At its highest setting, Ultra quality, texture
sizes pass the 500MB mark which means even tomorrow's videocards will have a
hard time running everything. The frame rates in the game itself are locked at
60 fps so anything above that point is wasted. Each test is run three times with
the third run being recorded.
| Doom 3 |
| LQ 640x480 |
FPS |
Ranking |
| 2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (200/800) |
184.1 |
   |
| 2x 1024MB Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800) |
183.8 |
|
| 2x 1024MB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4 (200/800) |
183.7 |
|
| 2x 1024MB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C3 (200/800) |
184.6 |
|
| 2x 1024MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 (200/400) |
183.5 |
   |
| 2x 1024MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 (260/1040) |
203.2 |
|
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framerates at stock speeds are nice and high, when
the system is overclocked the system is able to pass the 200 fps mark with 2GB
of Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 installed!
Quake 4 is the latest shooter from ID and is based
on the Doom 3 engine. Tweaked to for more eye candy, Quake 4 promises to be
tougher on videocards and systems than its predecessor was. Quake 4 also does
not have a 60 fps limiter like Doom 3, with the Ultra setting, graphic textures
can surpass the 500MB mark!
| Quake 4 |
| LQ 640x480 Custom Demo |
FPS |
Ranking |
| 2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (200/800) |
182.8 |
|
| 2x 1024MB Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800) |
183.2 |
|
| 2x 1024MB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4 (200/800) |
184.1 |
|
| 2x 1024MB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C3 (200/800) |
187.1 |
|
| 2x 1024MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 (200/400) |
183.6 |
|
| 2x 1024MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 (260/1040) |
198.6 |
|
Quake 4 framerates are nice and high, Crucial really does offer the whole package with
its 1GB Ballistix PC2-6400 modules!
In Battlefield 2, players will choose to fight for
one of three military superpowers: the United States, the Chinese, or the newly
formed Middle East Coalition. Armed with the latest modern weaponry, players can
take control of any of the games 30+ vehicles to engage in major conflicts with
over 64 players in some of the largest online battles on the PC. Test is run
five times, which will then be averaged with the highest and
lowest runs disregarded, settings are high quality at 1024x768.
| Battlefield 2 |
| HQ 1024x768: |
Points |
Ranking |
| 2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (200/800) |
362.148 |
|
| 2x 1024MB Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800) |
371.478 |
|
| 2x 1024MB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4 (200/800) |
375.636 |
|
| 2x 1024MB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C3 (200/800) |
378.415 |
|
| 2x 1024MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 (200/400) |
372.475 |
|
| 2x 1024MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 (260/1040) |
383.863 |
|
In the final test of the day, the Crucial Ballistix
PC2-6400 does very well and has no problem with Battlefield 2. Since all the
modules in the above test report are at least 1024MB in capacity, we aren't
seeing what happens when smaller sized (512MB) modules are run with Battlefield
2. This game really is a memory hog, and if you're running with less than
2GB of RAM it impacts performance significantly.
Next up we're going to compare the maximum
overclockability of the Crucial Ballistix PC2-6400 memory against some other
DDR-2 modules on the socket AM2 platform...
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