Wednesday, October 2nd 2013
G.Skill TridentX Most Popular Overclocking Memory for 3 Years in a Row
G.SKILL TridentX tops the charts at HWBOT as the most popular memory model used by overclockers to submit benchmark results on the Haswell platform this year. Maintaining a healthy 20-22% usage rate by both number of results and number of users, G.SKILL TridentX dominates the charts with a nearly 10% lead over the trailing competition. Not only is TridentX the most popular memory choice for overclocking on the Haswell platform, other G.SKILL memory kit models also populate the chart, for a total of five spots in the top ten most popular memory by overclocking result.
Overall, G.SKILL has maintained its lead as the most preferred overclocking DDR3 memory brand in the overclocking community at HWBot since 2011. For more detailed information, please refer to this page.
Overall, G.SKILL has maintained its lead as the most preferred overclocking DDR3 memory brand in the overclocking community at HWBot since 2011. For more detailed information, please refer to this page.
6 Comments on G.Skill TridentX Most Popular Overclocking Memory for 3 Years in a Row
This high frequency RAM is really only of value for entertainment purposes, not for practical desktop PC use. The RAM suppliers are desperate for sales in a down economy so they have really been hyping higher frequency RAM for the past few years as it has a high profit margin since it costs the same to produce as the std. DDR3 RAM. It's just speed binned and has silly heatsinks attached.
Anyone who doubts the worthlessness of higher than 1600 MHz. RAM only needs to conduct their own test with real applications, not bogus RAM benches which assume that the RAM is 100% saturated all of the time, when in fact in actual use it's not even close to being saturated 100% of the time and that is why it's not a system bottleneck.
With that said, I haven't had any issues with my G.Skill sticks. On Desky, I set some pretty low latencies for the speed and it hasn't given me any grief at all. That makes me pretty happy.