Testing
In the past I ran the full battery of benchmarks when testing memory. Keep in mind that memory speed is only a part of the overall system, and overclocking memory alone only marginally affects most benchmark numbers, if at all. I have often said that benchmarks do not tell the entire story, and I feel that it could even be counter-productive when someone sees that overclocking the memory only increased a game by .2 FPS. So for the past few months I have only been running memory-specific benchmarks when testing memory.
I ran the tests at the advertised clock of DDR3-1600 8-8-8-24, and again at my overclock of DDR3-1656 9-9-9-28.
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