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AMD Performance Edition 8GB/16GB Memory Review (built by Patriot)

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software.

Sandra is a (girl’s) name of Greek origin that means “defender”, “helper of mankind”. We think that’s quite fitting.

It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what’s really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

Native ports for all major operating systems are available:

  • Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x86)
  • Windows XP, 2003/R2, Vista, 7, 2008/R2 (x64)
  • Windows 2003/R2, 2008/R2* (IA64)
  • Windows Mobile 5.x (ARM CE 5.01)
  • Windows Mobile 6.x (ARM CE 5.02)

All major technologies are supported and taken advantage of:

  • SMP – Multi-Processor
  • MC – Multi-Core
  • SMT/HT – Hyper-Threading
  • MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, FMA – Multi-Media instructions
  • GPGPU, DirectX, OpenGL – Graphics
  • NUMA – Non-Uniform Memory Access
  • AMD64/EM64T/x64 – 64-bit extensions to x86
  • IA64 – Intel* Itanium 64-bit

The AMD Performance Edition memory is a big step up from the 1,333mhz rated memory. A score of 14 GB/s is very healthy for this AMD oriented platform.

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7 comments

  1. Well I had a moment of ‘wtf’ there until I saw it was patriot. I thought AMD had given up on processors to focus on memory.

    Nice looking heatspreaders, but they do face a tough market against G>SKILL who seem even cheaper than this.

  2. 1866mhz is quite good for this. £40 is also good. Very colourful looking memory. Nice job.

  3. WOw thats exactly what I need for my new FX build. going to order a kit this weekend. thanks !

  4. I was heading into this with disappointment as I dont want AMD to make memory, but this is a clever way to do it. Get PAtriot to qualify some special grade sticks.

    I like the heatspreaders.