G.Skill DDR3-2000 C7 Flare Stress test

G.Skill DDR3-2000 C7 Flare with a Phenom II X6 1090T 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 we can just flick on the XMP profile (see below) and at default we'll have the memory running at 2000 MHz CAS 7, surprisingly enough it ran 1T without any issues. Our motherboard reads the memory profile and applies optimal settings accordingly, including voltage set at 1.65V.

Do you see that XMP-2000 profile? If you have a decent motherboard or at least the one of the ASUS M4A89TD PRO, ASUS M4A89GTD PRO or ASUS M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 motherboards, in the BIOS you will be allowed to to load up and apply that profile in the BIOS.

• Upside: your memory runs pre-configured at 2000 MHz C7
• Downside -- your system will start to get overclocked a bit as the profile requires the baseclock to be run higher.

So there's no way of running this memory at 2000 MHz with a default clocked processor (200 MHz base clock) -- make no mistake, overclocking is a requirement.

By having this as fixed option -- we can now run tests in-between standard 1333 MHz and 2000 MHz quite reliable with that processor fixed at 3250 MHz.

Once you applied the tweak you are good to go.

So here we have the memory screaming at 2000 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 ran a full sequence of Prime95 here which finished without any problems. Prime95 is both CPU and Memory dependant, 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 2000 MHz CAS7 1T is absolutely flawless stable.

Here you can see the memory clocked at 2000 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 real-world. Now it's not exactly Core i7 bandwidth, but for an AMD setup this is pretty nice performance alright.

Let's have a look at some charts and games.