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Greetings CFD-online
I built humble workstation based on your recommendations: Asus x99 Strix i7-6850k 4x8 Corsair Vengeance 2133 MHz @2800 mhz in quad channel Theoretically I would have 89,6 GB/s of memory bandwidth but benchmarking my system on SiSoftware Sandra gives me 45.49 GB/s of memory bandwidth. With ram OCed at 2666 mhz Sandra gives 46,15 GB/s ![]() ![]() CPU frequency is stock 3,6 GHz. I think I have everything correcly connected. Aida64 tells me my system is quad channel. Thanks for your help
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I don't have any numbers at hand to compare for this benchmark.
With 4x8GB single-rank DDR4-2800 you should be in the ballpark of 60000MB/s using AIDA64 memory benchmark. No synthetic memory benchmark will come close to theoretical results. The best you can get is usually 10-20% lower. And for sheer memory bandwidth, single-rank leaves another ~10% on the table compared to dual rank at the same frequency. You checked the manual which DIMM slots to populate with 4 DIMMs? There is often a recommendation to use either slots 1 or 2 of each memory channel. I think I would use A1, B1, C1, D1. |
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Hello there flotus1, thanks for your answers
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Following this thread Duke711 gets 86.34 Gb/s with 6850k, I don't know what I'm doing wrong ![]() Epyc 7551 vs 6850K; Ansys Mechanical Bench |
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Different memory benchmarks produce different results. You really can not compare them.
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Comparing with same memory benchmarks, users get ~70 Gb/s , ¿could it be that my ram (Corsair 2133 MHz ) is not fast enough as Corsair Vengeance® LPX 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz C15 ?
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Didn't you get your results with a different benchmark? You only mentioned Sisoft. That's why I recommended Aida64, there are just more results to compare to.
Also: use CPU-Z tab "memory" to check how your memory is actually running. Maybe the overclock did not even apply. |
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I was gettings nearly the same results on Aida64. I managed to increase the memory bandwidth doing overclocking tweaks, now I reach 52 Gb/s which is comparable to other users results. Still lower than Corsair Vengeance® LPX 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4 DRAM 3200MHz C15.
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The values seem to be a bit on the low side. But you have to be aware of one thing: when looking at results in the kind of forum you linked, you are comparing against very enthusiastic people with lots of experience. So don't expect to get close to their results while still learning how to overclock.
A few things you can do to (potentially) improve your benchmark results and real-world performance:
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From your picture I can see that command rate is still 2, uncore frequency is unchanged and timings are still the same. So I am not sure what you checked besides increasing core clock speed. Diagnosing issues like this from far away without full information is next to impossible. I honestly don't know what else I could do here.
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hmm not sure if 4x8 is correct it should be 2x16, I read somewhere that a 4 sticks will run slower but the x99 should be able to handle it without a problem, I also notice it runs on 2133 MHz this must also the cause. |
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