Mushkin & Adata: 2 for the Fast-Timings Lane
by Wesley Fink on September 1, 2003 11:18 PM EST- Posted in
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Performance Tests
Mushkin PC3500 Level II, Adata 450, and all of the Memory in our Part 2 roundup was compared at DDR400. Results are compared for Quake 3, Sandra UNBufferred Memory Test, Sandra Buffered Memory Test, and Super PI. The Sandra Memory Test reports 2 results for each memory test — an Integer value and a Float value. We considered adding the results together for our tests, but felt it might be difficult to compare to other Sandra UNBuffered test results.| Intel 875P DDR400 — 800FSB Memory Performance | |||||
| Memory | Memory Timings & Voltage |
Quake3 fps |
Sandra UNBuffered | Sandra Standard Buffered |
Super PI 2M places (time in sec) |
| Mushkin PC3500 Level II 2-2-2 — 2 x 512MB DS |
2-2-2-6 2.55v |
328.30 | INT 3091 FLT 3145 |
INT 4942 FLT 4901 |
126 |
| OCZ 3700 Gold — 2 x 256MB DS |
2-2-3-6 2.55v |
328.07 | INT 2840 FLT 2852 |
INT 4821 FLT 4789 |
130 |
| Kingston HyperX 4000 — 4 x 256MB SS |
2.5-3-3-6 2.55v |
324.30 | INT 2514 FLT 2500 |
INT 4735 FLT 4757 |
131 |
| Corsair XMS4000 — 2 x 512MB DS |
2.5-3-4-5 2.55v |
319.63 | INT 2636 FLT 2647 |
INT 4702 FLT 4740 |
132 |
| Kingston HyperX 4000 — 2 x 256MB SS |
2.5-3-3-6 2.55v |
320.13 | INT 2589 FLT 2671 |
INT 4808 FLT 4745 |
132 |
| OCZ 4000 Copper — 2 x 512MB DS |
2.5-3-4-5 2.55v |
319.67 | INT 2620 FLT 2657 |
INT 4701 FLT 4742 |
132 |
| Adata DDR450 2 x 256MB SS |
2-2-3-7 2.65v |
311.0 | INT 2590 FLT 2667 |
INT 4776 FLT 4744 |
132 |
| Adata PC4000 — 2 x 512MB DS |
2.5-3-3-6 2.55v |
326.47 | INT 2655 FLT 2624 |
INT 4704 FLT 4745 |
133 |
| Geil Platinum 4000 — 2 x 512MB DS |
2.5-3-4-5 2.55v |
321.53 | INT 2612 FLT 2646 |
INT 4701 FLT 4710 |
133 |
Results reported in our charts are the result of averaging the INT and FLOAT scores, which are normally close in value. INT and FLOAT scores were added and divided by 2 for our reported score. Since this is basically a continuation of our “Searching for the Memory Holy Grail” series, which examines the best performing configuration and memory for the 875/865 chipset, we have only included Intel 875 Performance Data in our charts.
Since current AMD systems really can’t use memory with DDR500 performance, and don’t require DDR500 for best performance, they were not included in earlier parts of this survey. However, DDR400 performance is very important on AMD boards, so we have included AMD memory performance for Mushkin and Adata.
| AMD nForce2 Ultra 400 DDR400 — 400FSB Memory Performance | |||||
| Memory | Memory Timings & Voltage |
Quake3 fps |
Sandra UNBuffered | Sandra Standard Buffered |
Super PI 2M places (time in sec) |
| Mushkin PC3500 Level II 2-2-2 2 x 512MB DS |
2-2-2-4 2.55v |
353.03 | INT 1475 FLT 1589 |
INT 3073 FLT 2905 |
101 |
| Adata DDR450 2 x 256MB SS |
2-2-3-4 2.65v |
344.6 | INT 1402 FLT 1503 |
INT 3060 FLT 2880 |
104 |
Intel and AMD Performance numbers from these tests should not be compared. These tests were designed to benchmark memory performance. Due to differences in architecture, the AMD Barton testbed is running at 3200+ in these tests while the Pentium 4 2.4C is running at 2.4Ghz.
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Wesley Fink - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link
MUSHKIN PC3500 LEVEL II AT FSB1000, 5:4 (DDR400, 2-2-2-5)We ran 1000FSB (500) at 5:4 with Mushkin PC3500 Level II at CAS 2-2-2-5. The testbed and ALL hardware and settings were the same as this review except for FSB/Ratio. Results are:
Sandra UNBuffered - 2964/2959 or avg. 2962
Sandra Buffered (Standard) ? 5470/5468 or avg. 5469
Quake 3 ? 393.7fps
UT2003 ? Flyby: 241.84
Botmatch: 87.66
SuperPI (2M places) ? 105s
Write these numbers down and compare them to DDR400 on page 8&9 and DDR500 in Part 2 Page 14 (500FSB/DDR500) charts. You will see that 5:4 2-2-2-5 is very close to the performance of the DDR500.
Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link
Oops... I have to take my last comment back. :(I have read through the whole article, and I dont see 250 FSB 1:1 3-4-4-8 vs 5:4 2-2-2-5 (200fsb vs. 250fsb ram speed) If they arent both tested together at the same CPU speed and FSB, only with the mem speed and timings change, its not perfect... But still a good review anyhow. :D
Retrospooty
Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link
Awesome review Wes,You took user feedback from the last review and tested your ram in a way NO OTHER REVIEWER HAS DONE SO FAR !!!! The right way.
Well done my friend, well done.
Retrospooty
Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link
Black is cool!the mushkin PC3500 Level II is the perfect combination with a IC7 Max3.
Anonymous User - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link
Given your propensity (and abuse by others) for OCZ, why did'nt you include OCZ platinum 3500 which is their ultra low latency RAM in this test. I have 2x256Mb OCZ platinum PC3200 (PC3500 wasnt and still isn't available in Australia when I built my system) in an ABIT IC7-G with 2.6C CPU. I get 2-2-2-5 to 190Mhz, 2-2-3-5 to 218 MHz and up to 230MHz on looser settings. I am moderately satisfied with this but I was offered CORSAIR XMS 3200 at time of purchase and, given your comments about Rev 1.1, I perhaps regret the path I took!wicktron - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link
I think you need to change the titles of the graphs on this page: http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.html?i=185...to DDR400 rather than DDR500.
wicktron - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 - link
Great review Wes.