GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB DDR3 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit Review

1. Introduction2. GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB DDR3 1866MHz3. GeIL EVO Leggera 8GB DDR3 1866MHz (Super High Res Gallery)4. Configuring The Bios5. System Configuration6. SiSoft Sandra7. PCMark 78. MaxxMem 29. SuperPi10. Studio Max 201111. Overclocking past 1,866mhz12. Closing Thoughts13. View All Pages

To overclock, we reduced the multiplier from 48 to 44 – this gives us some room to work inside our limitations of 4.8ghz.

We increased the BLCK/PEG frequency to 109, and set the memory to 2,180mhz in the ASUS bios. We experienced some instability so loosened the timings to 10-11-10-36 which doesn't have an overly negative effect on the results. We found this was stable. Our final clock speed was 4796mhz – very close to the 4,800mhz figure used earlier in the review.

We could push to 2,400mhz but the timings needed loosened further to 11-12-11, this lowered the scores and gave worse benchmark results.

System validation at these speeds is available over here.

The overclock helped improve the time by 2 seconds, to 5 minutes and 11 seconds.

The overclock helps generate another 3GB/s of memory bandwidth in SiSoft Sandra. A score of 27GB/s+ for a dual channel configuration is extremely impressive.

The increased memory speed helps to improve copy, read and write results – by a noticeable margin too. The final scores are very impressive, aided by the still tight timings.

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