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| Test System Details |
| Specifications and Revisions | |
- Intel Core i7 920 (2.66 GHz Quad-Core, 45nm)
- Asus P6T Intel X58 Motherboard
- Nvidia GeForce 9600 512 MB
- Western Digital VelociRaptor 150 GB SATA-II 10K RPM Hard Drive
- Plextor PX-755SA DVD+/-RW Drive
- Corsair HX620W 620W Power Supply
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Edition (64-bit, SP1)
- Patriot Baseline Set (1066 MHz, CAS 9-9-9-24)
- Corsair XMS3 Dominator (1866 MHz, CAS 9-9-9-24)
- OCZ Platinum XT (1600 MHz, CAS 7-7-7-24)
- Kingston HyperX 1600 (1600 MHz, CAS 8-8-8-24)
- Kingston HyperX 1800 (1800 MHZ, CAS 9-9-9-27)
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| Synthetic Memory Benchmarks |
| SiSoft Sandra 2008 SP1 | |
With their stock settings enabled, the OCZ Platinum and Corsair Dominator modules give the best performance out of box. Both deliver about 26.5 GB/s of memory bandwidth with sub-60ns latencies. Our Kingston HyperX modules delivered about 24 GB/s with 60ns+ latencies. The OCZ modules tested surprisingly well here, considering they are running at a significantly lower clock speed compared to the Corsair. However, our Corsair modules have fairly high latencies by default, whereas the OCZ modules are a tight 7-7-7 which helps make up for the clock speed deficiencies.
