i3 530 @ 3.4 only 25 Cels!!! The bad: DDR31600 5.9 in WEI :(

[ChaiBabbaChai]

I am impressed with the temps, but these Core i3 have issues. (dual on-chip die link is too slow)

I have timings set to 8-8-8-23, 1T, tRC 31 too. Doesn't help.

 

[Hey Zeus]

Overclock it Past 4Ghz and you won't care

 

[ChaiBabbaChai]

Haha it's already faster than anything I've ever touched, so it's all good. My AMD Athlon II Propus had a 7.3 on the RAM WEI score with 1333. Maybe Intel knows RAM speed doesn't make much difference (in the real world) past a certain point.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Maybe it's because of the latency. Didn't Anand find that the latency for the i3s with the off-die GPU/memory controller have worse latency than the C2Ds with FSB?

 

[Spikesoldier]

i dont think WEI is a very good indicator of performance. use a real benchmark like everest.

 

[ChaiBabbaChai]

Core i3 have issues. (dual on-chip die link is too slow)

Maybe it's because of the latency. Didn't Anand find that the latency for the i3s with the off-die GPU/memory controller have worse latency than the C2Ds with FSB?

That's what I said. You hit the nail on the head, just a little redundant. And for some reason CPUz keeps reporting CAS as 9, when I have it set to 7 in BIOS (and same when it was set to 8 in BIOS).

 

[ChaiBabbaChai]

i dont think WEI is a very good indicator of performance. use a real benchmark like everest.

That's very true, but I am not a benchmark kind of guy. I just run DPC Latency Checker and WEI, and that's about it.

I posted this more to warn people of the dual-die RAM latency on Clarkdale.

 

[JMapleton]

Is your RAM running at a full 1600mhz? Mine is underclocked to 1066mhz and it does me fine.

 

[evolucion8]

Core i3 latency in the memory controller is even worse than the previous generation of Intel CPU's that uses a northbridge, I think that the issue is in the memory controller itself and not in the ram. WEI is very sensitive to memory timings, enough to even lower your CPU score a bit.

 

[ChaiBabbaChai]

they're clocked to 1550 MHz (155x10) and the problem according to reviews I've read is with the 2 separate dies on the CPU. The cores are 32nm and the video/mem controller are on a 45nm die next to the cores and L caches.

 

[ChaiBabbaChai]

Well, while I was banned, I got it going stable(ish) at 4.0 GHz, 8.0 GHz QPI and 1600...