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Everest Home Memory Read

Everest Home is a freeware program that has really caught the attention of the enthusiast community. In particular, the memory read and latency benchmarks seem to be particularly popular. In the Memory Read benchmark, we see the Crucial Ballistix at 280Mhz fsb and 3:4 ram divider leading the class despite giving up a few MHz of speed. The Mushkin comes in second, followed closely by the Corsair PC5400Pro. The PDP despite coming in first in Sandra, comes in fourth place.

Everest Home Latency

Every Home Latency test is something the Athlon64 crowd has embraced with both arms. Certainly, it’s been established that tighter latency on the Athlon64 platform produces superior results, everything else being equal. That statement has been similar on the Pentium4 DDR platforms to an extent, yet the Pentium4 seems to be more forgiving of loose latency with less penalties incurred. The Latency portion of this test provides a good measure of how increasing ram frequency while using looser timings effect overall memory latency. As you know, increasing ram frequency while holding the same timings will decrease latency secondary to the added frequency itself which is a benefit. However, when trading timings for frequency, there comes a point on many platforms where the compromise in timings doesn’t justify the return in frequency. I like to use this benchmark as a quick and dirty gauge to determine if the timings for frequency trade is prudent. That said, what we see is that in correlation to the findings in Sandra and Everest, the Crucial Ballistix running at 280 4:4:4:12 is able to best all other modules, again despite a 5MHz deficit on fsb. Of note, the vanilla Ballistix or non-Tracer DIMMs are double sided (whereas all other modules tested are single sided), which adds the benefit of keeping twice the number of pages open at any given time. The Mushkin and PDP running at 285 fsb 3:4 divider come in a close second and third respectively.

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