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Test System
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Hardware |
Model |
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Motherboard: |
Asus P5AD2 Premium |
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CPU: |
Intel Pentium 4
3.4GHz |
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Power Supply: |
OCZ PowerStream 600w |
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Video Card: |
MSI X600XT-PCIE |
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Memory: |
OCZ
DDR2 PC2-4200
CL=3-2-2-8 |
Testing &
Overclocking
I'll be using SiSoft
Sandra, PCMark04 and Everest home edition for the benchmarks today. As far as
the settings
go, I'll be testing the memory at the rated default speed of 533Mhz with default settings of 3-2-2-8. We will also overclock the memory as
far as we can using all the memory voltage the board will allow and
relaxed timings. This should allow us to get the most out of this memory.
Before we get to the results, let's find out just how much we could get out of
the memory. Using the option in the BIOS to lower the multiplier
to 14, I was able to push the front side bus up to 263MHz. Using
the memory ratio of 3:4 that put the memory up to 702MHz.
702MHz was achieved by setting the voltage to 2.1v and the timings at
4-4-4-12. I was able to take the memory all the way up to 615MHz
with the timings at 3-2-2-8. Anything above that required loose
timings. Let's take a look at the performance.
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Sandra
2005.1.10.37 |
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Sandra scales up nicely.
You can see that 702MHz produces nice scores. I know that a lot of
you have gotten higher scores than this with DDR, but I can guarantee
that you haven't gotten your DDR to run at 700+MHz. As DDR2
becomes more refined, we'll start to see lower timings. OCZ has
proven that with the Enhanced Bandwidth memory. Just a few months
ago you couldn't get DDR2 to overclock at all if it wasn't running with CAS4-4-4-12
timings.
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PCMark04 Memory
Test |
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