Samsung Green 8GB VLP 1600MHz Kit Review
Test Setup and PC Mark Vantage
Published: 6th February 2012 | Source: Samsung | Price: |
Test Setup
We've got the Samsung in our standard Sandy Bridge test setup that we use for all our dual-channel testing.
Samsung Green VLP 8GB
MSI P67A-GD65
Intel Core i5-2500K @ 4GHz
EVGA GTX570
Noctua NH-D14
Cougar CM1000 PSU
Windows 7 64 Bit
CPUz
Without a heat-spreader in place this really isn't designed to have 1.65v pushed through it, and that would be missing the point anyway. One of the downsides of the Sandy Bridge fixed BCLK is the next memory speed is a whopping 266MHz ahead and there are very few kits that can cope with that.
PC Mark Vantage
The major comparison for the Samsung Green is the Corsair Vengeance which runs at 1.35v, .15v less than we need to obtain 1600MHz from the VLP. However the results are pretty close throughout PC Mark Vantage.
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We have, and still are, using some (approximately a 1000) sticks of Kingston at this height to ""upgrade"" computers as a ""refresh"".
This stuff has it's place and uses, and I'm very surprised about not being able to use less voltage.
1600 MHz C9 at 1.3v - I will try lower.
2133 MHz C10 at 1.45v
They not even warm at these settings.
I paid just £95.00 for the 16GB kit.
I'm running mine at 1866mhz but below are the confirmed stable timings. I've heard of people running these sticks at even lower timings though:
- 1600MHz (7-8-8-24 1N) @ 1.40v
- 1866MHz (9-9-9-27 1N) @ 1.40v
- 2000MHz (9-10-10-28 1N) @ 1.45v
- 2133MHz (10-10-10-28 1N) @ 1.45v
- 2400MHz (11-11-11-28 2N) @ 1.50v
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With their own RAM sticks Samsung have redefined what we consider Low Profile to be. Does the performance match up?
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