As you can see, pushing the RAM a bit gets a nice boost in results; up 6.74% for the integer test and 7.57% for the float test. Those timing changes were the limit, by the way; going any further locked up the BIOS completely and required a reset.

Then I went back to the BIOS and adjusted the clock multiplier to 8x and frequency to 275 MHz, giving me the same processor speed (2200 MHz) but boosting the clock frequency between the memory and the processor. Doing so should test the overclocking abilities of the RAM without requiring any additional performance from the processor. Here are the benchmark results:

RAM Bandwidth Integer Buffered iSSE2: 8,605 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Float Buffered iSSE2: 8,578 MB/s

Again, even better results with a larger percentage change in the two categories: 8.05% in the integer test and 7.79% in the float test. I then pushed the frequency even further; although doing so actually led to decreased results in benchmark tests, it’s clear the RAM can go far beyond the stock settings for additional performance.