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Today, we're looking at the G.Skill Ripjaws X series memory, an Intel XMP compatible memory that runs at 2133MHz. Keep reading to find out how it performs! http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Revi...?d=yIl2AUoC8zA http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Revi...tE:V_sGLiPBpWU http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Revi...?d=qj6IDK7rITs http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/Revi...tE:gIN9vFwOqvQ
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Oh cool review, as I was actually looking at getting this very set. I would say a 1000 increase in 3dmarks for 11 is quite a bit just based on a RAM upgrade.
I will be honest I was quite surprised as well but being that I was running SLI 580's I am guessing they needed alot of bandwidth to feed em :)Quote:
Originally Posted by PP Mguire
I wouldn't doubt, but still usually RAM doesn't play much of a role in synthetic benchmarks. Maybe Futuremark did something right with this one for a change.
Yeah 3D11 they went away from trying to similate peopel which has been pretty awful in the past to just scenery, but then again the bench is a bit more boring as well so its a give/take.Quote:
Originally Posted by PP Mguire
but 3d11 as a whole seems to respond more to memory frequency vs previous benches..
but still doesnt scale on multi cpu boards as well :)
BTW thanks for reading the review!
I always read all the reviews here on my free time. I know you guys so I know the reviews are legit.
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Originally Posted by PP Mguire
We do the best we can, This kit isnt bad especially for the price! there are some kits with a lil better timings which if your benchmarking then look at those.... for gaming these ones will do fine.
Nothing a little tweaking can't handle ;)
It sucks that almost all Ripjaw sticks are 2t. Still for 99 bucks at Newegg these are a steal for an 8GB kit.
when you get a chance test 1t vs 2t.... its not the dramatic affect it had on DDR2Quote:
Originally Posted by PP Mguire
Yea, I think it's more principle than anything. I currently have my sticks at 2t for a clock of 2150. The faster RAM helped my CPU clock out and the 2t made it happen. What's sad is even overclocked my sticks have better timings than this RAM.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShannonR
Were you able to tweak the timing at all? I'm sure overclocking is out of the question with a SB setup, but timings can help too I suppose.
I will try some tweaking on it, but honestly most people dont venture into timing adjustment as data can get corrupt really fast so I try to represent it the way most people would use them..Quote:
Originally Posted by PP Mguire
(this coming from the guy who runs every SB board he has reviewed so far at 4.8GHz :P)
You know PP and Shannon, you guys brought a good point up. I wonder know how much performance difference I would see with three GTX 580s in SLI if I would upgrade from 1600MHz to 2133MHz... but then again, I can't wait for SB-E and 2400MHz Quad-Channel memory! :P That should be super awesome! As long as my knowledge is correct on those memory specs that I have seen somewhere.
I believe it will still be 2133 at quad or even lower. I personally don't think SB-E will be what everyone thinks it will be. Don't get me wrong, it will still pwn like no other, but I think it just wont be aimed towards the elitist's like we think.
You are running 1600 still? tsk tsk. And yea, I think you will see a big difference in a lot of areas by upping the RAM.
Well at this point we can only go off of what we can find online. This is what I was talking about: http://www.softpedia.com/reviews/win...w-222013.shtml
That's even better than the Dominator GT set that was release in 32GB 1866 flavor. Still, I think anyone who needs that much leeway should probably build a proper workstation, but then again that is kind of what I was getting at with SB-E in my last post. I really don't think this platform is aimed towards gamers and enthusiasts. I believe Intel is leaving that for Z68/P67 and AMD.