Crucial Ballistix PC3-16000
3. Performance
EVEREST Ultimate Edition is a leading system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users, based on the EVEREST Technology. During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems. Furthermore, complete software, operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool that offers a total of 100 pages of information about your PC. The software has build-in several tests for memory and CPU/FPU.
We used the latest Everest Ultimate Edition benchmark software and we got various memory copy/read/write numbers for different frequencies:
It seems that the unlinked memory doesn't give the highest results. In fact increasing the frequency and of course timings produces a lower performance. Of course that's the worst case scenario since most overclockers will keep memory and cpu paired (synced).