Corsair XMS Pro PC3200c2 2GB Review - Benchmarking Far Cry and SuperPi
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Benchmarks Continued
Far Cry is our second game test. In the demos I ran, the results were all very similar.
Far Cry | Generic | Corsair XMS Pro | % Change |
640x480 | 53.88 | 61.04 | 13.3% |
800x600 | 53.4 | 60.71 | 13.7% |
1024x768 | 51.7 | 59.53 | 15.1% |
1280x1024 | 43.65 | 58.17 | 33.3% |
When increasing the resolution with the cheap memory, the framerate drops steadily. With the Corsair, it doesn’t move very much at all. It looks like the Corsair modules removed any memory bottleneck this game had, and it gave Far Cry a real kick in some of the demos I tried. I this one, it was up to a 33% improvement. It's hard for me to believe how much faster it runs just by replacing one system component.
Our final test is SuperPi. All the tests so far relied heavily on the performance of our video card. This test removes that variable and mostly stresses our test bed’s CPU and memory. Keep in mind, these numbers are the number of seconds it takes to calculate pie to a specified number of digits. A lower score is faster, which is better.
SuperPi | Generic | Corsair XMS Pro | % Change |
1M | 46 | 39 | 17.9% |
2M | 105 | 91 | 15.4% |
4M | 227 | 198 | 14.6% |
8M | 496 | 432 | 14.8% |
16M | 1092 | 958 | 14.0% |
32M | 2360 | 2074 | 13.8% |
These are nice scores. The Corsair memory is fast, and looks like it speeds up general system performance 14-18% over Kingston's low-priced value modules. The Corsair memory is performing amazingly. With our benchmarking finished, we’re ready to take a look at how the memory stacks up for its price and our expectations.
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