Crucial Ballistix DDR3-1600 + Asus P5K3 Deluxe (anandtech style)

[eva2000]

So far, with the short amount of time I have had to play with DDR3, I have found that it is hard to find a set of comparable cpu multiplier/fsb/memory speed configurations to match and compare with DDR2 benchmarks. It's even harder to find comparable DDR3 results at similar cpu/multiplier/fsb/memory speeds and timings as everyone is running at different DDR3 platform settings.

So decided to take a look at Anandtech.com's recent DDR3 testing and do some DDR3 benchmarks of my own but at similar settings as Anandtech.com's DDR3 review so as to have something to compare against.

Anandtech.com's Super Pi 2M, Sandra Buffered/Unbuffered benchmarks is what I will be concentrating on. But I'll throw in 32M Super Pi and Everest Ultimate bandwidth tests as well.

http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=3121&p=4
http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=3121&p=5

• 9x333FSB 5:6 400Mhz 5-3-3-5 2T at 1.7v
• 9x333FSB 5:8 533Mhz 5-4-3-9 2T at 1.7v
• 9x333FSB 1:2 666Mhz 6-5-5-12 2T at 1.8v
• 6x500FSB 5:8 800Mhz 7-6-5-15 2T at 1.8v

Unfortunately, I can't hit DDR3-2000Mhz with either Crucial Ballistix PC3-12800 or OCZ PC3-14400 Platinum memory, it could be a memory limit or more likely a Asus P5K3 Deluxe P35 chipset limit for this particular motherboard ? On Asus Blitz Extreme has gone as high as DDR3-1900 8-7-6-20 1T at 2.08v with 1.73v vMCH. But can't hit those clocks on Asus P5K3 Deluxe.

Tabulated results