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.
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 with each overclock. Although the CAS latency had to be bumped up to 2.5, the best performance was at 226MHz (452FSB). Keep in mind that both SiSoft and PC Mark are not real world benchmarks, but they do give a scale in which to measure against.
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.
The extra 60MHz shaves about 5 seconds from the calculations. PiFast is fairly memory intensive, so the extra speed makes quite a difference in the performance.
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Corsair TWINX Dual Channel Memory Kit: With motherboard technologies such as the nForce 2 and Granite Bay, Corsair has released their TWINX memory kits to take advantage of the dual channel memory technology.
