TESTING METHODOLOGY

   Unfortunately since my Toshiba Qosmio X300 notebook supports memory kits running up to 1333MHz it wasn't possible for me to test the KHX1600C9S3K2/8GX (8GB/1600MHz/CL9) at its default speed of 1600MHz. However as you can see from the above screenshots it was also recognized as a 1333MHz kit with a CAS latency of 7 instead of the default 9 which should make up for the "lost" MHz (in the charts however we have it listed as 1600MHz CL9). Now to thoroughly test all kits we used a total of 6 benchmarks (5 suites and 1 game) which should be more than just enough to point out which the best solution is. The benchmark suites we used are well-known and include the AIDA64 Engineer Edition v2.5, Sisoftware Sandra Pro v2012 SP2, WinRAR v4.3 x64, ScienceMark v2.0 x64 and finally BootRacer v3.8 while the game we used is Tom Clancy’s HAWX II (not too heavy so we can point out the differences between kits). Each test was performed a total of 4 times after which the average results were recorded into our charts. The operating system is Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 with every update installed up until August 6th.