Exploring the impact of memory speed on Sandy Bridge performance


What do those fancy DIMMs get you, anyway?
by Geoff Gasior — 10:09 AM on February 9, 2011

K-Series Sandy Bridge CPUs have unlocked memory multipliers that make it easy to take advantage of faster memory modules. We explore performance with a range of memory configurations to see whether Intel's latest CPU architecture makes good use of exotic DIMMs.

   
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