Crucial Claims 6,024 MHz DDR4 RAM Overclock Record on AMD Hardware

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Lately we've been seeing more competition in the RAM overclocking scene, with traditional leaders like G.Skill having to share the world record spotlight. Now it's Crucial's turn, as its 8GB Ballistix Elite DIMMs were cranked to the ludicrous speed of 6,024 MHz.

Of course, some liquid nitrogen may have been harmed in the process of setting this new world record. This isn't the type of overclocking you can achieve on your daily-use computer.

Lately we've been seeing more competition in the RAM overclocking scene, with traditional leaders like G.Skill having to share the world record spotlight. Now it's Crucial's turn, as its 8GB Ballistix Elite DIMMs were cranked to the ludicrous speed of 6,024 MHz.

Of course, some liquid nitrogen may have been harmed in the process of setting this new world record. This isn't the type of overclocking you can achieve on your daily-use computer.

The record was set by overclocking teams from Asus and Micron. What’s particularly interesting is that the CPU used was an AMD Ryzen 5 3600X – because it’s not often that we see memory overclocking records happening with AMD CPUs. The motherboard used was the Asus Crosshair VIII Impact with an X570 chipset.
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