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After dropping in the yellow Ballistix DDR2 RAM into a Gigabyte GA-8ANXP-D motherboard, we set about changing the memory multiplier to 2.66x, and tightened the timings...
86% Rating: 
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System Spec's and Benchmarks
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| PCStats Test System Specs: |
| processor: |
intel pentium 4 540 |
| clock
speed: |
16 x 200 mhz = 3.2 ghz
16 x 216 mhz = 3.46 ghz |
| motherboards: |
gigabyte ga-8anxp-d (i925x) |
| videocard: |
gigabyte gv-nx57128d |
| memory: |
2x 256mb samsung pc4200
ddr2*
2x 256mb crucial pc4200 ddr2*
2x 512mb crucial ballistix pc5300 ddr2 |
| hard drive:
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40gb western digital special ed |
| cdrom: |
nec 52x cd-rom |
| powersupply: |
vantec 400b ion |
| software
setup |
windowsxp build 2600
intel inf 6.00.1045
forceware
60.85 |
| workstation
benchmarks |
sisoft sandra
2004
pcmark2002
pcmark04
3dmark2001se
ut2003 | |
* - for comparisons sake we're going to show the results of the
Samsung PC4200 and Crucial PC4200 memory even though they are
not the same size.
Winstone 2002 |
Source: Zdnet |
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Business Winstone 2002 is a system-level,
application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when
running today's top-selling Windows-based 32-bit applications on Windows 98,
Windows 2000 (SP6 or later), Windows Me, or Windows XP. Business Winstone
doesn't mimic what these packages do; it runs real applications through a series
of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete those activities
to produce its performance scores.
I guess
size does make a difference in Business Winstone 2002, here at stock speeds
the Crucial Ballistix score higher than the other two sets of DIMM's.
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SiSoft Sandra 2004 |
Source: Sandra |
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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: |
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2x 256MB Samsung PC4200 (200/533) |
4974 |
4973 |
| 2x 256MB Crucial PC4200 (200/533) |
5002 |
5002 |
| 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC5300 (200/533) |
4985 |
4986 |
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2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC5300
(216/575) |
5405 |
5407 |
It should
be no surprise that all memory have approximately the same bandwidth at the same
speed. Overclocking boosts bandwidth about
10%.
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.
It seems
the Crucial Ballistix DDR2 scores slightly
higher than the two smaller counterparts. Breaking 12k in PCMark2002 with a small overclock is very good.
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