Crucial Ballistix DDR2 Memory - Testing
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I'm going to steer away from my traditional benchmarking tests for this review. I am instead going to focus more on any performance changes with SLI EPP enabled and with it disabled. We should see a noticeable difference in the benchmarks for these settings.
The standard setting should be around the performance of your typical off-the-shelf RAM. When we enable SLI, we should see a noticeable difference. We're jacking the voltage up, increasing the speed, and tightening the timings. Before I begin, I'll list the hardware used during testing.
Intel Pentium E2140
2 GB Crucial Ballistix
EVGA 680i LT SLI
BFG 8800 GT OC
OCZ GameXtreme 700 Watt
The stock timing and speed are 5-5-5-12 at 400 MHz. This is pretty typical for a majority of the cheaper RAM. When the memory is set to the max SLI speed, the memory runs at 4-4-4-12 at 400 MHz. There is an EPP setting for 500 MHz along with this, though I wasn't able to enable it. If you have your FSB overclocked at all, enabling SLI configuration automatically drops the FSB back to stock speeds.
Everest
This suite of programs contains three memory benchmarks and I utilized all of them for this review. These benchmarks show us the memory read, write, and latency of each test speed.
Here we see SLI enabled setting showing slight performance gains. These slight gains won't be noticed and won't show any kind of gains in applications. Overclocking your RAM would be a better option if you want to get a noticeable gain.
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