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GeIL Black Dragon GB36GB1600C8TC - Benchmark

Friday, 26 February 2010 09:08 Laptopfreak

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GeIL Black Dragon GB36GB1600C8TC
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Benchmark

Test Setup:

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Motherboard:
MSI Eclipse SLI X58

CPU
Intel Core I7 950

RAM
- G.Skill Trident PC3-16000 3*2 GB
- Kingston HyperX PC3-16000 3*1 GB
- Geil Black Dragon PC3-12800 3*2 GB

Hard drive:
Samsung Spinpoint F1 160 GB

GPU:
Sapphire HD5770 1 GB in crossfire (10.1 Catalyst driver)

Power supply:
Nexus RX 1000 Watt

Operating system:
Windows 7 RC 64 bit

Test software:

- Lavalys Everest Ultimate
- Sisoft Sandra 2010
- Sciencemark v2.0
- Superpi mod v1.5
- Winrar 500 MB test

The first benchmark we run is Superpi 32M, which tests the processor by calculating Pi decimals. The RAM have a pretty big influence on the outcome though.

SuperPi 32M

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Surprising enough the GeIL RAM beat the two faster 2000MHz set by several seconds.
The test was rerun several times, and the result remained the same. The problem might be that both the G.Skill and Kingston sets were tested with another setup with a W3540 CPU clocked slightly lower than the one used in this setup.

Everest

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The GeIL RAM must admit defeat to the two quicker sets in this test.

ScienceMark
ScienceMark is the next benchmark. It tests RAM performance in a similar way to Everest.

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Once again GeIL is beaten by the two other sets, whose extra megahertz increase speed quite a bit.

Sisoft Sandra

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The same results as in the previous tests occur here. The GeIL RAM come in third, though not far behind the Kingston set.

WinRar 500 MB

We round off with a timed, 500MB Winrar test.

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Little separates the three sets, but again the GeIL set comes in last.
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Overclocking

GeIL are perhaps not known for making the best overclocking RAM. Rather, they are known for their stability, but this set turned that impression of GeIL upside-down.
The RAM were mounted in the motherboard and a pot of dry ice was placed upon the processor. The dry ice was put in the pot along with a splash of acetone, and 10 minutes later the RAM ran at 1800MHz and CL8 timings at 1.75 volts.

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- Standard speed 1600MHz
- Overclock speed 1800MHz

Difference: 12%

That is quite a difference when you consider the set caters to gamers. The overclock was stable in everything from Everest to Superpi. Unfortunately all benchmark results were lost, so we cannot put a number on the impact of the overclocked RAM on the results. We are working on retrieving the lost results.