Benchmarks: Applications


The Photoshop benchmark from Driverheaven performs a series of actions on a large photo and displays the time it takes.



Tight timings are the key for this benchmark, which give you a boost of up to 4%... not impressive.

Benchmarks: Games


F.E.A.R. has an in-game performance benchmark which we used here, details were set to low game and resolution to 800x600, this offloads the video card and stresses the CPU/Memory/Motherboard more.



Even at this none GPU limited setting the maximum increase is only 6%, and you can see it becoming a trend with PC5300 performing lower than the expected.

The ID Software engines always been very good benchmark tools to measure system performance, at 800x600 we got these results:



Well, here the results almost reflect those got from the synthetic Sisoft Sandra benchmark, if you play Quake 4 at these settings with your high end video card, be sure to get high end memory! ;-)

However if you do want to turn up the eye candy and get the most from your system, you might find that the increase in memory bandwidth for your Core 2 is not paying off:




Let?s warp things up ->