Overclocking Results:

4-5-4-12 5-5-5-15 memory speed: 1044 MHz 1160 MHz If you're new to Overclocking and not sure what to do, check out these two excellent Guides for some pointers: Overclocking the CPU and Memory Overclocking the Videocard

To test the top speed of SuperTalent's T1000UX2G4 part, the memory was installed into the Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus motherboard (NF680i) with an Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 processor. Starting at DDR2-800 speeds with CAS latency settings at 4-5-4-12, the memory frequency was bumped up in 20 MHz increments.

Almost immediately, the SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 memory ran into stability problems... but as we quickly discovered this was because of a voltage setting we overlooked. At 860MHz we noticed that the memory was running with 1.8V, so that was increasing to 2.2V. Moving to the stock rated operating voltage (2.2v) solved the stability issues we had seen initially and allowed the T1000UX2G4 memory to continue overclocking.

After the SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 memory voltage was increased, the memory had no problems reaching 1000 MHz, or its default rated speed. To reach any higher the voltage had to be bumped up to 2.3V. In the end, the SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 hit a maximum speed at 1044 MHz when running on tight CAS Latency timings.

Loosening up the memory timings to 5-5-5-15 coaxed a little more from the SuperTalent's T1000UX2G4 memory. With these timings, PCSTATS was able to push it to 1044 MHz, and then just as quickly 1100MHz. With 2.3V and lax timings, the maximum speed we achieved with Supertalent's T1000UX2G4 modules was 1160 MHz. Fast.

Prelude to Benchmarks

The details of how the SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 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 PC2-8000 DDR-2 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: intel core 2 duo e6600 clock speed: 9 x 266 mhz = 2.4 ghz motherboards: asus p5n32-e plus (nf 680i) videocard: msi NX7800GTX-VT2D256E Memory: 2GB Kit Patriot PDC22G8000+XBLK 2GB Kit Corsair Twin2X1024-6400C4 2GB Kit OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum XTC SLI Ready 2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D 2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-8888C4DF 2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 Hard Drive: 74GB Western Digital Raptor WD740 CDROM: AOpen Combo 52x PowerSupply: PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 510 SLI Heatsink: Intel Reference 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

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
2GB Kit Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800)	30.2
2GB Kit Corsair Twin2X1024-6400C4 (200/800)	30.3
2GB Kit OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800)	30.1
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D (200/800)	30.1
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-8888C4DF (200/800)	30.5
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/800)	30.2
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/1160)	32.4
Content Creation 2004:	Points	Ranking
2GB Kit Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800)	41.5
2GB Kit Corsair Twin2X1024-6400C4 (200/800)	41.6
2GB Kit OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800)	41.8
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D (200/800)	41.8
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-8888C4DF (200/800)	42.1
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/800)	42.2
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/1160)	42.6

Performance of all the memory at stock speeds is the same, that much shouldn't be a surprise. Overclocking memory alone in your PC system gives it a slight boost in the Office Productivity tests although you'd probably be hard pressed to notice.

SiSoft Sandra 2007	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
Memory	Integer SSE2	Float SSE2
2GB Kit Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800)	5615	5573
2GB Kit Corsair Twin2X1024-6400C4 (200/800)	5648	5562
2GB Kit OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800)	5671	5584
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D (200/800)	5676	5581
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-8888C4DF (200/800)	5692	5684
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/800)	5765	5764
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/1160)	5842	5796
Memory Latency Random:	Points	Ranking
2GB Kit Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800)	78
2GB Kit Corsair Twin2X1024-6400C4 (200/800)	78
2GB Kit OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800)	78
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D (200/800)	78
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-8888C4DF (200/800)	79
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/800)	75
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/1160)	72
Memory Latency Linear:	Points	Ranking
2GB Kit Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800)	11
2GB Kit Corsair Twin2X1024-6400C4 (200/800)	11
2GB Kit OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800)	11
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D (200/800)	11
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-8888C4DF (200/800)	11
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/800)	11
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/1160)	10

Memory bandwidth and latency are surprisingly good for the SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 despite running at the same settings as the previous memory. When overclocked we see a small boost in overall bandwidth, as well as lower latencies.

Futuremark PCMark05 1.1.0	Source: FutureMark

PCMark05 is a premium tool for measuring both normal home use and simple 3D performance of the latest PC hardware. There are 11 system tests - each one is designed to represent a certain type of PC usage. By running these tests, PCMark05 stresses the components in a similar manner as they are stressed in normal home usage.

PCMark05:
Overall	Points	Ranking
2GB Kit Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800)	6912
2GB Kit Corsair Twin2X1024-6400C4 (200/800)	6907
2GB Kit OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800)	6922
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D (200/800)	6939
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-8888C4DF (200/800)	6968
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/800)	6952
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/1160)	7073
Memory	Points	Ranking
2GB Kit Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800)	5456
2GB Kit Corsair Twin2X1024-6400C4 (200/800)	5440
2GB Kit OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800)	5462
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D (200/800)	5449
2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-8888C4DF (200/800)	5462
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/800)	5487
2GB Kit SuperTalent T1000UX2G4 (200/1160)	5572

PCMark05 numbers are flat for the SuperTalent T1000UX2G4, but that's expected. Please keep in mind that the rest of the system is kept at stock speeds when the memory has been overclocked.