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| by Mike D. | December 8, 2009 | ||
| Memory Benchmarks Memory Benchmarks Since we hit a pretty hard wall when overclocking the memory on our Phenom II processor, we’ll show you the impact of tightening timings and increasing northbridge frequency. These alternatives can have a significant impact on memory subsystem performance. Lavalys Everest Ultimate v5.02 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.  As you can see, nothing impacts memory performance as much as northbridge clock frequency. In our experience, just about any Phenom II should be able to reach 2.4GHz, and with some extra volts, 2.6+ should be achievable. So before you go stressing out trying to get your DDR3 running at 1600MHz, try to boost your NB frequency first. The move from 7-7-7 to 6-6-6 timings did surprisingly little for memory bandwidth.  We see a very similar picture painted with respect to latency. Northbridge frequency increases make significant improvements. | ||
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