G.Skill DDR3-1600 C7 Trident Stress test

G.Skill DDR3-1600 C7 Trident with a Core i7 965X processor

Okay let's fire up CPU-Z so you can check out a little how we have the system configured.

So in the BIOS typically you can just flick on the XMP profile (see below) and at default we'll have the memory running at 1333 MHz CAS 9, JEDEC timings. Surprisingly enough you'll notice that at advertised frequency and timings this memory runs 1T without any issues.

Do you see that XMP-1600  profile? If you have a decent motherboard then in the BIOS you will be allowed to to load up and apply that profile in the BIOS, thus pre-configured at 1600 MHz C7 / 1.65V

By having this as fixed option -- we can now run tests in-between standard 1333 MHz and 1600 MHz very reliable and likely even a little more once we overclock. We applied the settings manually.

Once you applied the tweak you are good to go.

So here we have the memory at 1600 MHz. And yes this is CAS 7 and a command rate of T1 -- the VDIMM voltage is set towards 1.65v at this stage. We run Prime95 here which finished without any problems, the screenshot was taken before finishing though.

Prime95 is very CPU and Memory intensive, any errors as a result of overclocking or bad memory and one of the worker threads would go red and result in an error. So we established that 1600 MHz CAS7 1T is absolutely flawless stable.

Here you can see the memory clocked at 1600 MHz CAS 7 yet now you can spot the read performance. We'll look into all numbers in the next pages where we'll address memory performance both synthetic and with real-world applications.

Notice that we already are at 16600 MB/sec ... with merely 4GB dual-channel memory DIMMS, keep that in mind at all times. But let's have a look at some charts and games.