Asus Rampage Formula X48 Motherboard Review

Memory Benchmarks

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 provides a useful tool of measuring the changes to your memory sub-system

Going from the stock clocks up to our overclocked settings is quite a significant improvement in all aspects of memory bandwidth. This is no surprise since we make a rather hefty jump from 3GHz for the CPU and DDR2-1066 up to DDR2-1216 and 4.1GHz for CPU frequency. These numbers could be inflated further had we gone with a lower tRD and with brief testing, the memory bandwidth continues to scale very well with tighter tRD values.

Like the bandwidth, the Everest latency results show a marked improvement going from stock to the overclock. A 50.5ns result in Everest for this setup is very respectable and again, a slightly tighter tRD would get us into the 40s.

ScienceMark is an almost ancient benchmark utility at this point in time and hasn't seen an update in a long time. It is, however, still a favorite for accurately calculating bandwidth on even the newest chipsets.

Again, we receive a substantial increase in bandwidth going from stock to our stable overclock settings. An overall total of a 25% increase in bandwidth lets us know that the memory sub system is really benefiting from the increase in frequencies. We will now see how this increase in bandwidth will equate into performance in a variety of programs.