Slayer0fLight
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Hello, I decided to examine the difference in performance when it comes to RAM in the Unigine Valley 2.0 benchmark test. I figured that it would be fun to share my results. I got an email about an awesome deal for EVGA SuperSC 16GB 2400MHz RAM for $99.99 at Micro Center. It turns out that the price was a typo and was suppose to have a $119.99 advertised price. The good news is that they honored the e-mail price for me, so that made me super happy to get 2400MHz RAM for $99.99!!! I have an i7-2600k, meaning I can only run 2133MHz. Anyway, here are my results. RIG: Thermaltake Core V71 ASRock z77 Extreme4 i7-2600k OC 4.6GHz EVGA GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0 EVGA SuperSC 2133MHz RAM Thermaltake Water 2.0 Pro Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200W OLD RAM: 1600 Corsair Vengeance Blue Part Number: CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B • Memory Size (Total): 8GB (2pcs) • Memory Type: DDR3 • Clockspeed: 1600 MHz • Timing: 9-9-9-24 • Pin Out: 240-pin • Voltage: 1.5v • Channels: Dual • XMP Support: 1.2 NEW RAM: 2400 SuperSC DDR3 Series (16GB) Part Number: 16G-D3-2400-MR • Memory Type: DDR3 • Memory Size (Total): 16GB (2pcs) • Clockspeed: 2400 MHz (Tested at 2133MHz) • Timings: 11-13-13-31 • Voltage: 1.65V • Channels: Dual • XMP Support: 1.3 It looks like I got a 21% increase on Ultra 1080P 0XAA and 5% increase on Ultra 1080P 8XAA.
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z999z3mystorys
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Re: 1600MHz RAM VS 2133MHz RAM Benchmark
Monday, May 11, 2015 2:13 PM
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and here I was thinking ram speed does next to nothing? interesting results :)
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bdary
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Re: 1600MHz RAM VS 2133MHz RAM Benchmark
Monday, May 11, 2015 2:59 PM
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Could the difference in scores be due to you running different graphics drivers? I see on your 1600MHz ram runs, you were using driver 347.88, but when you did the runs with 2133MHz ram, you used 350.12. Slayer0fLight
Hello, I decided to examine the difference in performance when it comes to RAM in the Unigine Valley 2.0 benchmark test. I figured that it would be fun to share my results. I got an email about an awesome deal for EVGA SuperSC 16GB 2400MHz RAM for $99.99 at Micro Center. It turns out that the price was a typo and was suppose to have a $119.99 advertised price. The good news is that they honored the e-mail price for me, so that made me super happy to get 2400MHz RAM for $99.99!!! I have an i7-2600k, meaning I can only run 2133MHz. Anyway, here are my results.
RIG:
Thermaltake Core V71
ASRock z77 Extreme4
i7-2600k OC 4.6GHz
EVGA GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0
EVGA SuperSC 2133MHz RAM
Thermaltake Water 2.0 Pro
Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200W
OLD RAM:
1600 Corsair Vengeance Blue
Part Number: CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B
• Memory Size (Total): 8GB (2pcs)
• Memory Type: DDR3
• Clockspeed: 1600 MHz
• Timing: 9-9-9-24
• Pin Out: 240-pin
• Voltage: 1.5v
• Channels: Dual
• XMP Support: 1.2
NEW RAM:
2400 SuperSC DDR3 Series (16GB)
Part Number: 16G-D3-2400-MR
• Memory Type: DDR3
• Memory Size (Total): 16GB (2pcs)
• Clockspeed: 2400 MHz (Tested at 2133MHz)
• Timings: 11-13-13-31
• Voltage: 1.65V
• Channels: Dual
• XMP Support: 1.3
It looks like I got a 21% increase on Ultra 1080P 0XAA and 5% increase on Ultra 1080P 8XAA.
 
post edited by bdary - Monday, May 11, 2015 3:02 PM
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z999z3mystorys
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Re: 1600MHz RAM VS 2133MHz RAM Benchmark
Monday, May 11, 2015 5:15 PM
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hmm yeah, drivers could be the reason, memory is one of those things that, as long as you have enough of it, isn't going to be a limiting factor in most cases (unless you're using something that is very memory speed focused)
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bcavnaugh
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Re: 1600MHz RAM VS 2133MHz RAM Benchmark
Monday, May 11, 2015 7:21 PM
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1600 MHz -v- 2133 MHz and 8GB -v- 16GB of Memory. Different Graphics Drivers Different Version of Unigine Valley? But Glad to see users using the New EVGA Memory. Put your old Memory back in and run SuperPI.exe and then your New EVGA Memory and run SuperPI.exe and report the scores. Run SuperPi @ 32M SuperPi 32M: 7m 16.756s Memory at 2400MHz Same Memory One set Auto *Right one and one Set to XMP 1 @ 2133MHz No other Changes in the Bios made.  2133MHz http://www.superpi.net/Scores/24002/View 1333MHz http://www.superpi.net/Scores/24003/View
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Re: 1600MHz RAM VS 2133MHz RAM Benchmark
Sunday, May 24, 2015 12:57 AM
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I would also like details as to who's IC chips my new evga ssc ddr3 2400 memory has please this would be helpful . when overclocking ram you need to know which IC's are being used. I have know complains with the ram its very quick and XMP worked perfectly, I saw pictures of the IC's but they didn't have any part #.
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HRPuffnstuff
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Re: 1600MHz RAM VS 2133MHz RAM Benchmark
Monday, May 25, 2015 1:18 AM
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One thing to consider is that the 1600 is running tighter timings than the faster memory. My memory score stayed the same when I doubled up to 16gb, however it doesn't perform any faster because of the timings. Too bad we can't get 2400 with cas8 timings and then we'd see a performance increase.
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Re: 1600MHz RAM VS 2133MHz RAM Benchmark
Monday, May 25, 2015 5:59 AM
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EVGA RAM look better than Vengeance and GSkill Ripjaws... But this is invincible style. I would produce hardware with such style and design, all... and nice packages.  With water cooling loop, silver, black, full black motherboards these kits are killer.
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