DDR2 Roundup: Reaching for 667 and Beyond
by Wesley Fink on July 8, 2004 12:09 AM EST- Posted in
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Benchmarks & Test Settings
We ran our standard suite of memory performance benchmarks, plus we added two new benchmarks to our test suite. Quake3 is an excellent game for memory benchmarking, since it is very sensitive to memory timings, but it is an older Open GL game that is becoming a bit long-in-tooth for benchmarking. While we have continued to run and report Q3 results, we have added the more recent Return to Castle Wolfenstein - Enemy Territory to our game benchmarks. RCW-ET has also proven sensitive to changes in memory timings and it is also a stock benchmark in current video testing.We have also added the synthetic memory benchmarks in Aida 32. This freeware memory test reports both memory read and write results, allowing a more in-depth look at the operations that comprise memory bandwidth. We have also added a Total Aida 32 result to provide an easier comparison of total memory bandwidth.
The following settings were tested with all eight DDR2 memories in the roundup:
- 800FSB/DDR2-533 - the highest stock speed supported on 925X/915 motherboards.
- 1000FSB/DDR2-667 - a standard speed rating that represents a future memory speed for DDR2 on the Intel platform
- 1032FSB/DDR2-686 - the highest setting currently usable on the test motherboard with PCIe Video Card and SATA Hard Drive
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Wesley Fink - Thursday, July 8, 2004 - link
#9 - Actually the first number was copied incorrectly and has now been fixed. The tRas 11 line on p.3 now reads 5303-2344-7647.FlameDeer - Thursday, July 8, 2004 - link
Hi Wesley, nice article. :)Something to change:
At page 3, Micron PC2-4300U Table, Row tRAS 11,
Aida 32 Total should be "7697".
MIDIman - Thursday, July 8, 2004 - link
> When can we expect DDR2 for A64?http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...
mczak - Thursday, July 8, 2004 - link
Nice article, a real pity though there are no performance numbers for overclocked FSB only (i.e. FSB 258 / DDR2-"516"). There are some reasons to believe memory performance would also be quite a bit higher than with FSB200/DDR2-533...Bozo Galora - Thursday, July 8, 2004 - link
Another clear concise mem article by Prometheus.KillaKilla - Thursday, July 8, 2004 - link
When can we expect DDR2 for A64? Even thouthe they aren't so affected by lack of memory bandwidth...rjm55 - Thursday, July 8, 2004 - link
I am not usually that much into memory articles, but this is one of the best reviews I have seen on the new Intel architecture. It was surprising that even the budget DDR2 did 667. When will Intel be launching 667 as an "official" DDR2 speed?Anemone - Thursday, July 8, 2004 - link
VERY nice article - and informative on the limits that no one else is authoritatively reviewing. Thankyou and keep them coming!:)
skiboysteve - Thursday, July 8, 2004 - link
or... im blind..skiboysteve - Thursday, July 8, 2004 - link
you should mention in the benchmarks which modules are DS and SS, so people dont go ape shit over poor performance of say... GEIL..