Kingston Value PC3-10600 DDR3 1333MHz CL9 12GB (6x2GB) kit

Synthetic Benchmarks

Published: 23rd June 2009 | Source: Kingston | Price: TBC | Author: Rich Weatherstone

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.

PassMark is a popular benchmarking suite which test all aspect of PC hardware.The Memory benchmarks both read (cached and un cached), small bock allocation and write speeds. Each memory test was performed a total of 5 times, with an average being calculated from the middle three results.

Results Observations

As expected, the stock clock runs were mediocre at best with the 12GB having minimal effect on the overall results. However, when the 12GB kit was overclocked the results increased significantly to warrant the extra time put into tweaking the kit.

Let's see if the same benefits were to be had with the synthetic run of 3D benchmarks...