The Memory Overclocking Contest is here
As we all know, DDR5 memory overclocking difficulty is higher than previous DDR4 is higher, and very eat the hardware itself, in order to facilitate white players can also experience the fun of memory overclocking, many motherboard manufacturers have also launched their own one-key overclocking technology, such as Gigabyte's D5 black technology. Recently, Jiyou around him told Hardcore that GIGABYTE is holding a DDR5 memory overclocking competition in conjunction with INTEL, and the opportunity is rare, although the hardware on hand is not very strong, but I aim to participate.
This is the aorusd5.cpcw.com of the entry link, interested friends can also go to ponder, the prize is quite rich, and it is not necessary to manually overclock the whole process, you can also combine Gigabyte D5 black technology to reduce the difficulty, let's first introduce the hardware of this test.
Accessories are unboxed
The motherboard chose GIGABYTE's recently launched B760M GAMING WIFI Magic Eagle, the front of the package uses a very futuristic robot as the main vision, in line with the taste of D5 black technology, and the Magic Eagle series, although not affiliated with AORUS products, but it also supports a four-year warranty and supports personal warranty, which will have more advantages than other brands in after-sales.
In terms of accessories, the motherboard provides SATA data cable, simple manual, independent bezel and Wi-Fi antenna, it is worth praising that the Wi-Fi antenna is not an ordinary two antennas, but uses a white and black shape design, and the base also has magnetic properties.
Before this B760M GAMING WIFI magic eagle, there are actually two versions - GAMING Magic Eagle and GAMING AC Magic Eagle, the actual difference between the three is not very big, the hand uses a new white heat dissipation vest (previously red), and the first set of M.2 slots also have heat sinks, in addition to a little difference in interface and configuration, in general, B760M GAMING WIFI MAGIC EAGLE PRODUCT POSITIONING WILL BE HIGHER.
The motherboard adopts 6+2+1 phase power supply, 6 phases serve the CPU Vcore part, the power supply part is covered by a heat dissipation vest, which is more suitable for coping with CPUs of about 200W, such as Core i5 13600K (KF), this motherboard also integrates a 104 microcode BIOS, the step-down operation is very simple, and I will demonstrate it to you later.
B760M GAMING WIFI Magic Eagle's biggest selling point is the use of dual DDR5 memory slot design, high-frequency signals are less affected, the official nominal maximum support for overclocking to 8000MHz, single slot maximum capacity support to 48GB, which is higher than many mainstream Z790 four-slot motherboard ceiling, but the actual amount of excess depends on the CPU, memory physique.
The motherboard has a PCIe 4.0X16 and PCIe 3.0X1 slot, of which the full-length slot has a heightened and lengthened processing at the buckle, which is more convenient for players to remove the graphics card, simple and practical small design. There are two groups of M.2 slots, both of which support up to PCIe 4.0X4, the first group of sockets comes with a heatsink design (directly connected to the CPU channel), and the second group is a convenient snap (break up) design, based on the PCH channel.
Back I/O interface, the configuration is not very decent, equipped with 2 * USB 2.0, 1 * PS / 2 keyboard and mouse, Wi-Fi antenna (AC 9461), 1 * VGA, 1 * HDMI, 1 * DP, 3 * USB 3.2 GEN 1, 1 * USB Type C 3.2 GEN 1, 1 * 2.5G network port and 3 * audio interface, the overall number of USB interfaces is sufficient, the compatibility is old, and even the VGA interface is there.
Next, look at the other interfaces on the motherboard, a SYS FAN1 fan interface is configured next to the 8pin power supply interface, and the water pump can be connected here if the whole machine is a water cooling solution.
In the upper right corner of the motherboard, there is a set of 5V 3pin lighting interfaces and a set of CPU FAN interfaces.
In the middle position on the right, there are two sets of vertical SATA ports and SYS_FAN2 interfaces, and the chassis fan or memory heatsink can be connected here.
In the lower right area of the motherboard, there are also two sets of horizontal SATA interfaces, and the lower position is the SYS_FAN3 interface, in addition, this motherboard is friendly equipped with four DEBUG lights, which is convenient for users to judge error messages, and the Debug lamp is next to the CLR CMOS pin.
In the lower left area of the motherboard, you can see a set of 12V 4pin and a set of 5V 3pin lighting interfaces, next to the Q-FLASH PLUS button, which can realize that it is very convenient to brush BIOS without CPU, and from this angle it can also be seen that the audio chip is ALC897.
In terms of memory, although it is for competition, considering the motherboard positioning also chose a relatively cost-effective strip - Acer Predator Pallas II Frost DDR5 6000 16GB*2 set, Frost series is a product line inherited from the DDR4 era, the frequency is 5200 / 6000 / 6400 / 6600 MHz three options, this time the choice is DDR5 6000 frequency, is the choice of most D5 players.
The internal packaging is to use traditional plastic packaging materials to fix the memory, but the manufacturer also plugs an additional layer of shock-absorbing material above the memory to ensure that the transportation state is more stable and the protection will be better.
Lingshuang series product positioning belongs to the mainstream, the memory uses aluminum alloy heat dissipation vest, the thickness is enough to dissipate heat should be good, the memory is also integrated with a temperature sensor, which is convenient for players to monitor the temperature when overclocking is conducive to adjusting parameters, the workmanship is quite fine, and the metal texture is full.
The front appearance of the memory belongs to the absolutely simple design style, the left and right directions are Pallas II and DDR5 LOGO, the middle area is the PREDATOR Acer Predator LOGO, the upper area deliberately circles an area with a snowflake pattern and silver edge demarcation, adding a certain sense of three-dimensionality, and the overall look is not few.
Since the memory of the Lingshuang series is positioned in the mainstream consumer market, of course, there is no RGB light, and it is also suitable for lightless theme installation, and the top of the memory is still finely polished - the surface has a brushed texture treatment.
There is a product label on the back of the memory, which is marked with the serial number and parameters, the memory supports Intel XMP 3.0 and AMD EXPO technology, and DDR5 6000C30-38-38-76 & 1.35V can be achieved after opening, timing tuning is quite good, especially when the AMD Ryzen 7000 platform overclocking range is usually limited, you can enjoy high performance on the machine.
The memory height is measured to be 43.75mm, as a matte model, the height is actually relatively high, mainly because the memory gives a large enough heat dissipation vest, and the new top twin tower air-cooling compatibility is also good, and the old model may need to compromise.
Motherboard power supply and memory overclocking measurement
To briefly talk about the test environment, the main test processor is Core i7-13700K (better physique), set the default not overclocking (including main frequency and RING), the graphics card is RTX 4090 can minimize the bottleneck, used to test the comparison of game frames before and after overclocking, equipped with Windows 11 22H2 system and the recent version of NVIDIA 536.99 WHQL graphics card driver, the whole 27 ° C air-conditioned room open platform.
In addition to the 13700K, the Core i5 13600K was added to this test, mainly because the motherboard positioning and it are more closely matched, which is convenient for AIDA64 FPU or CINEBENCH R23 oven to verify the motherboard power supply performance.
As mentioned at the beginning, the latest BIOS of this motherboard has integrated 104 microcode, which can bypass the CEP limit to a certain extent for voltage reduction, and the specific operation is also simple, in the BIOS frequency/voltage control page, select MCU mode to switch 104 microcode, select Adaptive Vcore mode, fill in negative values in the Dynamic Vcore option (CPU loop voltage option can be synchronized), It is recommended to start with -0.05V and try it at 0.02V each time, and the final stable value of the hardcore 13600K is -0.16V.
Default XMP configuration, due to the limitation of CEP, when running the CINEBENCH R23 ten-minute cycle project, the default voltage of the motherboard is as high as 1.33V, the CPU Package power consumption reaches 183W, the CPU Package temperature reaches 95 °C, and the motherboard VRM temperature is also 78 °C, but the motherboard can still resist 13600K The whole process is full frequency work, i5 running high voltage value for the entry 360 water cooling is obviously also pressure.
After -0.16V buck, the CPU voltage drops to 1.16V when baking, at this time the CPU Package power consumption drops to 133W, the CPU Package temperature drops to 74 °C, and the motherboard VRM temperature is only 59 °C, at this time the motherboard with i5 13600K is easy to run, and the radiator requirements will be reduced accordingly.
CINEBENCH R23 multi-core and single-core running score comparison before and after bucking, the result is almost consistent without any loss of performance (when the bottom voltage value is the best to use the CINEBENCH R23 multi-core project to verify until the best negative value), B760M GAMING WIFI MAGIC EAGLE WITH 13600K ACTUAL RUNNING SCORE IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS Z790, SUITABLE FOR SILENT AND PRACTICAL BUDDHISM USERS.
Next is the memory part, although the page indicates that the page is marked as hynix particles, but the actual shipment is mixed, and the set of Hynix software tested by Thaiphoon Burner software is to use hynix II A-Die particles, which are easier to impact high frequencies.
This overclocking competition is not limited to enthusiasts, do not understand the complex principle of the little white can also be operated through the motherboard BIOS D5 black technology, the operation method is also simple, mainly open High Bandwidth (high bandwidth) & Low Latency (low latency) function can improve performance with one key, after setting the memory will not adjust the frequency, but automatically fine-tune some small parameters, considering that the brand memory factory parameters are relatively wide, in fact, these two functions are indeed very stable.
After most of the day of exploration, this set of frost DDR5 6000 can be stably overclocked to DDR5 7600C34-44-44-52 on the B760M GAMING WIFI Magic Eagle, and the small ginseng has fine adjustments, which is a setting that can pass the TestMem5's Extreme 1@anta777 oven test, not a simple running theory test.
VDD memory and VDDQ voltage are unified 1.55V, VDDQ CPU and VDD2 CPU are 1.42V and 1.41V, the oven temperature of one of the memory reaches up to 64 °C, the other is 55 °C, considering that this is carried out in an unassisted fan, dual-socket (the two memories are almost attached together) environment, in fact, the heat dissipation capacity of the memory itself is already very good.
Pallas II Frost DDR5 6000C30-38-38-76 XMP settings, AIDA64 memory and cache test
Pallas II DDR5 6000C30-38-38-76 XMP setting + D5 black technology, AIDA64 memory and cache test
Pallas II Frost DDR5 7600C34-44-44-52 OC setting, AIDA64 memory and cache test
Pallas II Frost DDR5 7800C34-46-46-52 OC setting, AIDA64 memory and cache test
Pallas II Frost DDR5 8000C34-46-46-52 OC setting, can only light up and boot
The XMP setting performance of this set of memory itself is good, the latency performance is only 64.8ns, and after further turning on the D5 black technology, the read, write and copy bandwidth performance is stable above 90000 MB/s, and the latency is reduced to 61.4ns, and the performance at this time is similar to DDR4 3600 Gear1 mode.
Further overclocking to 7600MHz, the increase is great, the three bandwidth performance reaches more than 110 GB/s, and the latency is reduced to 52.8ns, which is equivalent to the performance of high-frequency D4 low-timing memory. As for 7800 and 8000MHz, given the CPU IMC and memory constitution, this situation cannot be used daily, and the actual latency performance is not much worse than 7600MHz, and the gap in daily use will be smaller.
Pallas II DDR5 6000C30-38-38-76 XMP setting, PassMark Performance Test 11 memory test score of 4053
Pallas II DDR5 7600C34-44-44-52 OC setting, PassMark Performance Test 11 memory test score of 4925
According to the total score of PassMark memory in this overclocking competition, it can be seen that the score gap before and after overclocking is quite large, actually reaching 21.5%, 7600MHz this frequency is not high, but 4925 this score can just squeeze into the 20th, after this ranking there are higher frequencies, which shows the importance of memory small tuning.
Three memory parameters 7-ZIP benchmark, compression and decompression will involve CPU and memory performance, especially when compressing is more related to memory performance, fast and simple use of D5 black technology, compression performance compared with XMP can be increased by 4.4%, and after manual overclocking is increased by 12.4%, obviously can greatly improve file processing efficiency, and decompression more rely on CPU multi-threading and certain single-core performance.
"PUBG" 2K 3 super high quality + 120% rendering
Pallas II DDR5 6000C30-38-38-76 XMP setting, average frame rate 392fps, 1% LOW frame rate 251fps
Pallas II Frost DDR5 6000C30-38-38-76 XMP setting + D5 black technology, average frame rate 406fps, 1% LOW frame rate 249fps
Pallas II DDR5 7600C34-44-44-52 OC setting, average frame rate 430fps, 1% LOW frame rate 290fps
"Ride & Slash 2" 2K is very high quality
Pallas II DDR5 6000C30-38-38-76 XMP setting, average frame rate 259fps, 1% LOW frame rate 123fps
Pallas II Frost DDR5 6000C30-38-38-76 XMP setting + D5 black technology, average frame rate 259fps, 1% LOW frame rate 123fps
Pallas II DDR5 7600C34-44-44-52 OC setting, average frame rate 278fps, 1% LOW frame rate 143fps
In terms of game testing, both are carried out in 2K resolution, more in line with the player's daily mainstream scene, its own 6000MHz frequency is not high, using D5 black technology, you can only get a little performance improvement in games such as "PUBG", and overclocking to 7600MHz is obvious, the average frame rate of light is also about 7~10%, and the 1% LOW frame associated with the smoothness of the game even increases by more than 15%. This motherboard and memory are mainstream products, and through the above tests, it can be seen that its tossing space is also very large, and it is indeed worth matching with a 13600K gaming CPU.
epilogue
After the experience of this article, it is not difficult to find that GIGABYTE's B760M GAMING WIFI Magic Eagle motherboard (official price 1049 yuan), not only is very suitable for memory overclocking players who pursue cost performance, but also even white users, as long as you buy UHF XMP products (such as 7200/7600MHz), with the D5 black technology function of BIOS, you can also enjoy the same performance treatment as manual overclocking, in addition to the motherboard power supply is enough to cope with Core i5 13600K class processor.
As for the Acer Predator Pallas II Frost DDR5 6000 memory (official price 679 yuan), its own appearance design is very exquisite, the heat dissipation vest area is large, the measured heat dissipation performance is excellent, and the set in hand is Hynix A-Die particles, can be smoothly overclocked to 7600MHz stable use, as a mainstream product can have such potential cost performance is very good. If you are considering buying a 13600K in the near future, you may wish to consider this motherboard and memory! The full text is over, thanks for reading.