Test Setup

Abit NF7-S nForce2: Athlon XP 2500+ (10x200: 2000MHz), 2 x 512MB Kingston HyperX 512MB DDR PC3500, ATI Radeon 9500 Pro, 80GB Maxtor 7200RPM, Windows XP SP1, ATI Catalyst 3.4.

Test software will be:

SiSoft Sandra 2003
PC Mark 2002 Memory
PiFast
Quake 3
UT2003

We'll be presenting benchmarks at the ram's stock speed (434MHz), in both Single Channel and Dual Channel mode. We will also be presenting some benchmarks of the HyperX overclocked @ 225MHz in Dual Channel mode. The HyperX will be run asyncronous.

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.

Some good scores across the board. What should be obvious here is if you have a Dual Channel motherboard, make sure you run your ram in that mode.

PC Mark 2002 - Memory

This is one synthetic benchmark that we here at VL don't exactly put a lot of emphasis on, but we're aware that many of our readers do use it.

As we should expect, memory performance increases in Dual Channel mode, and while overclocked.

PiFast

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. Lower numbers are better.

Dual Channel mode shaves about 3 seconds off the calculation time, and overclocking an additional 2 seconds.

NEXT