ASUS Crosshair III Formula AM3 Motherboard Review

Memory Benchmarks

Everest Ultimate

Everest is a jack of all trade's monitoring and benchmarking tool. It is a wizz at reporting system stats such as temperatures, voltages and current speed settings. It also functions tremendously well as a basic benchmarking tool, primarily in the testing of memory. Our Everest test performs a quick read, write and copy test on the memory to give an accurate idea of their performance and measure changes when over clocked.


Even with an onboard memory controller, and running unganged, DDR3 and AMD memory are seemingly slow when compared ram utilization by Intel's core i7. Overall however, the system performs right on par, and our modest overclock tweaks out some nice over clocked results. The CPU-NB was kept as Asus' auto setting, which it decided would be 2380MHz. The results are a bit lackluster however, given the rather substantial boost to the bus speed; though the average 8-8-8-15 timings on the ram, may be partially at fault for performance.


The latency testing mimics the above, with the overclocked ram receiving modest results, though seemingly not gaining near as much of a boost as expected over the stock clocks.


Sciencemark v2.0

Sciencemark is a seemingly outdated system and memory subsystem testing suite. While old, its hardware benchmarking features are still relative in reflecting system performance, if only for comparison's sake.


Sciencemark shows us much of the same. As the suite crunches multiple aspects of the memory performance along with other hardware a larger gap is shown reflecting the improvement of the utilization of the overclocked CPU.