Test Setup

CPU: Intel i7-12700K @ Stock

CPU Cooler: be quiet! Silent Loop 2 360mm AIO

Motherboard: MSI Z690 TORPEDO

RAM: currently tested kit

Video: XFX Radeon RX 5700XT Ultra THICC III

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSD: Silicon Power US70 1TB PCIe 4.0

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

The pre-programmed timings and frequencies can be also found by using AIDA64; the DRAM IC manufacturer is listed as SK hynix:

We did first start testing this particular kit on our trusty Z690 CLASSIFIED from EVGA, running the latest 1.5 BIOS from the support page; while until 5800MHz we haven’t experienced any issues with the kit, loading XMP at 6000MHz resulted in a non-stable system. After more than four hours of retries we ended up with a stable 6000MHz frequency while entering up the timings manually but not at the stock 1.3V … we have had to run VDD/VDDQ at 1.37V; anything under this was erroring out after a while in TM5.

Since we have had also a Z670 TORPEDO board from MSI at our disposal, we thought to transfer the components from our testbench to this one and retry with the exact same kit…what happened next is very interesting: after only applying XMP profile, the board booted up and even after two separate runs of TM5 we did not encounter any errors! We double checked inside the UEFI and the RAM was running not at 1.37V as with the EVGA board, but at the stock 1.3V as pre-programmed by XMP 3.0!

Test Results

SuperPI XS 1.5 2MB

GeekBench 4

Blender Ryzen Rendering