Home » Memory » X58 DDR3 Memory Roundup June 2011 X58 DDR3 Memory Roundup June 2011 Stuart Davidson June 15, 2011 Memory Test System and Methodology 3x 4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 @ 9-9-9-24-2T (1.5v) 3x 2GB Crucial Ballistix SmartTracer DDR3-1600 @ 8-8-8-24-1T (1.65v) 3x 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1600 @ 8-8-8-24-2T (1.6v) 6x 4GB Kingston Hyper X t1 DDR3-1600 @ 9-9-9-27-2T (1.65v) 3x 4GB Patriot Viper Xtreme DDR3-2000 @ 9-11-9-27-2T (1.65v) Intel Core i7-990X Gigabyte X58A-UD7 AMD Radeon HD 6950 2GB Corsair AX1200 PSU 1x OCZ Revodrive X2 240GB (OS)2x WD VelociRaptor Hard Drives Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Paste Lian Li X2000F ASUS VG236 1920×1080 120Hz Screen Roccat Kone[+] Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1 DirectX 9/10/11 (Nov 2010) Catalyst 11.5b with App Profiles 5 Adobe CS5.5 Master Suite Shogun 2: Total War Cinebench R11.5 64-bit Fraps PCMark 7 Sisoft Sandra Unigine Heaven Benchmark Prime95 CPUz 1.57 The test system was built from scratch, a format of the hard drive was performed (NTFS) and then Windows 7 was installed. Following the completion of the installation, the video drivers were installed. All windows updates were then installed as were the latest builds of the benchmarking tools. Finally, the hard drives were de-fragmented. For each test, the video drivers were set to default quality/optimizations (unless otherwise stated). Good Benchmarking Practice Where possible, each benchmark was performed three times and the median result for each resolution/setting is shown in the tables that will follow. All applications had their latest patches applied and all hardware features the latest BIOS/Firmware. Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Share On