G.Skill Trident Extreme Performance F3-16000CL9 DDR3 Kit
3DMark is a popular synthetic gaming benchmark used by many gamers and overclockers to gauge the performance of their PC’s. All 3DMark runs were performed a total of 5 times, with the highest and lowest results being removed and an average calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Ubisoft has developed a new engine specifically for Far Cry 2, called Dunia, meaning “world”, “earth” or “living” in Parsi. The engine takes advantage of multi-core processors as well as multiple processors and supports DirectX 9 as well as DirectX 10. Running the Far Cry 2 benchmark tool the test was run 5 times with the highest and lowest scores being omitted and the average calculated from the remaining 3.
Results conclusions
Again, we see that the OCZ kit is faster overall, closely followed by the G.Skill Trident. One has to consider the price difference between the two kits though and whether the faster slightly faster OCZ kit is worth that extra cash. At the premium end I would guess that money is no object but for the enthusiast who wants speed and value, then the G.Skill kit maybe the kit of choice.
Let’s head over to the conclusion…
