Aeneon Xtune DDR3-1866 (PC3-15000) 4GB DDR3 Kit

NVIDIA’s 790i chipset-based motherboards are widely recognised by enthusiasts as being among the best when it comes to high frequency DDR3 overclocking. Providing both the ability to run memory modules in sync, on a divider or ‘unlinked’ from the main CPU bus speed, they are the ideal platform for testing out the EPP2.0 enabled Xtune kit on review today. This, combined with the rest of the hardware listed below, will ensure that no other part of the system acts as a bottleneck:

To guarantee a broad range of results, the following benchmark utilities will be used:

Overclocking

While our natural-born instinct as overclockers was to jump right in and start pumping extra voltage through the Aeneon kit, there is one important issue that needs to be explored first: stability. Too often here at Overclock3D, we’ve received memory kits that simply don’t work at their advertised speeds or voltages, leading to system crashes, corrupt OS installs and a lot of wasted time. Therefore, our first test was to see if the Xtune modules would work flawlessly straight out of the box…

DDR3-1866 / 10-10-10-30 / 1.5v

With a stock voltage of 1.5v and claims from Aeneon that “No Overvoltage Is Required”, this immediately set alarm bells ringing. After all, most other high performance DDR3 kits we’ve tested recently have required at least 1.8v in order to function correctly. However, after inserting the modules, enabling EPP2.0 in the BIOS and setting the memory voltage to 1.5v, the  system booted first time at DDR3-1866 and effortlessly passed a full 30 minutes of OCCT stability testing along with a series of benchmarks. Amazing work Aeneon!

DDR3-1974 / 10-10-10-30 / 1.5v

DDR3-1994 / 10-10-10-30 / 1.56v