Lavalys Everest 5.0.1667 Memory Performance

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At stock speeds, the 1,066MHz DDR2 on the Gene clearly outperforms the Gigabyte P45 board at 800MHz by some margin in read and copy speeds, and has a lot lower latency - over 10ns. However, when overclocked, the Gigabyte turns the tables simply because it likes to clock the memory as much as we want.

In comparison the Gene doesn't like the memory touched when overclocked, and any attempt to set a custom timing rather than the Auto setting caused it to fail the POST. This meant that the memory speed when overclocked was actually less than at stock speed - with only the increased CPU clock itself countering the drop to improve performance slightly in read and latency.

SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2009 SP3 Home Professional

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The same thing happens here - while at stock speeds the Gene affords impressive memory bandwidth compared to the Gigabyte board, when overclocked the Gigabyte offers far more memory performance potential.