole slew of support products aimed at getting the most of the new processors and motherboards, Intel’s Core i5 and i7 CPUs are bringing about a slew of new dual channel memory products.
Here we have reached an awesome 2400MHz at CL9. It was a bit more difficult as we started running into memory and PCI-e controller limitations. We upped the volts a bit to 1.75 on the memory (from 1.65) and the QPI to 1.35 (from 1.3). This was the fastest we could reach with any sort of stability in our short time overclocking the memory. There is still much more to it for anyone willing to spend some time tweaking things!
Overclocking fiends take note, this memory seems to have plenty of headroom left but it’ll cost you.
As with any new CPU platform you’re going to need a whole host of upgrades to keep it running fast…well not just fast, the level of fastness that tweakers demand.
There’s a bit of an issue with running high speed memory on the Intel Core i7 platform. The processor’s integrated memory controller has a tough time with higher voltages those speedy DDR3 memory modules require.
Well Kingston has just announced their new HyperX DDR3 dual channel memory kits with products ranging from speeds of 1333MHz to 2133MHz all running at a cool 1.65 volts. You can pick up a set yourself starting next month.
Impressively fast and no-doubt targeted at the new Core i5 processors, unless you plan on grabbing yourself two kits for your Core i7 and having an extra memory stick laying around which, knowing the performance fiends out there, is probably what you’d do.
The old concept behind a home theater PC was to create a system that would visually fit in with the other components which usually turns into a noisey mess because you’re cooling off some power hungry components.
As far as noise goes, the system is super quiet at default settings at
around 25db. We used the ASRock EZ Overclocking feature in the BIOS to
overclock the Atom CPU from 1.6GHz to 2.1GHz and to be safe we
increased the fan speeds by using the “Overclocking” fan speed option.
This does increase the volume from the system, but it’s not that loud
and cannot even be noticed at all whilst playing a game or watching a
movie.
Overclocking, dual channel memory, well this is one of the most interesting nettop PCs since…ever.
With any new platform comes a whole slew of support products aimed at getting the most of the new processors and motherboards, Intel’s Core i5 and i7 CPUs are bringing about a slew of new dual channel memory products.
