Kingston's HyperX Sets DDR3 World Speed Record

[refillable]

Clap hand for this

 

[DSpider]

[citation][nom]mrazeemtahir[/nom]Eventhough Intel outperforms AMD at most, or probably ALL tests, why do these AMDs OC better? Any particular reason? And that must be why our Mr. Matose here used an AMD rig, and not an Intel one. Plus, these AMD boards OC better than Intel ones. Why is that???????[/citation]
Depends very much on the architecture, not the gigahertz overclocking potential. You can take an old Athlon XP and overclock it to 2.5+ GHz, but an i7 at 1.6 GHz will mop the floor with it. Same if you overclock a Pentium 4 at 2.8 GHz and pin it against an underclocked Phenom II at 2 GHz; the Phenom II will come out on top (the Pentium 4 from back in the 2000's can roughly be compared against today's Intel Atom).

It's all about the architecture. It's not that AMD processors are better because they can reach over 9000 clocks per nanosecond.

 

[kikireeki]

Nice but again useless!

 

[Sasha the BOLD]

I'm not one to bother with overclocking RAM, but it seems to me there could be a larger impact on performance if you lowered latencies rather than raising MHz.

Personally, I'd be curious to see Tom's do a test of the impact on system speed/performance of changing these numbers. What gives the greatest real-world performance boost: lowering CL, lowering tRCD, lowering tRP, lowering CAS, or raising MHz? Help us decide if we should spring for faster RAM or lower-latency RAM, or if the money is better spent on a different component of the rig.

 

[cybersans]

in order to increase speed, you need to sacrifice the latency.

 

[azeemtahir]

No, but we are talking about the Bulldozer vs. Sandy or Ivy here, aren't we? My question is what is inside the AMDs that isn't inside the Intels. I'm specifically talking about the clocks. In addition, why do the RAMs OC better on AMDs? I mean, look at all the RAM speed records on CPU-Z. And the processor speed records. Why is AMD stable at way higher clocks than Intel? And why is RAM more stable on AMDs, even though Intel rigs are the winning combination? I mean, if Intels could boast more clocks, at least as good as the AMD counterpart(s) (or whatever is the nearest Apple to Apple), no one would even give two ***** about an AMD. Right?

 

[robthatguyx]

lol thats clocked faster than my cpu is pc tech is moving fast