Test Setup
CPU Intel Core i7-6700K
Cooling Corsair H110i GTX
Motherboard MSI Z170A GAMING M7
Graphics XFX R7970 Black Edition
Storage OCZ Vector 180
PSU Corsair HX1050 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU
Cooling Corsair H110i GTX
Motherboard MSI Z170A GAMING M7
Graphics XFX R7970 Black Edition
Storage OCZ Vector 180
PSU Corsair HX1050 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU
We’ll be testing the following DDR4 memory kits in today’s review:
- Corsair Vengeance LED 32GB 3200MHz
- G.SKILL TridentZ 16GB 3200MHz
- Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 16GB 2400MHz
- Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB 3000MHz
The above offers a mixture of smaller capacity with higher/lower frequency and large capacity with high frequency. This should present us with a good demonstration as to how capacity and frequency affects performance.
To benchmark these DDR4 kits we’ll be using the following benchmarking applications:
AIDA64
Futuremark PCMark 8 (Home Conventional Suite)
Futuremark PCMark 8 with Microsoft Office 2016
SiSoftware SANDRA
Futuremark 3DMark
Futuremark PCMark 8 (Home Conventional Suite)
Futuremark PCMark 8 with Microsoft Office 2016
SiSoftware SANDRA
Futuremark 3DMark
Overclocking
Most users will use their DDR4 under the XMP profile but we can push memory beyond their tested specifications. Although there isn’t a large amount of headroom when we overclock we were able to nudge up the frequency to 3474MHz…
To achieve a stable result below we did have to slacken the timings off and increase the voltage.
Corsair Vengeance LED 32GB 3200MHz
- OC: 3474MHz 19-25-25-39 @ 1.4v
