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. At 452MHz (DDR), the OCZ EL DDR PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum is doing a great job with the numbers. 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. Lower numbers are better.

The extra 60MHz shaves close to 11 seconds from the calculations. PiFast is fairly memory intensive, so the extra speed makes quite a difference in the performance.

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