Testing Configuration and Benchmarks Used
To verify that the memory modules operate as advertised, the memory kit was run through our standard benchmark suite. In most cases, the results are presented for the memory under review as well as a different similar-class memory modules for performance comparison purposes. The benchmark tests used should give you a good understanding of the memory's capabilities so that you, the reader, can make a more informed purchasing decision.
| Test System Setup | |
| CPU | Intel Core i7-6700K (4.0GHz CPU and Ring Bus, 40 x 100MHz Base Clock) |
| Motherboard | ASUS Z170-A |
| Memory | Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3200 modules Stock – 2133MHz, 16-18-18-36-1T Max speed at 100MHz base clock – 3200MHz, 16-18-18-36-2T Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 modules Stock – 2133MHz, 16-18-18-35-1T Max speed at 100MHz base clock – 2666MHz, 16-18-18-35-2T Corsair Dominator Platinum 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-3400 modules Stock – 2133MHz, 16-18-18-40-1T Max speed at 102.05MHz base clock – 3400MHz, 16-18-18-40-2T |
| Hard Drive | Intel 730 240GB SSD Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA III HD |
| Sound Card | On-board sound |
| Video Card | ASUS Poseidon GTX 780 3GB |
| CPU Cooling | XSPC Raystorm D5 Photon RX480 V3 WaterCooling Kit |
| Video Drivers | NVIDIA 353.62 |
| Power Supply | Corsair HX750 |
| Operating System | Windows 10 Pro x64 |
The 64-bit Windows 10 based test bench used for testing includes an Intel Core i7-6700K processor, an ASUS Z170-A motherboard, an ASUS Poseidon GTX 780 3GB video card, and an Intel 730 240GB SSD drive. Using the selected components gives us the ability to demonstrate the motherboard's capabilities rather than that of the components themselves.
Benchmark Tests used for evaluation:
- SiSoft Sandra 2015 SP2b (v2015.07.21.42)
- AIDA64 Extreme Edition v5.30.3500
- 7-Zip v15.06
Seems bizarre to me where you
Seems bizarre to me where you basically need to use water cooling for your CPU or a stock heat sink (which do not exist for the socket 2011 processors) in order to use the air flow kit for the RAM.
We’ve gone from “water cooling your RAM isn’t necessary” to this? If I have a custom loop in my PC I’m probably going to look into water cooling the RAM instead of something like this.
It’s ugly, really.
I don’t see the need to have
I don’t see the need to have any type of cooling on RAM, even more so with the 1.2v stock voltage of DDR4. Even heat-spreaders are more for product differentiation and marketing than any real necessity.
Watercooling your RAM is just adding restriction to the loop and added cost for zero real-world benefit. All imho of course.
Thanks for the review.
Can
Thanks for the review.
Can you add some benchmarks for multitasking? Sort of the way some reviewers test SSDs with multiple things happening at once. I think there could be some real gains there with faster ram that we just aren’t seeing with these single task benchmarks.
I run my computers in the ground with multiple VMs in flight compiling code, for instance. How much better would the increase in speed help scenarios like that with the CPU running overdrive?
“running at there rated 1.35V
“running at there rated 1.35V voltage”
*their
fixed, thanks…
fixed, thanks…