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Overclocking will understandably be very much dependent upon luck of the draw with your individual kit. As such, we don’t assign too much weight to the overclocking results that we see with a sample size of one. There’s no harm in a quick tinker though.
In terms of overclocking, we saw reasonable improvement by the Thermaltake memory kit in terms of frequency achieved.
With the memory voltage on our Intel Z690 test system set at 1.45V, we managed to push memory speed up to 4000MHz using the stock XMP timings of 18-19-19-39. This is a reasonable increase in frequency, though not outstanding for a single-rank 2x8GB kit.
If you have an AMD system that can do 2GHz FCLK, or an Intel system that is happy with 2000MHz tie-in clocks, the 4GHz overclock of our kit could be welcomed.
Sticking with the stock frequency of 3600MHz – but still with DRAM voltage increase to 1.45V – we aimed to enhance the latency of the timings. The best result that we got was 17-18-18-39, which represents a 1 cycle improvement on the three main clocks.
This is fine. But once again, the overclocking performance is certainly not spectacular for our sample of a kit of this market segment.
We also tried to run the improved timings with higher DRAM frequencies, but the kit did not like that overclock. So, 3600MHz with slightly tightened timings or 4000MHz with stock latencies were our main results.
