Now we can finally put our full six sticks of the GeIL memory in, bringing our RAM up to 12GB. We repeat the same tests starting with opening up CPU-Z:
CPU-Z tells us that we’re running a 12GB kit in triple channel at 1600MHz (800:1 x 2) and our timings are 7-7-7-24. It seems that our settings are correct, so now we move on to MemTach:
From MemTach, we can extract the information that our RAM’s memset is 9198.2 MB/sec and memcpy is 8306.3 MB/sec. The entire benchmark took 15.42 seconds to run.
We now move on to SiSoft Sandra tests.
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| GeIL 12GB Cache and Memory | GeIL 12GB Memory Bandwidth | GeIL 12GB Memory Latency |
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The GeIL 12GB kit received the following scores:
| Tests | GeIL 12GB |
| Cache and Memory | 84.419 GB/s |
| Memory Bandwidth | 28.138 GB/s |
| Memory Latency | 56.1 ns |
Frink NFrank: Yes I neglected to take into account the case of triple channel. I was looking at it from a single DIMM perspective as the first comment was in relation to DIMM capacity rather than speed.
yeah what he said, pretty much. I would keep praying for more RAM slots rather than higher single stick capacity. The only benefit of having DDR3 over DDR2 is the higher bandwidth, but the speed definitely suffers.
“The only benefit of having DDR3 over DDR2 is the higher bandwidth, but the speed definitely suffers.”
Since we are only talking nano seconds, the order of magnitude of bandwidth over latency is staggering. I assure you DDR3 7-7-7-24 @1600 is quite a bit faster than DDR2 @1066. Especially if you factor in the bandwidth benefits of triple channel that you cannot get from DDR2.
Still only 2GB per memory stick. When will higher density (e.g. 4 GB) sticks come out? Or aren’t the memory companies re-tooling and moving to smaller fab sizes?
Well, They already have 4GB Sticks and that’s all most mobo’s can handle. The real problem that most people over look is that you dont really need more than 3GB of RAM. Most people will never use it all. I have 4GB and the only time I can get it to break 3GB is when I run Crysis on maxed out settings and have Photoshop, Movie Maker, and about 10 other programs running in the background. It is really the Speed that matters, not the actual size. Also, Its better to have 4 -1GB sticks than it is to have 1 – 4GB stick, and that is something that will never change.
Eaxmple of a Kingston 4GB RAM stick…
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134863