ADATA 8GB 2000 XPG DDR3 Memory Review Version 2.0 (AX3U2000GC4G9B-DG2)

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The ADATA 2000mhz Gaming memory arrives in a colourful, tough plastic container which offers good protection during shipping. One of the sticks is positioned at the rear of the box, with space for a third. This means the same packaging can be used for X58 triple memory configurations.

ADATA have opted for a smaller heatspreader size, which we like because they can be used under the more substantial CPU heatsinks, such as the Noctua NH D14. They operate at 9-11-9 timings with a programmed profile of 2,000mhz.

ADATA are using Hynix H5TQ2G83BFR-H9C memory which is 44nm DDR3 featuring a decreased chip size via copper implemented triple metal layer and WN barrier metal techniques. This Hynix memory offers fully synchronous operations referenced to both rising and falling edges of the clock. While all addresses and control inputs are latched on the rising edges of the CK (falling edges of the CK), Data, Data strobes and Write data masks inputs are sampled on both rising and falling edges of it. The data paths are internally pipelined and 8-bit prefetched to achieve very high bandwidth.

The heatspreaders are held together with two small screws and an adhesive backing. They are easily removed. The black PCB underneath looks great.

For testing today, we are using the Sapphire Pure Black P67 Hydra motherboard which we reviewed a few weeks ago.

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The Sapphire board detects 2 XMP profiles with the ADATA memory, however it sets both of them up wrongly at 931mhz – or 1862mhz effective. By simply altering the frequency, we we able to manually configure the ram to 2000mhz at 9-11-9-1T timings. We had to manually set voltage to 1.65, for complete stability.

With this particular motherboard we were able to overclock the memory to 2090mhz at the same timings, any higher would result in instability, causing a CMOS reset. Loosening the timings didn't result in a substantially better overclock, gaining only another 15mhz with worse performance results.

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