Overclocking

Out of the box we're dealing with a PC3-15000 kit which translates to 1866MHz DDR. The timings are 8-8-8-24 and A-DATA say we'll need between 1.55v and 1.75v. We opted for 1.65v due to the fact it's the maximum speed Intel recommend with the use of the i7 processor.

You can see the validation here.

It came as no surprise that we didn't run into any problems getting those speeds considering our X58 ASRock testbed has seen speeds in excess of 2200MHz DDR. Once we knew that was all good, it was time to do some overclocking.

For that we leave our memory voltage at 1.65v and the timings at the same 8-8-8-24. We then start heading north on the BCLK and mucking around with our dividers.

You can see the validation here.

When it came to overclocking we ended up with 1944MHz DDR which is a nice little overclock from the stock 1866MHz DDR. Considering we're dealing with CAS 8 memory at 1T, this isn't bad at all.

Important Editor Note: Our maximum overclocking result is the best result we managed in our limited time of testing the memory. Due to time constraints we weren't able to tweak the motherboard to the absolute maximum and find the highest possible FSB, as this could take days to find properly. We do however spend at least a few hours overclocking every motherboard to try and find the highest possible overclock in that time frame. You may or may not be able to overclock higher if you spend more time tweaking, or as new BIOS updates are released. "Burn-in" time might also come into play if you believe in that.