MSI P55-GD80 Motherboard

 

 

 

 

Everest is in many ways similar to Sisoft Sandra. Focusing mainly on software and hardware information reporting, Everest also comes with a benchmark utility suitable for testing the read, write and latency performance of the memory subsystem. Each of these benchmarks were performed a total of 5 times with the highest and lowest scores being discarded and an average calculated from the remaining three.
 

 

 

 

 

 

Because of the limitation of using the OC Genie mentioned previously, the memory bandwidth was limited to 1260MHz until MSI sort this issue out (which they have promised to do immediately so hopefully it will be resolved by the time you read this). So to save MSI’s blushes I set the GSkill memory of our test bench to it’s rated 2000MHz due to overclocking the base clock as opposed to the maximum 1600MHz allowed from the stock memory dividers. This is the same on most P55 boards so it is something worthy of consideration should you wish to purchase high frequency memory modules. The good news is that the 2000MHz setting worked without a hitch.