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Intel X99 Benchers Memory Battle

Memory by leeghoofd @ 2017-05-01

Since the launch of the Intel Sky Lake platform, we were being flooded with a multitude of different DDR4 memory ICs. After you finally decided to buy that particular tweakable kit, there were again screenshots popping up of something new and at first glance even better performing memory. At launch date Hynix was king of the hill for the X99 quad channel setups. however the latest memory architecture release for Sky and Kaby Lake are the Samsung B-DIE ICs. When tweaked, they are able to run at high speeds in combination with ultra tight timings. These are a real treat to gain them extra precious points to climb in the HWBOT ranking. Besides the fact that the latter are 8GB modules and thus a bit more pricey than the other 4GB variants, one drawback is that these B-DIE based memories are still pretty inconsistent in quality. Wading through different OC forums we noted DOA's, degraded sticks and even many sticks just failing to do tight timings at what we consider to be standard OC speeds, hence why memory binners jumped on the wagon and are selling, logically for a little extra margin, sticks that can truly deliver the goods. Today we explore what memory is great and which one is the best for your high end Intel LGA 2011-3 platform.

Basic Settings for 3333MHz B-Die

With an added 133MHz things start to get more tricky for both the motherboard and the processor's Integrated Memory Controller. The ASUS Rampage V Extreme had no issues at 3333MHz with the B-dies at Quad Channel.

The MSI Godlike Gaming board started to loose randomly some channels if we pushed above 3200Mhz. The ASUS board behaved the same when we wanted to try any memory divider above 3333MHz, this no matter if we used the Haswell-E or Broadwell-E precessor. In all honesty this is not bad at all, however if you really want to explore new heights in memory clocking the ASUS flagship Rampage V 10th Edition is the only way to go. The latter has been proven to be way more versatile with high speed and large quantity memory than any other X99 board out there.

But back to the starting profile for 3333MHz action:

Basically there's not that much difference between the 3200 and 3333MHz strap. Just note that we are using the 125 strap now, of course the 3333MHz memory divider and had to increase the System Agent Voltage to 1.275 on the ASUS Rampage V Extreme motherboard.

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