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In the following pages of this review, PCSTATS will be overclocking a 1GB set of Crucial Ballistix PC2-4200 DDR2 memory in bright orange aluminum heatspreaders.
85% Rating: 
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Benchmarks: Winstone 2004, Sandra 2005, PCMark04
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| PCStats Test System Specs: |
| processor: |
intel pentium 4 540 |
| clock
speed: |
16 x 200 mhz = 3.2 ghz
16 x 246 mhz = 3.93 ghz |
| motherboards: |
gigabyte ga-8anxp-d (i925x) |
| videocard: |
msi rx800xt-vtd256e |
| memory: |
2x 512mb crucial ballistix pc5300
2x 512mb mushkin
pc4300
2x 512mb pqi turbo pqi25400-1gdb
2x 512mb corsair
twin2x1024-4300c3 |
| hard drive:
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74gb western digital raptor |
| cdrom: |
gigabyte go-w0808a dvd burner |
| powersupply: |
pc power & cooling turbocool 510 sli |
| heatsink: |
intel stock hsf |
| software
setup |
windowsxp build 2600
intel inf 6.00.1045
catalyst
5.7 |
| workstation
benchmarks |
business winstone 2004
sisoft sandra
2005
pcmark04
3dmark2001se
3dmark05
x2: the
threat
ut2003
ut2004
doom
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Winstone 2004 |
Source: Zdnet |
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Business Winstone 2004 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 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.
| Business Winstone 2004: |
| Memory: |
Points |
Ranking |
| 2x 512MB PQI Turbo PQI25400-1GDB (200/533) |
22.7 |
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| 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-5400 (200/533) |
23.5 |
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| 2x 512MB Mushkin PC2-4200 (200/533) |
23.7 |
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| 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-4200 (200/533) |
23.6 |
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| 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-4200 (242/644) |
28.9 |
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Despite running with loose timings, the Crucial Ballistix PC2-4200 still does
quite well in Business Winstone 2004. Overclocking provides a very large
performance boost, but remember the CPU is also running faster.
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SiSoft Sandra 2005 |
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
2005 Benchmark Results |
| Memory |
Integer SSE2: |
Float SSE2: |
| 2x 512MB Mushkin PC2-4200 (200/533) |
5344 |
5362 |
| 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-5400
(200/533) |
5383 |
5375 |
| 2x 512MB PQI Turbo PQI25400-1GDB (200/533) |
5346 |
5353 |
| 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-4200 (200/533) |
4994 |
4977 |
| 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-4200 (242/644) |
5903 |
5849 |
The Crucial Ballistix PC2-4200 memory has lower
bandwidth than the other systems by ~400MB/s which is rather
surprising.
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 whole applications or using specifically created code. This allows
PCMark04 to maintain a smaller installation size while still giving accurate
results.
| PCMark04: |
| Overall |
Points |
Ranking |
| 2x 512MB PQI Turbo PQI25400-1GDB (200/533) |
5321 |
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| 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-5400 (200/533) |
5372 |
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| 2x 512MB Mushkin PC2-4200 (200/533) |
5368 |
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| 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-4200 (200/533) |
5209 |
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| 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-4200 (242/644) |
6103 |
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| Memory |
Points |
Ranking |
| 2x 512MB PQI Turbo PQI25400-1GDB (200/533) |
5676 |
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| 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-5400 (200/533) |
5702 |
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| 2x 512MB Mushkin PC2-4200 (200/533) |
5694 |
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| 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-4200 (200/533) |
5326 |
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| 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-4200 (242/644) |
6277 |
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PCMark04 sees similar results to Sandra, at stock speeds the overall and memory
scores are slightly lower than expected.
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