Performance
AIDA64 3.0
All memory kits in comparison are higher clocked than Crucial Ballistix Sport XT, you can see how the difference memory clock gives on the new Intel Haswell platform.
Synthetic memory bandwidth won’t show effective performance in daily work so please also look at other benchmarks.
HyperPi 32M
HyperPi 32M is one of the most popular overclocker’s benchmarks that really likes fast memory. Here we see how memory speed affects multithreaded calculations.
DDR3-1866 is too low to beat most other memory in this comparison but we see that it’s better than the single sided Team Group kit, which runs at DDR3-2666.
Cinebench 11.5
Cinebench 11.5 is rendering benchmark so something which is showing us more daily work than synthetic bandwidth tests.
In this test Crucial Ballistix Sport XT is fastest which is quite unexpected. The difference between all memory kits isn’t big but it shows that memory speed isn’t affecting daily work using the latest Intel platform.
MaxxMem Preview 1.99
At the end MaxxMem Preview 1.99, a single threaded benchmark that shows memory bandwidth. Memory writes are pretty good but all other results looks low compared to the other (higher clocked) memory.
Overclocking
Knowing the latest Crucial memory series I haven’t been expecting really high memory clocks. While overclocking I was able to boot at 1200MHz ( DDR3-2400 ) but it wasn’t stable at all and after couple of seconds system was freezing or showing a blue screen.
Maximum stable settings were 1066MHz ( DDR3-2133 ) 10-11-11-30, Command Rate 1N and voltage slightly below the 1.65V mark.
More detailed settings of the maximum successful overclock are below.
Even though it doesn’t look like a great result, it’s a pretty good setting for a 2x8GB memory kit if we are looking at daily performance or a gaming PC.
Raising voltage didn’t help to achieve higher memory clock or to set tighter timings.
