DDR4 Haswell-E Scaling Review: 2133 to 3200 with G.Skill, Corsair, ADATA and Crucial

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• jabber - Friday, February 6, 2015 - link

  Well I've added into my T5400 workstation USB3.0, eSATA, 7870 GPU, SSHD and SSD. I haven't added SATA III as its way too costly for a decent card, plus even though I can only push 260MBps from a SSD, with 0.1ms access times I really can't notice in real world. The main chunk of the machine only cost around £200 to put together.

• Striker579 - Friday, February 6, 2015 - link

  omg those retro color mb's....good times

• Wardrop - Saturday, February 7, 2015 - link

  Wow, how did you accidentally insert your motherboard model in the middle of the word "provide"? Quite an impressive typo, lol

• msroadkill612 - Saturday, September 2, 2017 - link

  To be the devils advocate, many say there are few downside for most using 8 lane gpu vs 16 lanes for gpu.
  
  if nvme an ssd means reducing to 8 lanes for gpu to free some lanes, I would be tempted.

• FlushedBubblyJock - Sunday, February 15, 2015 - link

  Core 2 is getting weak - right click and open ttask manager then see how often your quad is maxxed at 100% useage (you can minimize and check the green rectangle by the clock for percent used).
  
  That's how to check it - if it's hammered it's time to sell it and move up. You might be quite surprised what a large jump it is to Sandy Bridge.

• blanarahul - Thursday, February 5, 2015 - link

  TOTALLY OFF TOPIC but this is how Samsung's current SSD lineup should be:
  
  850: 120 GB, 250 GB TLC with TurboWrite
  
  850 Pro: 128 GB, 256 GB MLC
  
  850 EVO: 500/512 GB, 1000/1024 GB TLC w/o TurboWrite
  
  Because:
  a) 500 GB and 1000 GB 850 EVOs don't get any speed benefit from TurboWrite.
  b) 512/1024 GB PRO has only 10 MB/s sequential read, 2K IOPS and 12/24 GB capacity advantage over 500/1000 GB EVO. Sequential write speed, advertised endurance, random write speed, features etc. are identical between them.
  c) Remove TurboWrite from 850 EVO and you get a capacity boost because you are no longer running TLC NAND in SLC mode.

• Cygni - Thursday, February 5, 2015 - link

  Considering what little performance impact these memory standards have had lately, DDR2 is essentially just as useful and relevant as the latest stuff... with the added of advantage of the fact that you already own it.

• FlushedBubblyJock - Sunday, February 15, 2015 - link

  If you screw around long enough on core 2 boards with slight and various cpu OC's with differing FSB's and result memory divisors and timings with mechanical drives present, you can sometimes produce and enormous performance increase and reduce boot times massively - the key seems to have been a differing sound in the speedy access of the mechanical hard drive - though it offten coincided with memory access time but not always.
  I assumed and still do assume it is an anomaly in the exchanges on the various buses where cpu, ram, harddrive, and the north and south bridges timings just happen to all jibe together - so no subsystem is delayed waiting for some other overlap to "re-access".
  
  I've had it happen dozens of times on many differing systems but never could figure out any formula and it was always just luck goofing with cpu and memory speed in the bios.
  I'm not certain if it works with ssd's on core 2's (socket 775 let's say) - though I assume it very well could but the hard drive access sound would no longer be a clue.

• retrospooty - Thursday, February 5, 2015 - link

  I love reviews like this... I will link it and keep it for every time some newb doof insists that high bandwidth RAM is important. We saw almost no improvement going from DDR400 cas2 to DDR3-1600 CAS10 now the same to DDR4 3000+ CAS freegin 80 LOL

• menting - Thursday, February 5, 2015 - link

  depends on usage. for applications that require high total bandwidth, new generations of memory will be better, but for applications that require short latency, there won't be much improvement due to physical restraints of light speed