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Core i7 Dual Channel vs Triple Channel Memory Test
Author: Jim Manis
Published: Thursday, April 23, 2009
System Set-up
The system as it was tested
Intel I7 920 2.66GHZ
DFI LP JR X58 T3H6
G.Skill DDR3 1600 RAM F3-12800CL8T 6GBPI-B
Seagate 500GB Sata HDD
Windows 7 Beta Build 7000
DDR2 Reference System
Intel QX9650 EE 2.93GHZ
DFI LP JR P45 T2RS
Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 Ram
Seagate 250GB Sata HDD
Windows XP MCE 2005 Service pack 3
For the purposes of this article we will be looking at the effects of Dual Channel Memory vs Triple Channel memory. Below are the various memory setups that we will be exploring. The default speed of our G.Skill Pi Black modules is DDR3 1600 so that will be the baseline. DDR2 1333 and DDR3 1860 are modifiers that we have applied to show the various under and overclocking that could alter the results.
DFI LP JR X58 T3H6
G.Skill DDR3 1600 RAM F3-12800CL8T 6GBPI-B
Seagate 500GB Sata HDD
Windows 7 Beta Build 7000
DDR2 Reference System
Intel QX9650 EE 2.93GHZ
DFI LP JR P45 T2RS
Crucial Ballistix DDR2 800 Ram
Seagate 250GB Sata HDD
Windows XP MCE 2005 Service pack 3
For the purposes of this article we will be looking at the effects of Dual Channel Memory vs Triple Channel memory. Below are the various memory setups that we will be exploring. The default speed of our G.Skill Pi Black modules is DDR3 1600 so that will be the baseline. DDR2 1333 and DDR3 1860 are modifiers that we have applied to show the various under and overclocking that could alter the results.
G.Skill Triple Channel PC3-12800
G.Skill Dual Channel PC3-12800
G.Skill Dual Channel PC3-10666
G.Skill Dual Channel PC3-15000
DDR2 Reference System PC2-6400
