Testing

Test Rig:
Amd 64 3500+
Dfi Lanparty NF4 SLI-DR
XFX PCX6600
Hiper TypeR 580W

For testing I decided to put the sticks through their paces in Sisoft Sandra, Everest Home Edition, SuperPi and the FEAR graphics test. I did these with different timings at different clock speeds to show what kind of performance gains can be got from these sticks as higher clock speeds.

First Test was Sandra Bandwidth Test:

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It’s obvious that these sticks love a nice Overclock, but they weren’t too friendly with the tighter timings, actually registering a lower score than the stock timings which were looser. The 260FSB mark was the highest I could hit without using a divider. I could get slightly higher on 2.9v but it wasn’t stable enough to bench.

Next Up was Everest Home Edition:

Unsurprisingly the trend was the same, the trend was the same. The tighter timings did nothing and the Overclock helped kick out some awesome scores.

SuperPI mod 1.4 :

Interestingly, in this test, the tighter timings did make a slight difference, though it’s nothing to scream about. I was quite impressed with the scores obtained here. The top score was not the fastest score I have ever got compared to when I have used some other kits, but those were at least $200 more expensive so that is understandable.

For a quick real world test, I kicked out a few Fear Benchmarks. As usual these were done at MAX CPU Load detail, and Medium GPU Load detail:

In this test the ram obviously had very little effect on the outcome FPS as this game is much more GPU intensive than anything else.