Low latency PC3200 memory roundup on Intel

Memory by jmke @ 2004-11-03

We test a new batch of PC3200 and PC4400 rated memory from known and lesser known manufacteres on our Intel P4 test setup. With the introduction of Samsung?s TCCD revision F memory chips we might get performance only seen in the days of Winbond BH-5!

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Introduction

These times are good times, at least for those in the market for some new memory sticks. When Winbond stopped the production of their BH-5/6 series we saw manufactures change to memory chips which featured more relaxed timings. Where Winbond could keep tightest timings at CL2 2-2-5 the next generation had to make do with CL2 2-3-6.

The performance difference between CL2 2-2-5 and CL2 2-3-6 is far from shocking, but hardware enthusiast tend to want to best what’s out there.

Lucky for us where Winbond dropped the ball, Samsung picked it up and recently introduced a new batch of memchips capable of those tight timings. Today we have a collection of 1Gb PC3200 kits from different brands which all use those shiny new Samsung chips.

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PC-Memory-Upgrade.co.uk, Mushkin and GSkill provided us the following:


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G.Skill GSKILL F1-3200DSU2-1GBLE
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Mushkin PC3200 LVLII V2
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PDP PC3200 Patriot Xtreme
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OCZ EL PC3200 Platinum Revision 2
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A-DATA PC4800
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OCZ's EL PC4400 Gold



The only memory stick included in this roundup not sporting Samsung’s latest is OCZ’s EL PC4400 Gold which features Hynix BTD5, rated at 275Mhz CL2.5 4-4-8.

Let’s start up our Intel test rig ->
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