Crucial Ballistix 2GB 1600MHz DDR3 Memory Kit Review

Everest Ultimate 4.00

Everest Ultimate Edition 4.00 Build 1142:

Everst Ultimate Edition is a professional system information, diagnostics and benchmarking program for Win32 platforms. It extracts details of all components of the PC. It also tests the actual read and write speeds of your memory giving a fairly accurate look of true memory performance.

Read Test:

Write Test:

The Copy Test:

Memory Latency Testing:

Results: Everest Ultimate 4.00 build 1142 showed slight differences between the Corsair 1600MHz and OCZ 1600MHz memory kits, but it wasn’t significant. It just goes to show the difference between 7-6-6 and 7-7-7 timings doesn’t impact synthetic memory bandwidth benchmarks. The Crucial Ballistix does good in all the tests, but the higher timings show on the read and latency tests.

Now let’s move on to some Sandra XII benchmarking!