Prelude to Benchmarks

The details of how the SyncMAX PC2-6400 Express memory test system was configured for benchmarking, including the specific hardware, software drivers, operating system and benchmark versions are indicated below. In the second column are the general specs for the reference platforms this pair of DDR-2 800MHz memory is to be compared against. Please take a moment to look over PCSTATS test system configurations before moving on to the individual benchmark results.

PCSTATS Test System Configurations

test system processor: amd Athlon64 FX-62 Clock Speed: 14 x 200 MHz = 2.8 GHz 10 x 266 MHz = 2.66 GHz Motherboards: Foxconn C51XEM2AA (NF 590 SLI) Videocard: MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E Memory: 2x 1024MB OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum XTC SLI Ready 2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 2x 1024MB Patriot PDC22G8000+XBLK 2x 1024MB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4 2x 512MB SyncMax PC2-5300 Express 2x 512MB SyncMax PC2-6400 Express Hard Drive: 74GB Western Digital Raptor WD740 CDROM: AOpen Combo 52x PowerSupply: PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 510 SLI Heatsink: Athlon64 FX-62 Reference Heatsink Software Setup: Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 nVIDIA Forceware NF4 9.34 nVIDIA Forceware 91.27 Benchmarks: Business Winstone 2004 Content Creation 2004 SiSoft Sandra 2005 PCMark05 3DMark05 Doom 3 Quake 4 Battlefield 2

Office Productivity	Source: Zdnet

Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications in Windows XP.

Office Productivity
Business Winstone 2004:	Points	Ranking
2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (200/800)	36.2
2x 1024MB Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800)	36.3
2x 1024MB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4 (200/800)	36.3
2x 1024MB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C3 (200/800)	36.8
2x 1024MB OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800)	36.5
2x 512MB SyncMax PC2-5300 Express (200/622)	33.7
2x 512MB SyncMax PC2-6400 Express (200/800)	36.5
2x 512MB SyncMax PC2-6400 Express (266/1064)	36.8
Content Creation 2004:	Points	Ranking
2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (200/800)	46.3
2x 1024MB Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800)	46.7
2x 1024MB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4 (200/800)	46.2
2x 1024MB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C3 (200/800)	47.3
2x 1024MB OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800)	47.2
2x 512MB SyncMax PC2-5300 Express (200/622)	44.6
2x 512MB SyncMax PC2-6400 Express (200/800)	47.2
2x 512MB SyncMax PC2-6400 Express (266/1064)	47.9

It's interesting to see how well the SyncMax PC2-6400 memory performs overclocked even though the processor is running about 160 MHz slower than the stock setting.

SiSoft Sandra 2005	Source:Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Benchmark Results
Memory	Integer SSE2:	Float SSE2:
2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (200/800)	7314	7262
2x 1024MB Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800)	7318	7236
2x 1024MB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C4 (200/800)	7422	7350
2x 1024MB Corsair CM2X1024-6400C3 (200/800)	7334	7251
2x 1024MB OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800)	7394	7312
2x 512MB SyncMax PC2-5300 Express (200/622)	6750	6690
2x 512MB SyncMax PC2-6400 Express (200/800)	7332	7246
2x 512MB SyncMax PC2-6400 Express (266/1064)	7216	7194

Memory controller speed is tied directly to CPU speed, which overclocked SyncMax PC2-6400 Express memory modules see slightly lower overall bandwidth figures.