More Core i7 trichannel "failure" from "thiefs"

[bingo13]

ok, so, after checking, here is the answer from the architect himself (Ronak).

Everest is not threaded for the memory test, I verified with a Skulltrail 4.0Ghz and a Nehalem Big time OC, and both of them use 25% of the CPU during the test.
Memory bandwidth is so great in Nehalem that you need more than a single threaded test to measure fully the memory bandwidth.

Please use sandra for the time being, Everest will catch up soon I think.

Francois Piednoel
Intel Corp.

SiSoftware (Sandra) is working on patch also, while their bandwidth numbers are showing about a 40% increase over Everest due to threading optimizations, their latency numbers are almost double what Everest is reporting right now (which I understand Everest is correct in this case) . The latency test in Sandra 2009 puts the X58 about even with the NForce 3.

It is a damned if you do, dammed if you don't situation right now when it comes to reporting memory subsystem results without using an actual application.