Mushkin Redline XP4000: Winbond with Voltage Be Damned
by Wesley Fink on May 16, 2005 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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Performance Test Configuration
The Mushkin Redline XP4000 was tested with the DFI LANParty nF4 SLI-DR Athlon 64 Socket 939 motherboard. The DFI nForce4 SLI and Ultra are the only current production boards that support the 3.3V to 3.5V rated voltages required for Redline DDR500 performance. An OCZ DDR Booster can be used with motherboards without support for high memory voltages. Other components remain the same as used in the memory setup in Athlon 64 Memory: Rewriting the Rules.The A64 test bed includes components that have been proven in Socket 939 Athlon 64 benchmarking, such as the Socket 939 4000+, and the OCZ Power Stream 520 Power Supply. Since the Athlon 64 tests represent a new series of DDR testing, we have chosen the current generation NVIDIA 6800 Ultra video card for benchmarking. We have found the 6800 Ultra to be a particularly good performance match to NVIDIA motherboards.
All other basic test conditions attempted to mirror those used in our earlier Intel memory reviews. However, test results are not directly comparable to tests performed on the Intel test bed.
| AMD nForce4 Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor(s): | AMD 4000+ (FX53) Athlon 64 (2.4GHz, Socket 939, 1 MB cache, Dual Channel, 1000HT) |
| RAM: | Mushkin Redline XP4000 (DS) 2X512MB Kingston KVR400X64C25/512 (DS) 2X512MB Kingston KVR400X64C3AK2/1G (DS) 2X512MB Mushkin PC3200 EM (DS) 2X512MB OCZ PC3200 Value Series (VX) (DS) 2X512MB OCZ PC3200 Gold (BH5) (DS) 2X512MB OCZ PC3200 Premier (DS) 2X512MB Transcend JM366D643A-50 (DS) 2X512MB Patriot PC3200+XLBT (DS) 2X512MB OCZ EL PC4000 VX Gold (DS) 2X512MB Corsair TwinX1024-4400C25 (DS) 2X512MB Crucial Ballistix (DS) 2X512MB OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev 2 (DS) 2X512MB |
| Hard Drives: | Seagate 120GB SATA 7200RPM 8MB Cache |
| PCI/AGP Speed: | Fixed at 33/66 |
| Bus Master Drivers: | NVIDIA nForce Platform Driver 6.53 |
| Video Card(s): | NVIDIA 6800 Ultra 256MB PCIe, 256MB aperture, 1024x768x32 |
| Video Drivers: | NVIDIA Forceware 71.89 Release |
| Power Supply: | OCZ Power Stream 520W |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP2 |
| Motherboard: | DFI LANParty nF4 SLI-DR |
| BIOS: | 3/10/2005 Release |
In past benchmarking, we have found performance of the nForce4 and nForce3 chipsets to be virtually identical, and we have found AGP and PCIe performance to be virtually the same in the benchmarks that we use for memory testing. Therefore, you can also generally compare these results to TCCD benchmarks in recent memory reviews.
With nForce3 motherboards, the fastest performance on AMD Athlon 64 was at a Cycle Time or tRAS of 10. However, the nForce4 behave a bit differently with memory. We ran a complete set of Memtest86 benchmarks with only tRAS varied to determine the best tRAS setting for these memories, and found the best bandwidth at tRAS settings ranging from 5 to 8. Therefore, a tRAS setting of 6 was used for testing.
Test Settings
All AMD Athlon 64 processors are unlocked downward, and the FX CPUs are unlocked up and down. This feature allows a different approach to memory testing, which truly measures performance differences in memory speed alone. All tests were run with CPU speed as close to the specified 2.4GHz of the 4000+/FX53 as possible, with CPU speed/Memory Speed increased at lower multipliers to achieve 2.4Ghz. This approach allows the true measurement of the impact of higher memory speed and timings on performance, since CPU speed is fixed, thereby removing CPU speed as a factor in memory performance.The following settings were tested with the Mushkin Redline XP4000 on the DFI nF4 test bed:
- 2.4GHz-12x200/DDR400 - the highest stock memory speed supported on VIA 939/nF3-4/SiS755-FX motherboards
- 2.4GHz-11x218/DDR436 - a ratio near the standard DDR433 speed
- 2.4GHz-10x240/DDR480 - a ratio near the standard rating of DDR466
- 2.4GHz -9x267/DDR533 - a memory speed achieved by only a few top memories on the Athlon 64
- Highest Memory Performance - the highest memory bandwidth and game performance that we could achieve with the memory being tested; this is rarely the highest memory speed that we could achieve. It is normally a lower speed with 1T Command Rate and tighter memory timings.
We ran our standard suite of memory performance benchmarks: Quake 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein-Enemy Territory-Radar, Super Pi 2M, and Sandra 2004 Standard and UnBuffered. We also included Everest Home Edition memory tests, free at www.lavalys.com, for read speed, write speed, and Latency.
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jermaink - Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - link
I'm just wondering what cooling was used for this RAM at the high voltages. I'm thinking of getting some, and I'm wondering if using a Zalman FB123 in 'silent mode' would be sufficient.melgross - Monday, May 30, 2005 - link
Well, here's something interesting for the DDR2 is too expensive crowd:http://www.eet.com/news/semi/showArticle.jhtml;jse...
Spajky - Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - link
@ fitten (#18): >there is no such thing as "super stable". It's either stable or it isn't< TRUE !I have a very special way of testing OC-ed hardware if is stable, check my site ...
@ Barkuti (#22): >A retest for the not that high clockspeed modules would be nice< I Agree, by maybe adding another test program for testing them, see my proposal downthere ...
Using Sandra mem.bench: the problem is that 95% of people do not understand properly, what are those results Sandra gives them & do not know how much impact have on real life PC performance. So for ordinary user, Sandra mem.benchmark tells a s**t!
My (research) article "about BENCH´ING MEMORY -real life"
with WinRAR´s built_in benchmark & hardware test" - on my site:
some tests/benchmarks & explanation HOW IT WORKS, is here directly:
http://freeweb.siol.net/jerman55/HP/benchMem.htm
[especially the yellow column is interesting!]
/sorry, I didn´t make any graphs/
Spajky - Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - link
@ fitten (#18): >there is no such thing as "super stable". It's either stable or it isn't< TRUE !I have a very special way of testing OC-ed hardware if is stable, check my site ...
@ Barkuti (#22): >A retest for the not that high clockspeed modules would be nice< I Agree, by maybe adding another test program for testing them, see my proposal downthere ...
Using Sandra mem.bench: the problem is that 95% of people do not understand properly, what are those results Sandra gives them & do not know how much impact have on real life PC performance. So for ordinary user, Sandra mem.benchmark tells a s**t!
My (research) article "about BENCH´ING MEMORY -real life"
with WinRAR´s built_in benchmark & hardware test" - on my site:
some tests/benchmarks & explanation HOW IT WORKS, is here directly:
http://freeweb.siol.net/jerman55/HP/benchMem.htm
[especially the yellow column is interesting!]
/sorry, I didn´t make any graphs/
Spajky - Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - link
@ fitten (#18): >there is no such thing as "super stable". It's either stable or it isn't< TRUE !I have a very special way of testing OC-ed hardware if is stable, check my site ...
@ Barkuti (#22): >A retest for the not that high clockspeed modules would be nice< I Agree, by maybe adding another test program for testing them, see my proposal downthere ...
Using Sandra mem.bench: the problem is that 95% of people do not understand properly, what are those results Sandra gives them & do not know how much impact have on real life PC performance. So for ordinary user, Sandra mem.benchmark tells a s**t!
My (research) article "about BENCH´ING MEMORY -real life"
with WinRAR´s built_in benchmark & hardware test" - on my site:
some tests/benchmarks & explanation HOW IT WORKS, is here directly:
http://freeweb.siol.net/jerman55/HP/benchMem.htm
[especially the yellow column is interesting!]
/sorry, I didn´t make any graphs/
Spajky - Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - link
@ fitten (#18): >there is no such thing as "super stable". It's either stable or it isn't< TRUE !I have a very special way of testing OC-ed hardware if is stable, check my site ...
@ Barkuti (#22): >A retest for the not that high clockspeed modules would be nice< I Agree, by maybe adding another test program for testing them, see my proposal downthere ...
Using Sandra mem.bench: the problem is that 95% of people do not understand properly, what are those results Sandra gives them & do not know how much impact have on real life PC performance. So for ordinary user, Sandra mem.benchmark tells a s**t!
My (research) article "about BENCH´ING MEMORY -real life"
with WinRAR´s built_in benchmark & hardware test" - on my site:
some tests/benchmarks & explanation HOW IT WORKS, is here directly:
http://freeweb.siol.net/jerman55/HP/benchMem.htm
[especially the yellow column is interesting!]
/sorry, I didn´t make any graphs/
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Spajky - Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - link
@ fitten (#18): >there is no such thing as "super stable". It's either stable or it isn't< TRUE !I have a very special way of testing OC-ed hardware if is stable, check my site ...
@ Barkuti (#22): >A retest for the not that high clockspeed modules would be nice< I Agree, by maybe adding another test program for testing them, see my proposal downthere ...
Using Sandra mem.bench: the problem is that 95% of people do not understand properly, what are those results Sandra gives them & do not know how much impact have on real life PC performance. So for ordinary user, Sandra mem.benchmark tells a s**t!
My (research) article "about BENCH´ING MEMORY -real life"
with WinRAR´s built_in benchmark & hardware test" - on my site:
some tests/benchmarks & explanation HOW IT WORKS, is here directly:
http://freeweb.siol.net/jerman55/HP/benchMem.htm
[especially the yellow column is interesting!]
/sorry, I didn´t make any graphs/
Spajky - Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - link
@ fitten (#18): >there is no such thing as "super stable". It's either stable or it isn't< TRUE !I have a very special way of testing OC-ed hardware if is stable, check my site ...
@ Barkuti (#22): >A retest for the not that high clockspeed modules would be nice< I Agree, by maybe adding another test program for testing them, see my proposal downthere ...
Using Sandra mem.bench: the problem is that 95% of people do not understand properly, what are those results Sandra gives them & do not know how much impact have on real life PC performance. So for ordinary user, Sandra mem.benchmark tells a s**t!
My (research) article "about BENCH´ING MEMORY -real life"
with WinRAR´s built_in benchmark & hardware test" - on my site:
some tests/benchmarks & explanation HOW IT WORKS, is here directly:
http://freeweb.siol.net/jerman55/HP/benchMem.htm
[especially the yellow column is interesting!]
/sorry, I didn´t make any graphs/
Spajky - Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - link
@ fitten (#18): >there is no such thing as "super stable". It's either stable or it isn't< TRUE !I have a very special way of testing OC-ed hardware if is stable, check my site ...
@ Barkuti (#22): >A retest for the not that high clockspeed modules would be nice< I Agree, by maybe adding another test program for testing them, see my proposal downthere ...
Using Sandra mem.bench: the problem is that 95% of people do not understand properly, what are those results Sandra gives them & do not know how much impact have on real life PC performance. So for ordinary user, Sandra mem.benchmark tells a s**t!
My (research) article "about BENCH´ING MEMORY -real life"
with WinRAR´s built_in benchmark & hardware test" - on my site:
some tests/benchmarks & explanation HOW IT WORKS, is here directly:
http://freeweb.siol.net/jerman55/HP/benchMem.htm
[especially the yellow column is interesting!]
/sorry, I didn´t make any graphs/
Spajky - Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - link
@ fitten (#18): >there is no such thing as "super stable". It's either stable or it isn't< TRUE !I have a very special way of testing OC-ed hardware if is stable, check my site ...
@ Barkuti (#22): >A retest for the not that high clockspeed modules would be nice< I Agree, by maybe adding another test program for testing them, see my proposal downthere ...
Using Sandra mem.bench: the problem is that 95% of people do not understand properly, what are those results Sandra gives them & do not know how much impact have on real life PC performance. So for ordinary user, Sandra mem.benchmark tells a s**t!
My (research) article "about BENCH´ING MEMORY -real life"
with WinRAR´s built_in benchmark & hardware test" - on my site:
some tests/benchmarks & explanation HOW IT WORKS, is here directly:
http://freeweb.siol.net/jerman55/HP/benchMem.htm
[especially the yellow column is interesting!]
/sorry, I didn´t make any graphs/