Searching for the Memory Holy Grail - Part 2
by Wesley Fink on August 26, 2003 11:11 PM EST- Posted in
- Memory
Performance Test Configuration
| Performance Test Configuration | |
| Processor(s): | Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz (800MHz FSB) |
| RAM: | 2 x 512 MB Adata PC4000 (DS) 2 x 512 MB Corsair PC4000 (DS) 2 x 512 MB Geil PC4000 (DS) 4 x 256 MB Kingston PC4000 (SS) 2 x 512 MB OCZ PC4000 (DS) 4 x 256 MB OCZ PC3700 GOLD (DS) |
| Hard Drives | Two Western Digital Raptor Serial ATA 36.7GB 10,000RPM drives in an Intel ICH5R RAID 0 configuration |
| PCI/AGP Speed | Fixed at 33/66 |
| Bus Master Drivers: | 875P Intel INF Update v5.00.1012, SATA RAID drivers installed, but IAA not installed |
| Video Card(s): | ATI 9800 PRO 128 MB, 128 MB aperture, 1024x768x32 |
| Video Drivers: | ATI Catalyst 3.6 |
| Operating System(s): | Windows XP Professional SP1 |
| Motherboards: | ASUS P4C800-E (875) with 1.010 Release BIOS |
We asked major memory manufacturers to supply DDR500 or the fastest memory that they had available for comparison in our High-Speed memory roundup. Not all manufacturers had DDR500 memory available, and some chose not to supply memory for our testing. All DDR500 memory was supplied by the Manufacturers to AnandTech for testing except Adata PC4000. Instead, Adata supplied DDR450 memory for our roundup. Although it performed very well in our testing, it did not reach our minimum requirement of DDR500 levels of performance, and thus, we did not believe it was fair to include Adata 450 in a roundup of DDR500. The Adata DDR500, however, was located and the retail product was purchased for the review.
Since OCZ 3700 GOLD was the first memory that we tested at AnandTech to have reached DDR500 performance levels, we also included it in our testing. Because the 3700 GOLD allows faster memory timings at some of our tested speeds, it also gave us an opportunity to see the impact of memory timings on test results.
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Anonymous User - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
Okay... So I have the kingston ram, and I pulled it out to take a look at it... it has 4 chips on each side.. does that make it double sided or does that mean it's a single sided like the one in this article?Wesley Fink - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
#2 -As I said in the review "You will have to decide if the increases in performance from using faster memory are worth the cost of that speedier memory. For some, these increases will matter a great deal, while for others, they will not be worth the cost."
Anonymous User - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
OCZ Rocks :-DAnonymous User - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - link
#1, get a life, no one likes a blind haters. OCZ has proven themselves, I'm sorry your you feel your geek life has been threatened.Anyway, great review as always Wesley. Keep up the excellent work. :)
AgaBooga - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - link
I am currently reading the first page and I saw "Quake3 Demo FOUR.dm_66" and since I was first browsing it before reading it, I think it said "Quake FOUR!" But then, I went back since I was scrolling down quickly only to see it was Quack ;) 3, hehe.Anonymous User - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - link
You have got to be kidding me. You're going to suggest that 6fps(at most) in UT2003 is worth spending double the price on RAM?Anonymous User - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 - link
Well I'm not going to bother reading the article, but I'll take a wild guess and say OCZ was declared the winner.