G.Skill’s Trident Z5 DDR5 RAM was impressively overclocked to 6027MHz (or 12,054MT/s) without needing extreme cooling methods like liquid nitrogen. The achievement was accomplished by an expert overclocker from Indonesia, ‘speed.fastest,’ using only air cooling. This remarkable feat demonstrated the high overclock potential of modern hardware, as highlighted by G.Skill.
The record-breaking overclock was done on a single 24GB stick of RAM from a Trident Z5 DDR5-8000 CL38 2 x 24GB kit, paired with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K processor and an Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard. Another overclocker based in Canada, ‘saltycroissant,’ also reached 12,050MT/s with the same RAM module on air cooling, showcasing the incredible speeds achievable without exotic cooling methods.
However, the practicality of such extreme overclocking remains questionable due to the CPU running only a single core at 400MHz, rendering it unsuitable for real-world applications. Despite this limitation, these achievements underline the overclocking potential of DDR5 in an Arrow Lake system, offering insight into the capabilities of modern hardware.