High Speed DDR2: Buffalo and Crucial Deliver 1000+
by Wesley Fink on July 7, 2006 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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DDR2 1067 (1:2) Performance
Performance does improve a bit with the added speed of DDR2-1067, but much of the speed increase is lost to the slower memory timings required at DDR2-1067. All three DDR2-1000 memories based on Micron chips reached this next performance level and beyond with ease.
It is worth carefully comparing the DDR2-1000 results provided in the charts for each memory with the DDR2-1067 results. Performance is generally better at DDR2-1000 with all 3 memories tested here. This is partly the result of the modest overclock to a clock setting of 300 and a FSB of 1200. However, required timings are also lower with memory at DDR2-1000 and that also contributes to improved performance. With the future Core 2 Duo test bed providing added multipliers, we should be able to more closely compare DDR2-1000 performance to other values without having to overclock the bus to reach this memory speed.
Performance does improve a bit with the added speed of DDR2-1067, but much of the speed increase is lost to the slower memory timings required at DDR2-1067. All three DDR2-1000 memories based on Micron chips reached this next performance level and beyond with ease.
It is worth carefully comparing the DDR2-1000 results provided in the charts for each memory with the DDR2-1067 results. Performance is generally better at DDR2-1000 with all 3 memories tested here. This is partly the result of the modest overclock to a clock setting of 300 and a FSB of 1200. However, required timings are also lower with memory at DDR2-1000 and that also contributes to improved performance. With the future Core 2 Duo test bed providing added multipliers, we should be able to more closely compare DDR2-1000 performance to other values without having to overclock the bus to reach this memory speed.
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Wesley Fink - Saturday, July 8, 2006 - link
That is DDR2-533 is DDR2-533 on BOTH Intel and AMD.rallyhard - Friday, July 7, 2006 - link
Wow, that's some nice memory!Kinda makes me feel a little less rediculously proud of the Mushkin XP2 PC2-5300 2gb sticks that I'll possess tomorrow.
Oh well, at least I paid less than half the price of either of these!
And to the above poster: Get a life!
TheGlassman - Friday, July 7, 2006 - link
And since they were not tested on AM2, no point for me to consider any of them.ShoNuff - Friday, July 7, 2006 - link
First in!!! I've allways wanted to do that...reading now.