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. Note that lower scores are better, and times are in seconds.

Pentium 4 @ 12x200, 2-3-3-5 Timings

Pentium 4 @ 12x250, 2.5-4-3-6 Timings

At 200FSB, the Gold trails the TWINX by almost 2 seconds. Things are a little better at 250FSB, as the TWINX only has a lead of just over one second.

TMPGEnc MPEG Encoding

Video editing is a taxing chore, and we'll be testing the OCZ Gold using TMPGEnc 2.512 to encode a 7.78MB, 1:30 movie trailer to a 23FPS MPG file. Note that lower scores are better.

Pentium 4 @ 12x250, 2.5-4-3-6 Timings

As we've seen with PiFast, the Gold PC4000 performs more on par with the TWINX at 250FSB. At 200FSB, the TWINX holds a huge two second lead (huge when you think of the differences with a larger MPEG file), but at the faster bus speed, both of them are on equal ground.

Unreal Tournament 2003

UT2K3 s a real system killer, and can bring many systems to its knees. We used the , which are excellent tools in testing various resolutions and detail levels. We selected the CPU test, which uses the dm-inferno map.

Pentium 4 @ 12x200, 2-3-3-5 Timings

Pentium 4 @ 12x250, 2.5-4-3-6 Timings

Things didn't go well for OCZ this time around, as they fall behind at both bus speeds. The gap is really large at 200FSB, and although it catches up in a big way at 250FSB, it's still about 3fps behind.

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