G.SKILL is excited to announce two historical overclock achievements of reaching DDR5-12052 and DDR5-12054 memory overclock speed records under air cooling with the G.SKILL Trident Z5 series DDR5 memory. Previously, reaching the DDR5-12000 milestone required a more extreme cooling method, such as liquid nitrogen or dry ice. These incredible achievements with air cooling demonstrate the amazing overclock potential of modern hardware. The DDR5-12052 memory overclock speed is achieved by "saltycroissant", an extreme overclocker from Canada, using the Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 265K desktop processor and ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF motherboard. Meanwhile, the DDR5-12054 memory overclock speed is achieved by "speed.fastest", an extreme overclocker from Indonesia, using the Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 285K desktop processor and ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard.

Incredible DDR5-12000+ Overclocking Milestone with Ambient Cooling
In earlier overclock records on the Intel Z890 platform, only extreme sub-zero cooling with liquid nitrogen or dry ice was used to achieve overclock speeds of over DDR5-12000. These memory overclock records, achieved with CPU on water cooling and memory on air cooling, is an incredible milestone for the overclock community. Both overclocking records on air cooling were achieved with one module from a G.SKILL Trident Z5 series DDR5-8000 CL38 2x48GB (F5-8000J3848F24GX2-TZ5K) memory kit.

The DDR5-12054 memory speed record achieved by speed.fastest is validated by HWBOT.org and CPU-Z Validator. Refer to the screenshots and links below for more details on this remarkable overclocking feat.

DDR5-12054 (CPU-Z Validator): https://valid.x86.fr/35pq4e
DDR5-12054 (HWBOT.org): https://hwbot.org/submission/5758473

For saltycroissant's DDR5-12052 memory speed record, since hwbot.org only shows the highest record submission per category for each overclocker, saltycroissant's earlier liquid nitrogen record of DDR5-12642 with G.SKILL Trident Z5 memory at the overall #3 spot takes precedence in the air cooled overclock record.

DDR5-12052 (CPU-Z Validator): https://valid.x86.fr/n39ie8

Special congratulations to speed.fastest and saltycroissant for such amazing achievements, which could not have happened without each of their amazing memory overclocking experience and sophisticated memory tweaking skills. G.SKILL is thrilled to be part of this record breaking history, and will continue to provide outstanding memory products to the overclocking community.