AMD Performance Edition RAM Reviewed!
Hey there people!
how’s life going?
First of all a very Happy New year from the team and lets hope we can bring you more exciting reviews this year. Today on the test bench we have a new kits of ram from AMD. Its a Mainstream kit running at a modest 1600Mhz Cl8. Lets see how it stacks up!
Read on…
Product Showcase
Lets see how the thing looks..shall we?
The bos looks quite simple with Big branding on the front with a picture of the kits.
The back gives out some more information about the memory like the model no. OEM name(in this case Patriot) etc.
In the Box
Inside the box the memory is packed inside a blister pack which although pretty notorious worldwide is not very hard to open..Praise the lord!
So a nice little package without any junk.
Showcase Continues
More pictures
Next stop…benchmarks…
First up the OCFreaks’ system used for testing:
| CPU | Intel Core i5 2500K |
|---|---|
| Motherboard | Asus P8Z68 Deluxe |
| Ram | AMD Performance Edition 1600Mhz 8GB DDr3 |
| Storage | Western Digital 320GB HDD (WD320AAKX) |
| Video Card | Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 |
| Cooling | Noctua NH D14 with GT 1850 fans |
| Case | Ghetto made bench table |
| Power supply Unit | Corsair AX 1200W |
Software’s used for testing and benchmarking
- CPU-Z
- Aida 64 Extreme Edition
- Super PI XS Mod 1.5
Speed wise the kit is an Mixed bag of experience. It does boot up at stock speeds regardless of the platform.
Here are the results i got while overclocking and tweaking the ram :
Stock:
8-9-8-24 1600Mhz
A little more with CL9:
9-10-9-27-1867Mhz
Highest i could do..
10-10-10-30-1922Mhz
So overclocking was not as great as the previous Ram i tested,But then again that was an exceptional Kit.
On to the benchmark Results:
Not much to say about them..let the pics do the talking..i will give my views on the conclusion.
Final Words
The kit is basically a kit made by Patriot ,so i was expecting a mediocre performance.Frankly i didn’t expect this to to perform very high. And the kit delivered as expected..rock solid at Stock,little overclocking headroom.
So lets take a look at the pro’s and con’s:
Pro’s
- Good looks(somewhat).
- Small height so it doesn’t conflict with big tower coolers.
- Rock solid performance at stock.
Con’s
- Mediocre OC performance
- Availability
Finally a big thanks to Vedant Computer’s Kolkata for providing the sample. You can check out this ram and many more Components on their shop at:
26th Ganesh Chandra Avenue ,
Kolkata-700013 ,
Phone:2212-9832,2212-8793
Signing Out,
Sumon Pathak
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