ASUS Rampage II Extreme X58 Motherboard Review

Memory Benchmarks

Everest Ultimate v4.50

Everest Ultimate is the most useful tool for any and all benchmarkers or overclockers. With the ability to pick up most voltage, temperature, and fan sensors on almost every motherboard available, Everest provides the ability to customize the outputs in a number of forms on your desktop. In addition to this, the memory benchmarking utility provides a useful tool of measuring the changes to your memory sub-system.



Since we used a DDR3-1600 memory speed for both our stock and overclocked configurations it is no surprise that the results are so even. Based on these results, it is also clear that the BCLK has no discernible effect on performance, and this despite a 58% increase. Likewise the increase in CPU, Uncore, and QPI speeds have not helped improve memory performance. Nevertheless, the Core i7 platform's triple-channel interface delivers an immense amount of memory bandwidth and it absolutely destroys even the most highly-clocked Core 2 system.



Memory latency is slightly reduced on our overclocked setup, but the difference is so small that it can be attributed to a normal benchmarking variance. These latency results are still very, very impressive and you clearly see the benefits of the integrated memory controller (IMC).


ScienceMark v2.0

Although last updated almost 3 years ago, and despite its rudimentary interface, ScienceMark v2.0 remains a favorite for accurately calculating bandwidth on even the newest chipsets.



Unlike in Everest, ScienceMark reveals a respectable 7% increase in memory bandwidth going from the stock to overclocked settings. We will have to run some further tests to determine how ScienceMark's benchmarking process differs from Everest's, in hopes of determining which most accurately tests memory performance.