Date: April 20th, 2004
Article by: Nathan Glentworth (Owner, Head Editor & Hardware Reviewer)
Product was donated by: OCZ Technology

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BENCHMARKING (cont'd)

SISOFT SANDRA 2003 PROFESSIONAL MEMORY BANDWIDTH BENCHMARK

This can be summed up in one simple, yet effective phrase........"WOW!" With such ridiculously high bandwidth results such as these, memory bottlenecks can be ruled out completely. Unfortunately, I don't think that the P4C is capable of properly utilizing the increase in memory speed across the board.

Again, practically identical results from both fields.

AIDA32 MEMORY READ & WRITE BENCHMARK

AIDA32 is a new benchmark we will be utilizing on Tweaknews.net. With full read and write benchmark capability, it finishes off by filling the memory write benchmarking void left by SiSoft SANDRA.

As you can see through the results, the PC4400 specification does free up a lot of bandwidth over PC3200 standard. Memory read times are up over 1.691Gb per second and write times are almost doubled.

The debated issue lately is if the Intel Pentium 4 platform actually takes advantage of the extra bandwidth. The argument is still undecided.