Review: Corsair DOMINATOR DDR3-1,600 C8: bandwidth for Core i7

by Tarinder Sandhu on 25 December 2008, 05:00 3.55

Tags: DOMINATOR DDR3-1,600 CL8 6GB, Corsair

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Multithreadred performance, plus loading times

wPrime multithreaded - 1024M calculation
Corsair DDR3-1,600 CL8 6GB DOMCrucial DDR3-1,066 CL7 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,333 CL9 3GB
242.22243.11242.68


DivX 6.8.3 + LAME encoding, enhanced multithreading on
Corsair DDR3-1,600 CL8 6GB DOMCrucial DDR3-1,066 CL7 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,333 CL9 3GB
87.3288.2788.81


The lack of performance differentiation continues with our multi-threaded benchmarks. It's all the more surprising considering that DDR3-1,600 memory raises the uncore speed of the Core i7 965 EE CPU which, in turn, increases the memory-controller and L3 cache speed.

Far Cry 2 loading benchmark loading times
Corsair DDR3-1,600 CL8 6GB DOMCrucial DDR3-1,066 CL7 6GBCrucial DDR3-1,333 CL9 3GB
44.945.547.9


Benchmark loading times, too, are pretty close. 6GB of RAM is a little better than 3GBs here, though.