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OCZ EL DDR PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum: With the new boards and CPUs constantly coming out on the market, we are starting to need ram which can handle a lot of pressures and overclocking needs of enthusiasts. |
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June 25, 2003 |
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Test Setup
Abit NF7-S nForce2: Athlon XP 2500+ (11x166: 1830MHz), 2 x 256MB OCZ EL DDR PC3200 Dual Channel Platinum, MSI FX 5200, 40GB Maxtor, Windows XP SP1
Test software will be:
SiSoft Sandra 2003
PC Mark 2002 Memory
PiFast
Quake 3
UT2003
We'll be presenting benchmarks at both the ram's stock speed (400MHz), as well as at the overclocked speeds, with the timings as shown earlier this page. Tests were done with the FSB and memory speed syncronous @ 166 (333DDR, 2-3-3-5), and asyncronous for 200MHz (400DDR) and up. At all FSB settings, timings are 2-3-3-5.
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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