Geil Ultra X PC3200 BH5 - Testing and Overclocking
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Testbed:
- AMD Athlon 64 Venice, 9x multiplier
- ASUS A8N SLI (modded 3.3v rail)
- Albatron PCX5750 @ default clock speeds
- OCZ Powerstream 470W
Results
Once the memory and the processor is overclocked, there is a significant increase in overall computer performance. This is further reinforced by an increase in benchmark results. To test the system, I ran the following benchmarks 3dmark 2001, Super PI, and Sandra Memory Bandwidth benchmark at the several HTT speeds.
You can see that as the clock speed of the memory increase the performance increases nearly the same amount. Even when switching to 2T interleave the memory performs better in 3dmark. Memory bandwidth takes a considerable performance hit, as with 1T they should be getting nearly 500 extra points. Since the memory can still run faster, bandwidth increases beyond what I could run 1T on my motherboard.
In SPI, one of my favorite benchmarks, the GeIL Ultra X provides a considerable decrease in time to calculate PI to 1 Million integers. This benchmark is more CPU intensive than it is memory, but it does show an increase in speed as the memory is increased.
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