Test Setup
Abit NF7-S nForce2: Athlon XP 2500+ (9.5x200: 1900MHz), 2 x 256MB Crucial DDR PC3200, FIC Radeon 9600 Pro, 40GB Maxtor, Windows XP SP1
Test software will be:
SiSoft Sandra 2003
PC Mark 2002 Memory
PiFast
UT2003
We'll be presenting benchmarks at the ram's stock speed (400MHz), as well as at the over clocked speeds, with the timings as shown earlier on the page. Tests were done with the FSB and memory speed, asynchronous for 200MHz (400DDR) and up. At all FSB settings, timings are 3-4-4-10.
SiSoftware Sandra 2003
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.
Considering that the Crucial PC3200 is considered to be budget ram, we were quite surprised to see it overtake the Platinum, which is considerably more expensive.
PC Mark 2002 - Memory
This synthetic benchmark is one that we here at VL don't put a lot of emphasis on, but we're aware that many of our readers do use it.
The Platinum edges out the Crucial this time around.
PiFast
A good indicator of CPU/Motherboard performance is PiFast version 4.2, by Xavier Gourdon. We used a computation of 10000000 digits of Pi, Chudnovsky method, 1024 K FFT, and no disk memory. Lower numbers are better.
Another good showing by Crucial's PC3200, holding a lead just under one second.
