Testing (continued):

Windows 7 Experience:

Windows 7 has a built-in benchmark to analyze a few key hardware components. You can analyze your graphics card, hard drive, system memory, and processor; but we will focus on just the system memory. Higher is better for these results, and the best possible score is 7.9. What we see is that Windows 7 ranks the two kits at 1/10 of a point off of the maximum when they run at their stock speeds. Overclock a little and the Patriot Memory kit maxes out the benchmark.



Heaven v1.0 DirectX 11 Benchmark:

Unigene's Heaven v1.0 benchmark is an entertaining way to analyze the DirectX 11 performance of a system running the Windows 7 operating system. This test is being included in here just to see if the DirectX 11 gaming performance is influenced by system memory specifications.

The first set of results from this test detail the "FPS", or the frames per second that the test averaged. You do see an increase when going from the Crucial kit to the Patriot Memory kit, but 0.1 FPS is nothing to be concerned about.



The second chart shows the "Scores" portion of the results from Heaven v1.0, and right away it is clear that memory operating anywhere in this range of speeds and timings won't impact performance very much at all.