I will be testing this module on an Abit NF7-S Rev 2.0 because it is the best socket A motherboard on the market right now in my opinion and supports dual channel memory. Benchmarking will be done using SiSoft Sandra 2004 Professional, 3DMark2001SE, Quake 3, Jedi Knight II, and Unreal Tournament 2003. All of the timings on the RAM will be set to 2-2-2 1T making it the fastest possible.
Test Bed:
- Abit NF7-S Rev 2.0
- 1800+ Thoroughbred
- 60GB Seagate Barracuda IV HDD
- 1024MB PC3200 Corsair TwinX
- XFX GeForceFX 5600 Ultra
- Koolcase’s Panther
- Plextor 40x12x40 CDRW
- Plextor PX-504A DVD+RW
- SilenX 400w PSU (review to come)
- AOpen AC7L2 heatsink (review to come)
SiSoft is one of the most used benchmarks to see what kind of memory bandwidth your system is outputting. All of the speeds were set to the fastest in the BIOS which were 2-2-2-5 1T so that I would get the best performance possible. At 133FSB the Int Buffered score was 2039 and the Float Buffered score was 1922. After kicking the FSB to 166 you can see a huge boost in the score. The Int buffered was 2546 and the float buffered was 2361. I was able to get the RAM to 215 FSB which gave me a result of 2988/2699, as you can see the scores are almost off the charts. I am really impressed with this RAM and if I were to lower the speed of the RAM I would be able to get the FSB even higher I’m sure.
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133FSB
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166FSB
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200FSb
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215FSB
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I also ran the CPU benchmark which will output the MIPS and MFLOPS for your CPU. Below is a screen shot from each FSB speed, even though some of the FSB are higher the scores are lower. This is because the total CPU speed is lower on some due to the fact that when overclocking a lot changes. If the total CPU speed and FSB were higher each time the score would increase each time.
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133FSB
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166FSB
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200FSb
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215FSB
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Sandra can also benchmark the multimedia ability of your system. This benchmark will output the Integer aEMMX/aSSE and Floating-Point results from your system. Again the same situation holds true where the results vary between the FSB because of the CPUs overall speed. There is a definite improvement though with each one from the stock 133FSB.
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133FSB
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166FSB
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200FSb
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215FSB
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