ASUS Rampage Extreme X48 Motherboard Review

Memory Benchmarks

Everest Ultimate is the most useful tool for any and all bench markers or overclockers. With the ability to read most voltage, temperature, and fan sensors on almost every motherboard available, Everest provides the ability to customize the outputs in a number of forms for display on your desktop. In addition to this, the memory benchmarking provides a useful tool of measuring the changes to your memory sub-system when tweaking to measure the differences.

Looking at bandwidth, it is obvious that the overclocked setup is in a class on its own. 12.5K read and over 10K write bandwidth are very nice looking numbers, especially from a daily setup. At the same time, the 9K read bandwidth put up by the lowly 333FSB DDR3-1333 is not too shabby either for the frequency. That is the beauty of a tRD of 5.

Again there really is no competition but in reality, there isn't suppose to be between these two setups. Hitting a staggeringly low 41.2 ns in Everest on a daily rig is again, quite impressive to say the least. The simple fact is that this overclock we achieved on this motherboard is substantially faster than anything we have done before. The north bridge is running a very high FSB for the low tRD=6 that it is, and doing it with very reasonable voltage.

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.

ScienceMark simply confirms our Everest findings because 10K in ScienceMark is usually equivalent to what we see with our write results we achieved from Everest.