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Everest
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Synthetic numbers are simply the best way to show you the exact difference between timings and frequencies. Something that is very hard to show with games. Above three separate CPU tests with (as comparison) some Athlons kicked in there. Floating Point performance is a tad off but overall that's mighty performance.
Once we overclock and thus rise that FSB we see memory performance go up fast.
Again we can see that memory is struggling here. We used the latest Corsair CAS3 latency kit (2x1GB) very disappointing was the write and copy performance. This might be a bug on this beta board though. I guess other web reviews can confirm that.
Let's go into some actual real-word performance testing.
