Software & Performance Testing

 

Testing Hardware:

• ASRock Z590 Taichi
• Intel Core i9-11900K
• Kingston KC2000 1TB
• 32GB (2x16GB) Lexar Hades RGB 3600MHz

 

Testing Software:

• Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 20H2
• Thaiphoon Burner
• CPU-Z
• AIDA64 Extreme Edition
• Passmark Performance Test 10
• SiSoft Sandra

 

Lexar RGB Sync

Lexar’s RGB Sync program is simple but efficiently covers all the needed bases. You get 15 preset lighting effects to choose from, and you can adjust raw values for each of the individual LEDs. Four user-selectable profile saves are available at the top, as well as a single button to disable lighting completely.

 

CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system:

• Processor name and number, codename, process, package, cache levels.
• Mainboard and chipset.
• Memory type, size, timings, and module specifications (SPD).
• Real-time measurement of each core’s internal frequency, memory frequency.

CPUz shows us we have a single XMP profile available at 3600MHz effective at 18-22-22-42 at 1.35V. It’s also worth noting that it supports non-overclocked JEDEC speeds up to 3200MHz.

 

Thaiphoon Burner

Thaiphoon Burner is the number one solution on the software market to work with SPD firmware of DRAM modules of PC. Thaiphoon Burner provides powerful features for reading, modifying, updating, and reprogramming SPD firmware of SPD EEPROM devices. The program fully supports all popular JEDEC standards for Serial Presence Detects and third-party enhancements, such as NVIDIA EPP and Intel XMP. Comparing to other software Thaiphoon Burner creates the most completed reports for any of the following SDRAM types of DIMM modules: PC SDRAM, DDR SDRAM, DDR2 SDRAM, DDR3 SDRAM, DDR2 FB-DIMM, DDR4 SDRAM, LPDDR3, and LPDDR4. This is achieved due to the universal built-in SPD decoding engine.

Thaiphoon shows us Lexar is utilizing eight of its own in-house DRAM modules configured in a single rank.

Here is the full readout if you want to look deep into the specs.

 

AIDA64 Engineer Edition

“AIDA64 Engineer has a hardware detection engine unrivaled in its class. It provides detailed information about installed software and offers diagnostic functions and support for overclocking. As it is monitoring sensors in real-time, it can gather accurate voltage, temperature, and fan speed readings, while its diagnostic functions help detect and prevent hardware issues. It also offers a couple of benchmarks for measuring the performance of individual hardware components or the whole system. It is compatible with all 32-bit and 64-bit Windows editions, including Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016.”

Bandwidth measured by AIDA64 falls in about where we expect it to compared to similar kits.

Latency on the other hand does a bit better than expected with our testbed registering 60.9 nanoseconds, a fair bit faster than we would expect from a kit like this.

 

Passmark Performance Test – Memory Mark – Threaded

“Fast, easy to use, PC speed testing, and benchmarking. PassMark Performance Test 10 allows you to objectively benchmark a PC using a variety of different speed tests and compare the results to other computers.”

Passmark gives the Hades RGB a threaded memory test score of 51,244 points, the best score we’ve seen from a 3600Mhz kit by a small margin.

 

SiSoft Sandra

“SiSoftware Sandra provides a robust package of diagnostic tools for testing your system and teasing out its problems–or potential headaches.”

SiSoft shows an aggregate memory bandwidth of 42.86 GB/s which is really good for a 3600MHz memory kit.