Do note that all the SANDRA benchmarks are synthetic and thus may not tally with real-life performance. The latter stands for whatever your environment is, i.e. which applications you run with what amount of data and so on. It is up to you to decide whether what Sandra measures is what you want to measure.

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Below you can find the scores of Sandra starting with memory performance:

It is really difficult to understand what we present to you. Interpreting data in the way we tested and what we can show you simply is hard to comprehend, especially with all the mathematic BIOS timings and dividers. Memory tweaking and overclocking is close to science.

You'll notice the 6 GB kit memory at ranges from 800 MHz up-to a pretty wicked reaching level of an overclocked1866 MHz. Then to place things a little in perspective we used a set of DDR2 dual channel memory on a Phenom X4 9950, which offer great performance, but nearly is being put to a shame. 

In Red you'll notice the memory at advertised 1600 MHz with 9:9:9:24 timings. And yes, Sandra reports back over 27 GB/sec.

Everest Ultimate Edition
EVEREST offers accurate hardware information and diagnostics capabilities, including online features, memory benchmarks, hardware monitoring, and low-level hardware information. EVEREST Home Edition is optimized for Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems.

With Everest we'll look at two different tests, as we'll measure both memory read and write performance. In red again the memory at 1600 MHz with CAS 9. The command rate, I forgot to mention this, is 1 T.

So when we take it up a notch at 1866 MHz, we do have to drop to CAS 11 unfortunately. But still ... that's a jaw breaking 18220 MB per second of bandwidth measured. That's crazy when you think about the fact a normal average age PC these days with DDR2 memory will reach 6000-8000 MB/sec.

The results in write performance scale a little more intense. In green the 1600 MHz 9:9:9:24 timings, and in dark blue on top our memory at 1866 MHz. That's nearly 15 sec memory write performance. This is likely the maximum you'll gain from these modules though.

If you like to get a grasp on how much data that is. Try moving around a full 4.7 GB DVD from your HD to another HD. Now this memory can do manage that over 3.3 in just one second.