Normally I leave overclocking until the last page however I had to put it first with this review. The reason is because I was unable to overclock this memory at all. Not only was I not able to overclock the memory at all but I wasn’t even able to get it to the stock speed. With this particular test bed it was either because of the motherboard, the RAM, or the combination of the two. I have a feeling that a big part of it has to do with the RAM though because even with other RAM I have been able to go much higher.
Benchmarking
For all of the benchmarks I tested at DDR356 which was the highest I was able to do as seen above. All of the memory settings were set to the manufacturers specifications because if I went any higher I would get errors. I used the following benchmarks: SiSoft Sandra 2004 professional, AIDA32, PCMark04, and Quake 3.
Test Bed:
- Albatron KM18G Pro
- AMD Athlon 1700+ Thoroughbred
- 30GB Seagate Barracuda IV HDD
- PMI 512MC PC3200
- Onboard video with 128MB shared
- Blue Meany
- Plextor PlexWriter 40/12/40A
- SilenX 400w PSU
- Thermalright SLK-800
SiSoft Sandra 2004 professional has many different informational modules and benchmarking tools however I only used the memory benchmark module. The results were not very impressive however with the speed the RAM is set at is about where it should be at. As compared to the other RAM you can see that it is somewhat low.
AIDA32 is system information and benchmarking tool that does quite a lot, unfortunately it is no longer in production but stil up to date. One part of the program will benchmark your memory’s read and write performance. The scores are outputted as the number of MB per second and as you can see the read score is about the same to as float buffered in SiSoft. The scores could be much higher and are with better RAM so I would have to say that this RAM is a little lacking.
