So after looking a ton for other people that have fiddled with these settings and finding nothing.... I have took it upon myself to test.
For all my testing I will be using MaxxMem to find the latencies and copy/read/write speeds.
I will be using AMD Overdrive to ONLY show the timings and drive strengths. All my changes are being made in the bios.
The timing on the ram is easy to see as well. That is as low as I can go with my ram.
My ram was sold to me as G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 1600 CL9. I have 4 of these sticks occupying all slots.
Ok so for my first test I went for an all or nothing approach:
This is the original (AUTO) drive strengths:
This is with all the drive settings maxed out:
This is with all the drive settings set to lowest:
Things to note that the benchmarks don't show:
With the higher strengths the maxxmem results vary a decent amount each run. Never quite getting the same score (might be due to not long enough waiting after boot).
With the lower strengths the maxxmem results are very stable, giving almost exactly the same results each time.
BUT with the lower strengths windows and specifically ASUS Probe act odd and malfunction occasionally giving off readings.
So far my conclusion is that higher drive strength = better stability.....
Let me know what you think, I will be testing some of the other oddball settings shortly.
For all my testing I will be using MaxxMem to find the latencies and copy/read/write speeds.
I will be using AMD Overdrive to ONLY show the timings and drive strengths. All my changes are being made in the bios.
The timing on the ram is easy to see as well. That is as low as I can go with my ram.
My ram was sold to me as G.Skill Ripjaw DDR3 1600 CL9. I have 4 of these sticks occupying all slots.
Ok so for my first test I went for an all or nothing approach:
This is the original (AUTO) drive strengths:
This is with all the drive settings maxed out:
This is with all the drive settings set to lowest:
Things to note that the benchmarks don't show:
With the higher strengths the maxxmem results vary a decent amount each run. Never quite getting the same score (might be due to not long enough waiting after boot).
With the lower strengths the maxxmem results are very stable, giving almost exactly the same results each time.
BUT with the lower strengths windows and specifically ASUS Probe act odd and malfunction occasionally giving off readings.
So far my conclusion is that higher drive strength = better stability.....
Let me know what you think, I will be testing some of the other oddball settings shortly.
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| CPU | Motherboard | Graphics | RAM |
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| Intel i7-3770K | Asus p8z77-deluxe | Asus Geforce GTX 590 | samsung 4GB DDR3 |
| Hard Drive | Cooling | OS | Monitor |
| Combined: 6.13 TB of space | Silver Arrow SB-E Extreme | Windows 8 Pro | Asus VG278H |
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| Overclock.net Ducky Keyboard | Corsair AX1200 | Corsair Obsidian 800D | Logitech Performance MX |
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