as to the level of performance you
should expect. You will see in the
results that there is more to gain
with just tuning the secondary
and tertiary timings (in the very
odd way this motherboard allows)
than you could possibly find with
the primaries when dealing with
memory. Especially when you’re
looking at sticking to the regular
operating voltage or when you have
IC’s that just do not lend themselves
well to your particular motherboard
and CPU combination. These are
the things, which make the largest
difference and it is worth noting all
of this in an effort to make the best
out of your purchase.
Again tuning memory is a lengthy
process, which may take anywhere
from tens of hours to days on end.
Even with just testing a single stick
at a time in the various channels,
it will take a while, considering
you must for each setting (within
reason), test for stability with Hyper
Pi 32M at the very least and other
benchmarks which will make use
of all the available memory without
error. Days on end can be spent
on a single stick even when you’re
well aware of what ICs are used for
the memory. This is a second look
at what the CORSAIR DOMINATOR
PLATINUM Limited Edition 3400MHz
kit is capable of with just some
time and tuning. When cooled it will
perform and scale even better, but
all of what follows is achieved via
regular air cooling and certainly
numbers most systems are capable
of achieving, especially where
SuperPi 32M is concerned. It only
dawned on me far after having done
the days of testing that the windows
7 operating system used was much
slower than Windows 8.1 that I
would normally use. Yes, Super Pi
is best run on Windows XP/2000
and the like, but this exercise isn’t
an attempt at showing the 7minute
18seconds or less experts in Super
Pi 32M can achieve at 4GHz. It’s to
show that there is more to this kit
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