SiSoftware Sandra 2003 Memory - Pentium 4 @ 12x200
Although a synthetic benchmark, it's a popular one, freely available if you wish to make comparison benchmarks. We will be testing the memory speeds only.
PC Mark 2002 - Pentium 4 @ 12x200
For the two synthetic benchmarks, the tweaked timings show a slight improvement over the standard SPD. If the ram can handle it, there's no reason to settle for stock timings I always say.
PiFast - Pentium 4 @ 12x200
A good indicator of CPU/Motherboard performance is version 4.2, by Xavier Gourdon. We used a computation of 10000000 digits of Pi, Chudnovsky method, 1024 K FFT, and no disk memory. Note that lower scores are better, and times are in seconds.
As expected, a small improvement with the tweaked timings.
TMPGEnc MPEG Encoding - Pentium 4 @ 12x200
Video editing is a taxing chore, and we'll be testing the TWINX using TMPGEnc 2.512 to encode a 7.78MB, 1:30 movie trailer to a 23FPS MPG file. Note that lower scores are better.
Tweaking the ram to 2-3-3-5 knocks another second off the encoding time. Though just one seconds may not seem like much, encoding a MPEG file that's 20 times larger will add another 19 seconds and so forth. Any time saved is always good to me.
Unreal Tournament 2003 - Pentium 4 @ 12x200
UT2K3 s a real system killer, and can bring many systems to its knees. We used the , which are excellent tools in testing various resolutions and detail levels. We selected the CPU test, which uses the dm-inferno map.
Splinter Cell - Pentium 4 @ 12x200
New to our test bench is UbiSoft's 3rd person action game, Splinter Cell. We used the Beyond3D demo, and ran the demo at 640x480 at the lowest detail levels.
Both games prefer fast ram, with Unreal Tournament 2003 showing the largest gains. We've now seen what the ram can do at the CPU's stock speed at a 1:1 ratio... let's checkout a 250FSB overclock, 1:1.
