These tests were completed using the following hardware: Core i7 920, MSI Eclipse SLI motherboard, Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 1GB, 3x 2GB Corsair DDR3-1,066 at 6-5-5-15-1T, Seagate 7200.10 250GB SATA HDD.

Lavalys Everest 4.60.1540 Beta

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The Service Pack 2 beta starts off well in our Everest tests with an extra 434MB/sec of read bandwidth (3.6 percent) and 323MB/sec of copy bandwidth (2.3 percent). Write bandwidth hasn't changed a great deal though and that could easily be down to experimental error, with just 18MB/sec higher write speeds with SP2 beta installed. Despite these performance improvements, we found that memory latency dropped off by approximately 1ns - that's hardly the end of the world though.

SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2009.SP1 Beta (15.42)

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Sandra's Unbuffered memory test didn't show the same performance differences as Everest and our Service Pack 1 installation actually turned out to be faster by about 160MB/sec, which equates to less than one percent - that's well within experimental error. Although the memory test doesn't tell the same story as Everest, Sandra's memory latency test does tell a similar story - memory latency under SP2 beta is 1ns higher.