Mushkin HP3 10666 DDR3 Memory Review

Testing:

CacheMem: This benchmark is another tool we use to gauge memory read-write performance.

Higher is Better

Far Cry: For this game test, we will use the following settings and run the Hardware OC 1.8 benchmark utility. The measure for this benchmark will be in FPS.

• Maximum quality option, Direct3D renderer
• Level: Volcano, demo: Volcano.tmd
• Pixel shader: model 2.0b
• Anti-alising: 4×
• Anisotropic filtering: 8×
• HDR: disabled
• Geometry Instancing: disabled
• Normal-maps compression: disabled

Higher is Better

At DDR 800 speeds, the HP3 falls behind the other two sets of memory in the Cachemem part of the testing. However, it does outperform the other modules by a large margin once at rated speed and timings. The gaming benchmark showed no appreciable gain or loss of frames per second at DDR 800 speeds or above.