Performance, Stock Clock Speeds
| CPU: | Intel Core i7 3770k |
| RAM: | Crucial Ballistix Sport 2x4GB 1600-9-9-9 |
| Motherboard: | Gigabyte Z77x-UD5H |
| GPU: | Gigabyte GTX660Ti |
| Storage: | OCZ Vertex 3 240GB MaxIOPS |
| PSU: | Antec EarthWatts Platinum 650w |
| Case: | Thermaltake Armor Revo |
My standard test system, the 3770k and Z77x-UD5H are a solid pair for OCing ram, Intel’s Ivy Bridge chips are quite good at it.
For this first round of tests the CPU speed was set to 4GHz, ram speed/voltages/timings were left on AUTO to simulate plugging the ram in and running it as-is. This resulted in the ram being set thusly:
Perfect! Note that CPUz shows the base frequency while the ram is rated at the DDR frequency, which is 2x the base frequency.
Maxxmem
Maxxmem can only use two memory channels, but given this platform (and kit of ram) that’s all we have anyway.
Not bad, not barnburningly good either, but not bad.
SuperPi 32M
SuperPi 32M makes heavy use of ram, it’s useful both as a stress test and as a benchmark for ram.
This is about what I expect for 1600-9-9-9 RAM, amusingly it’s the same result we got with some faster ram recently. That was a different (though more expensive) motherboard and a different OS as well, so it isn’t directly comparable. Still, this is promising.
WPrime 32M and 1024M
WPrime doesn’t use RAM as heavily as the first two, but it does play a part in the 1024M benchmark.
Now let’s move on to what I’m really interested in, overclocking. Given the SPD tables I won’t even be overclocking until I’m over 1954MHz (977MHz base).
