performance. As usual, track
any changes that happen in the
secondary and tertiary timings
and try to keep them as they
were when the memory was
running with the 3,200MHz
X.M.P loaded.
For those who like to tinker
even more, you may extract
ever increasing performance
by fine tuning the advanced
DRAM timings and matching
them to the capabilities of your
IMC and the motherboard. It is
an extremely time consuming
exercise, but certainly one
that will yield tangible gains
in particular workloads.
Especially when encoding
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or transcoding large video
files or rendering. The small
gains are compounded the
larger the work load. As
such, you could shave tens of
minutes eventually. If not for
those purposes, it’s always
fun watch the performance
increase in synthetic
benchmarks as you tune the
memory timings (we do need
a new memory performance
benchmark btw, as
MaxxMem is no longer as
reliable as it used to be).
If for some reason you
factor in aesthetics for your
memory purchase, then you
may or may not take well
to the rather simple design
on this kit. It is obviously
not a Dominator kit and as
such features a far more
simplistic heatsink assembly.
Still, it does the job and with
the Vengeance Airflow units,
makes for an attractive kit. It
isn’t perhaps
so much what this cooling
solution will do for your
memory, but rather how it
will help keep the PWM area
of your motherboard cooler
than it otherwise would be.
Not a big deal if you’re not
pushing hard as modern
motherboards have more than
adequate cooling. However,