Memory overclocking:
As we’ve already hinted, it’s with regard to memory overclocking that we’ll be paying the most attention, since this ASRock Taichi Z890 OCF promises excellent potential. We’ll be using our memory kit from Teamgroup, who have been loyal to us for many years. We should be receiving a copy of the 8800 MT/s CKD kit in the next few weeks.
The kit consists of two 24 GB sticks clocked at 8200 MT/s in CL38, but here on 3 GB Hynix M-die chips. We’re going to use the 8200 MT/s kit to test some of the profiles available in the BIOS. Here are the available ones. We plan to come back to memory overclocking with this ASRock Taichi Z890 OCF in more detail once we’ve received the CKD kit.
We’ll be focusing on the ” Tight ” profiles, which will be more interesting. We’ll be testing the 8800 G2, 9000 G2, 9600 G4, 9733 G4 and Raw memory air cooling. We’ll be testing performance differences under AIDA64 and Geekbench 3. Unfortunately, it wasn’t possible to run the last two profiles with our memory kit. We therefore tested our XMP profile against the 8800 G2, 9000 G2 and 9600 G4, which you can see in detail below.
Let’s take a look at the performance of these three profiles under AIDA64 and Geekbench 3, in comparison with the XMP profile of our Teamgroup T-Force Xtreem 8200 MT/s CL38 kit.
As you can see, all three profiles are very interesting and offer significant performance gains. They can also be very useful as a starting point for more advanced overclocking. As we said above, we’ll be coming back to memory overclocking with this OCF in the weeks to come, but current events force us to postpone these tests.
