Date: September 27th, 2003.
Article by: Nathan Glentworth
(Owner, Head Editor & Hardware Reviewer)
Product was donated by: OCZ Technologies
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BENCHMARKING SETUP AND COMPOSITION
Intel P4 2.4C 800FSB Retail CPU Check
Prices
Abit IC7-G Max II Advance Canterwood Motherboard (BIOS Revision Version
16): Check
Prices
512 megs Corsair TwinX Dual Channel Series PC3200 Low Latency Memory Check
Prices
512 megs OCZ Platinum Dual Channel Series PC3200 Low Latency Memory Check
Prices
ATI All-in-Wonder 9800pro Check
Prices
Catalyst 3.5 Videocard Drivers
Windows XP Professional SP1 Check
Prices
Seagate Barracuda V SATA ATA-150 HD Check
Prices (Soyo Only)
Intel Application Accelerator ver2.3
Hyperthreading and PAT Enabled
Benchmarking Programs Used:
- 3DMARK2001SE
- PCMARK2002 (MEMORY)
- SISOFT SANDRA MEMORY BANDWIDTH BENCHMARK
- GLEXCESS v1.2V BENCHMARK
- QUAKE 3 Q3CRUSH DEMO BENCHMARK
Processor Configurations Used:
- 2.4C @ 2.4Ghz (DDR400) (1:1) (2-5-3-2 Ram Timings) OCZ
& Corsair
- 2.4C @ 3.0Ghz (DDR400) (5:4) (2-5-3-2 Ram Timings) OCZ & Corsair
- 2.4C @ 3.19Ghz (5:4) (DDR420) (3-8-4-4 Ram Timings) [Maximum Overclock
Obtained by OCZ]
- 2.4C @ 3.40Ghz (5:4) (DDR452) (3-8-4-4 Ram Timings) [Maximum Overclock
Obtained by Corsair]
Benchmarking Explained:
With the different configurations seen above, I will be testing the OCZ
memory clock for clock against the equivalent Corsair TwinX Memory I have
reviewed previously. Everything else is absolutely identical right down
to the software and drivers. Also included is the maximum overclock that
could be obtained with each memory kit to show the reader what kind of
performance improvements you can get from each memory set.
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