G.Skill Pushes Pedal to the Metal, Sets Another DDR4 Frequency Record

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G.Skill Ripjaws 4 memory kit hits 4355MHz

You know that friend of yours that can't help but to go over the speed limit at every opportunity? That's G.Skill, a memory maker that's heavily involved in the overclocking scene, and with DDR4 RAM being relatively new, there's plenty of uncharted memory frequency territory to explore. A month ago, G.Skill set a DDR4 memory record by taking a single 4GB module and pushing it to 4,255MHz. And this month? G.Skill broke its own DDR4 frequency record by hitting 4,355MHz.
The new record was set by again using G.Skill's Ripjaws 4 Series memory nestled into an Asus Rampage V Extreme motherboard with a 5th Generation Intel Core i7 5960X (Broadwell) processor. And again it was achieved with a single 4GB stick and liquid nitrogen (LN2) cooling.
To squeeze an extra 100MHz out of what was surely a cherry picked memory module, G.Skill relaxed the timings to 19-21-21-63, compared to 18-18-18-63 when it set the record last month. It's not clear if G.Skill used the exact same module as before or if it found a different one with a little more headroom.
Either way, G.Skill's on a record breaking role. In addition to this new DDR4 frequency record, the company's memory kits have also been used to set a total of nine world records in January alone. Half a dozen were set with the company's TridentX Series, and the other three were achieved using Ripjaws 4 memory.
Granted, none of us are in a big hurry to run a single 4GB module with LN2 cooling for daily computing chores, though give G.Skill credit for being so actively involved in the overclocking scene where such combinations are par for course. If nothing else, it's nice to see a company excited about frequencies.
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