Published: December 14, 2008 | Source: Corsair | Author: Rich Weatherstone

Corsair DDR3 CL8 1600MHz XMS3 Dominator 6GB Kit

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility capable of benchmarking the performance of individual components inside a PC. Each of the benchmarks below were run a total of five times with the highest and lowest scores being discarded and an average being calculated from the remaining three.

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 3.

SuperPI is the benchmark of choice for many overclockers. It’s lightweight to download and can give a quick indication on how good a system is at number crunching. Once again, testing was performed a total of 5 times, with an average being calculated from the middle three results.

Â Results Observations

Predictably, the overclocked setup gave enhanced results and shows the extra amount of bandwidth available should you overclock the Corsair ram past it’s stock settings. Let’s see ifÂ these overclocked settings have an affect on our run of 3D tests…