Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system and individual components. The numbers taken though are again, purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance. Higher numbers represent better performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2004 Benchmark Results
Memory	Integer SSE2:	Float SSE2:
AMD Athlon64 System Results
2x 512MB Corsair TwinX1024-4000(200/400)	3028	3024
2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed (200/400)	3015	3033
2x 512MB OCZ PC4000EL Gold (200/400)	3032	3032
2x 512MB OCZ PC4000EL Gold (206/412)	3123	3124
Intel Pentium4 System Results
2x 512MB Corsair TwinX1024-4000(200/400)	4858	4859
2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed (200/400)	4836	4833
2x 512MB OCZ PC4000EL Gold (200/400)	4759	4717
2x 512MB OCZ PC4000EL Gold (268/536)	6253	6294

It should be no surprise that all memory performed about the same in the Athlon64 platform, but in the Intel test system we get a fairly healthy performance boost from the OCZ PC4000EL when overclocked.

PCMark2002	Source: FutureMark

PCMark can be used on desktop PC's, Laptops and even Workstations and tests everyday computing from home to office usage. PCMark specifically stresses the CPU, memory subsystem, graphics subsystem, hard drives, WindowsXP GUI (if WinXP is used), video performance and even laptop batteries.

PCMark2002 Benchmark Results
Memory	PCMarks	Ranking
AMD Athlon64 System Results
2x 512MB Corsair TwinX1024-4000(200/400)	8846
2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed (200/400)	9043
2x 512MB OCZ PC4000EL Gold (200/400)	9016
2x 512MB OCZ PC4000EL Gold (206/412)	9254
Intel Pentium4 System Results
2x 512MB Corsair TwinX1024-4000(200/400)	9024
2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed (200/400)	9099
2x 512MB OCZ PC4000EL Gold (200/400)	9012
2x 512MB OCZ PC4000EL Gold (268/536)	11135

It's no surprise that at stock speeds all the memory perform approximately the same in PCMark2002. Overclocking gives a very slight boost for the Athlon64 based system, and on Intel, we see a very healthy performance boost.

PCMark04

Source: FutureMark

PCMark04 is the latest version of the popular PCMark series. PCMark04 is an application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including very large applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark04 to be a smaller installation as well as to report very accurate results. As far as possible, PCMark04 uses public domain applications whose source code can be freely examined by any user.

PCMark04 Benchmark Results
Memory	PCMarks	Ranking
AMD Athlon64 System Results
2x 512MB Corsair TwinX1024-4000(200/400)	3674
2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed (200/400)	3688
2x 512MB OCZ PC4000EL Gold (200/400)	3694
2x 512MB OCZ PC4000EL Gold (206/412)	3758
Intel Pentium4 System Results
2x 512MB Corsair TwinX1024-4000(200/400)	4287
2x 512MB OCZ PC3200 Plat LTD Ed (200/400)	4338
2x 512MB OCZ PC4000EL Gold (200/400)	4317
2x 512MB OCZ PC4000EL Gold (268/536)	5075

With the memory controller built into the Athlon64 bandwidth does not change very much. We get the opposite results on the Intel side of things, overclocking nets us a huge boost. Let's see what happens in other applications.