Avexir MPower Series DDR3 2400MHz 8GB Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
With XMP set and the system booted, our first CPU screen shot confirms that XMP is working correctly with timings and command rate set accordingly.
After CPU-Z had confirmed our settings had been applied, we fired up AIDA64 to check the stock performance of the memory on our Z77 motherboard.
From the go, the MPower modules offer up a good level of bandwidth with read speeds of 21633MB/s write of 11816MB/s and copy of 23303MB/s at a nice low latency of 34.3ns.
Given the results of the standard core series kit when we looked at it last October, we are hoping that this will be as equally surprising and have a lot to offer.
Back in BIOS, the first check is to see if the kit will move to the next divider, but as we’ve found with many kits at 2400MHz stock, this isn’t always easy and no surprises this kit didn’t want to know either. Moving back over to the BCLK after a few increases, we ended up settling at a clock of 101.5MHz and a memory frequency of 2436MHz.
Back in AIDA 64 we find that the bandwidth gain has gone up higher than what we found with the core series before and at a lower clock speed as well resulting in 24206MB/s read, 23885MB/s write and 26052MB/s copy at 31.2ns.
Based on the current gains we can already see that this kit is just as good as the other Core kit we’ve seen but now its time to let the timings roam free and see what the kit can do unrestricted on timings.
Back in the BIOS we find that the kit happily jumps up to the 2666MHz divider as expected with the timings slackened off and after a slight push further upto a BLCK of 101MHz we are left with an overall speed of 2693MHz and timings still relatively low at 11-13-13-35.
Given the higher clocks it is a shame to see that the bandwidth has not really gone up, more or less staying the same if not slightly slower, but we do get a lowered latency of 30.4ns which does help a little more.
It is a shame to see that the bandwidth didn’t really jump when the timings were set free, but this is part down to the slower timings. We know this kit is becoming very popular with overclockers and modders alike so perhaps we can expect to see this kit start to crop up in the future in some world record attempts.
