Testing at 133BclkAs we explained on page 2, our first benchmark suite was run at a base clock of 133, and a memory divider of 2:10 resulting in about 1333Mhz memory speed. We used the best possible timings at a command rate of 1T, and this is the list for the different modules :
- OCZ Platinum : 6-6-5-18-1T
- Mushkin Radioactive : 6-6-6-20-1T
- Corsair Dominator : 6-6-6-20-1T
- Geil Value : 7-7-6-20-1T
- G.Skill : 7-7-6-20-1T
- Qimonda-Aeneon : 7-7-7-20-1T
- Patriot Viper : 7-7-6-20-1T
- Crucial Ballistix : 6-6-6-20-1T
Test results - bandwidth and latencyFirst in our benchmark suite are the bandwidth tests for which we use
SiSoftware's Sandra application. The
System
ANalyser,
Diagnostic and
Reporting
Assistant is an information and diagnostic utility which has a very nice benchmark suite, in which you can compare your system to a range of other reference systems. The Bandwidth is one of the available benchmarks. Alternatively, for bandwidth measurements, we can use the Everest application from
Lavalys, which consistently gives higher results, but the scaling is (almost) the same as Sisoftware's Sandra :
The logic of the timings is for a great deal respected, except when it comes down to the Crucial kit, which finishes last in the Sandra test, and would finish 4th in the Everest test. Seems like Everest treats the 3Gb kit different than Sandra : Sandra pushes the bandwidth of a 3Gb kit down so it seems compared to the other 6Gb kits.
Next up is the Latency result, for which we use Everest once more:
Surprise : Crucial finishes on top here. As said, Everest makes no difference between 3Gb or 6Gb kits.
Let's look at the other 133bclk benchmarks on the next page >>
I was just about to buy a kit of OCZ Platinum, nice to see the overclocking results here, thank you. Should probably mention the 6GB OCZ Platinum 1600MHz kit is available for $80 shipped AMIR, cheapest 1600MHz kit of all those tested.