G.SKILL Trident Z Royal is first to hit DDR4-6666 as 10900K hits 7.7GHz

G.Skill proudly announced the ASUS ROG team set a new memory overclocking recording using the Trident Z Royal memory modules. On a system with the ASUS ROG Maximus XII APEX motherboard and Intel's i9-10900K "Comet Lake-S" processor, the ASUS ROG overclockers managed to clock the G.Skill memory modules to an impressive 6666MHz!

G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd., the world’s leading manufacturer of extreme performance memory and gaming peripherals, is thrilled to claim yet another world record, in close cooperation with the ASUS ROG team, for the fastest memory frequency at an incredible DDR4-6666, achieved by the G.SKILL Trident Z Royal DDR4 memory with the latest Intel® Core™ i9-10900K processor and ASUS ROG Maximus XII APEX motherboard, based on the new Intel® Z490 chipset.

Super-Charged Extreme OC Memory Frequency World Record Along with the latest release of the 10th Gen Intel platform, ASUS and G.SKILL worked closely to achieve a new world record for the fastest memory frequency. Using liquid nitrogen for extreme system cooling, this memory frequency world record is set at a whopping DDR4-6666. This world record is achieved with the ASUS ROG Maximus XII APEX motherboard, the latest ATX form factor motherboard based on the Intel® Z490 chipset, and the Intel® Core™ i9-10900K processor. See below for a screenshot of the world record specifications.

The ASUS ROG overclockers also used the same motherboard to overclock the 10900K processor to 7.7GHz on all ten cores. This feat was achieved using liquid helium cooling.