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[M]emory roundup Q1 2003

Memory by richbastard @ 2003-04-24

With NForce2 motherboards capable of FSB speeds far beyond 200mhz and Intel Canterwood (875P) boards reaching an insane 300mhz FSB, it might be a good idea to go shop for some new memory.
Madshrimps has tested 7 popular high speed memory sticks for you. Different Corsair, TwinmoS, Apacer and Samsung sticks were put to the test. Which one will be your next buy?

Test setups

Test Setup:

AMD Test rig:

Epox nforce2 motherboard (8rda+ rev1.0 1.8vdd mod)

1800+ JIUHB

R9700 Pro

QTec 550W PSU

Intel Test rig:

Gigabyte 845PE motherboard (3/4 memory divider mod)

P4 2.4B

KyroII 4500

300W PSU

To obtain the highest error-free mhz, the memory had to pass 1 loop of memtest86 (about 15 minutes).

Sisoft Sandra ver 2003.3.9.44 and Futuremark PCMark was used for the synthetic memory benchmarks.

I didn't run benchmarks which were not entirely ram/chipset dependend, like Superpi or 3DMark02/03. Difference in memory mhz also results in different absolute cpu speed, making a comparison useless. This review is not made to show the general improvement when running at 200 instead of 166mhz FSB, but it's made to show which memory is capable to run at certain speeds and timings.

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