Recently I have been testing several DDR4 kits and practicing tuning them to the max for the Overclocking Competitions I am involved in at CES in America. Thus I tested several kits from Various Vendors all Being 3000mhz + stock speeds. So high binned!!. While testing these Gibbo suggested I take a look at the 2400mhz Avexir Kit that can be found by following this link: www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-076-AR&groupid=701&catid=8&subcat=2557
He said with DDR4 Avexir had instead of looking at doing several OC SKU's concentrated on one no frills SKU that is very high quality and they want it to become the choice for the Overclockers amongst the community.
With this in mind I requested a kit from stock to test. On inspection of the modules they are indeed no frills very basic looking dimms with no heat spreader. The kit was 4 x 4gb sticks so 16gb in total. More importantly for me though the sticks had Hynix IC which where mounted only to one side of the PCB. This type of DDR has been the choice for great results since the inception of DDR4 with Haswell E. The stock speed of this kit is 2400mhz at conservative 16-16-16-39 timings.
All the testing was done with the memory in quad channel, CPU at 4.5ghz and uncore at 4g. Stability testing was 1 pass memtest and Super Pi 32m. The times for 32m should be ignored as the OS had not been configured for this benchmark to give the best possible efficiency.
Below you see the results from this testing session.
XMP Timings and speed
DDR4 3000 at XMP Timings 1.3v
DDR3100 at XMP Timings 1.3v
DDR3000 C11 1.5v
DDR3100 C12 1.5v
As you can see the results where nothing short of excellent. If you want to keep the voltages low DDR4 3100mhz was easily attainable by simply setting XMP timings in bios and overclocking the RAM multi / BLK. For a 2400mhz kit this is a 33% overclock.
The kit also tuned as well as most of the top kits costing much more given some extra voltage. C11 3000mhz with tight subs was possible with 1.5v and C12 3100 with tight subs at the same voltage rock stable. We can see from Aida testing this gives a substantial gain in memory bandwidth and latency. Timings such as TRCD 14, TRFC 280 and TWCL11 are indicative of serious quality dimms and performance at 3100 and 3200mhz.
In conclusion the Avexir is indeed a great overclocking and performance SKU. Its also very very good value for money for those wanting the possibility of high performance at less cost. Infact the only downside I can see is its basic looks.
He said with DDR4 Avexir had instead of looking at doing several OC SKU's concentrated on one no frills SKU that is very high quality and they want it to become the choice for the Overclockers amongst the community.
With this in mind I requested a kit from stock to test. On inspection of the modules they are indeed no frills very basic looking dimms with no heat spreader. The kit was 4 x 4gb sticks so 16gb in total. More importantly for me though the sticks had Hynix IC which where mounted only to one side of the PCB. This type of DDR has been the choice for great results since the inception of DDR4 with Haswell E. The stock speed of this kit is 2400mhz at conservative 16-16-16-39 timings.
All the testing was done with the memory in quad channel, CPU at 4.5ghz and uncore at 4g. Stability testing was 1 pass memtest and Super Pi 32m. The times for 32m should be ignored as the OS had not been configured for this benchmark to give the best possible efficiency.
Below you see the results from this testing session.
XMP Timings and speed
DDR4 3000 at XMP Timings 1.3v
DDR3100 at XMP Timings 1.3v
DDR3000 C11 1.5v
DDR3100 C12 1.5v
As you can see the results where nothing short of excellent. If you want to keep the voltages low DDR4 3100mhz was easily attainable by simply setting XMP timings in bios and overclocking the RAM multi / BLK. For a 2400mhz kit this is a 33% overclock.
The kit also tuned as well as most of the top kits costing much more given some extra voltage. C11 3000mhz with tight subs was possible with 1.5v and C12 3100 with tight subs at the same voltage rock stable. We can see from Aida testing this gives a substantial gain in memory bandwidth and latency. Timings such as TRCD 14, TRFC 280 and TWCL11 are indicative of serious quality dimms and performance at 3100 and 3200mhz.
In conclusion the Avexir is indeed a great overclocking and performance SKU. Its also very very good value for money for those wanting the possibility of high performance at less cost. Infact the only downside I can see is its basic looks.
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