ADATA XPG V2 3100MHz 8GB Memory Kit Review

1. Introduction2. ADATA XPG V2 3100MHz Memory3. Configuring the BIOS4. System Configuration5. SiSoft Sandra6. MaxxMem27. Cinebench R11.5 64 bit8. Super Pi9. Performance Vs Avexir Core Extreme 3000MHz10. Overclocking11. Closing Thoughts12. View All Pages

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

Sandra is a (girl’s) name of Greek origin that means “defender”, “helper of mankind”. We think that’s quite fitting.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what’s really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Native ports for all major operating systems are available:

• Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x86)
• Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x64)
• Windows 2003/R2, 2008/R2* (IA64)
• Windows Mobile 5.x (ARM CE 5.01)
• Windows Mobile 6.x (ARM CE 5.02)

All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:

• SMP – Multi-Processor
• MC – Multi-Core
• SMT/HT – Hyper-Threading
• MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, FMA – Multi-Media instructions
• GPGPU, DirectX, OpenGL – Graphics
• NUMA – Non-Uniform Memory Access
• AMD64/EM64T/x64 – 64-bit extensions to x86
• IA64 – Intel* Itanium 64-bit

Due to its loose primary and secondary timings, ADATA's 3100MHz XPG V2 kit makes a slow start in Sandra's memory bandwidth test. We were also surprised to see ADATA's identical latency 2800MHz outperform the 3100MHz variant; the CPU speed deficit of 25MHz may be to account for the 3100MHz set's bottom-place finish.

The cache bandwidth result takes ADATA's 3100MHz set off the bottom of the chart and places its performance very close to that of Avexir's 3GHz kit. Bear in mind that Avexir's setup has a circa-100MHz CPU speed advantage over the other contenders – a point which may have a small effect on the results.

The high speed memory kits that we have tested continue to impress us with their latency performance, as pointed out by Sandra's test. The 3100MHz 12-14-14-36-2T XPG V2 kit from ADATA tops the table when it comes to cache and memory latency. 

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