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| Overclocking Results: |
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Surprised at
the overclocking results from the first set of PNY D22GX93XLP-5 memory, we
requested another set to see if the D22GX93XLP-5 would perform the same. Even
though the PNY memory is only rated to run with 5-5-5-15 timings, most memory on
the market can run with tighter settings and that is also important to
performance.
The first
thing I did after the system booted up was set the memory speed to DDR2-800 and
timings to 4-4-4-12. Rebooting the machine I was greeted with... SUCCESS the
computer could boot and run benchmarks with the tight timings without any issues
and this is with just 1.8V coursing through the memory. Now is when the
interesting stuff starts to happen...
Starting at
800 MHz and increasing the memory in 20 MHz increments let's see how high the
PNY D22GX93XLP-5 memory can run with tight timings. Without much difficulty the
memory cracked 900 MHz but to go past 940 MHz the voltage had to be increased to
2.0V. To get to the 1 GHz mark the memory needed another voltage bump this time
up to 2.2V.
2.2V seems to
be what the PNY memory needed because the clock speed increased another 100 MHz
without any difficulty. The memory ended up hitting a maximum speed of 1160 MHz
and that's definitely very respectable with 4-4-4-12 timings! Let's check out
what these bad boys can do when the timings are loosened up.
The initial set of PNY D22GX93XLP-5 XLR8 memory
would not run at all with tight timings, it ended up that we had one DIMM that
just couldn't handle the settings. The second set though obviously had no
difficulties and neither did the second DIMM from the first set of
memory.
Relaxing the
memory timings to 5-5-5-15 and starting from 1160 MHz the memory frequency was
again increased in 20 MHz jumps. The PNY D22GX93XLP-5 memory cracked 1200 MHz
without much difficulty. The PNY memory was able to crack 1300 MHz which is a
pretty good achievement considering only the Corsair DOMINATOR
Twin2X2048-8888C4DF memory could reach that mark. It ended up maxing out at an
awesome 1320 MHz, anything higher and the system would not POST. It's in
line with what we got with the previous set of PNY D22GX93XLP-5 too, that memory
hit a maximum speed of 1280 MHz with 5-5-5-15 timings.
Prelude to Benchmarks
The details of how the PNY D22GX93XLP-5 XLR8 Performance Edition 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 PC2-9384 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.
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| PCSTATS Test System Configurations |
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|
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 PNY
D22GX93XLP-5 XLR8 (200/800) |
30.3 |
   |
| 2GB PNY
D22GX93XLP-5 XLR8 (200/1280) |
32.1 |
|
| 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 PNY
D22GX93XLP-5 XLR8 (200/800) |
42.6 |
|
| 2GB PNY
D22GX93XLP-5 XLR8 (200/1280) |
43.2 |
|
It's interesting that this PNY memory
gives us a bigger performance boost in Business Winstone than Content Creation
when overclocked. At stock speeds all memory performs the same, but then again
it should - same memory size, same speed with similar timings.
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