Lavalys Everest 5.0.1667 Memory Performance

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Stock memory performance is considerably lower than the AMD chipset motherboards, despite the fact the memory controller is within the CPU and we're using the same hardware across the range, the BIOS has clearly not been optimised as is shown in the 300-400MB/s drop in memory performance and the 10 per cent loss of copy performance.

Overclocked, and the MSI board offered performance in line with 790FX motherboards twice the price: we achieved a 2.6GHz stable CPU-northbridge and 1,600MHz memory at its stock CAS-8 settings that yielded a considerable performance boost over the other boards.

These results are also mirrored in the latency results too: slow at stock, but nippy when overclocked.

SiSoftware Sandra Lite 2009 SP3 Home Professional

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Sisoft Sandra's multi-threaded tests tells much the same story, but to a larger degree: very poor stock performance that turns into a huge increase when overclocked.