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the meat. Just how fast is this stuff? What impact will it have on
system performance? We will answer those questions in a minute, but
first lets take a look at the system that is being used for testing.
Abit
IC7-G Max II Advance
Intel Pentium 4 2.4”c”
Asus V9280S/TVD Ti4200
2 Western Digital Raptors in RAID0
Twinx1024-4000
Windows XP Professional (all current updates)
This system utilizes water cooling to enable maximum overclocking.
The benchmarks performed were SiSoft
SANDRA Memory Bandwidth and CPU Arithmetic, PCMark 2002, AIDA32,
and 3dMark2001 SE Build 330 for overall system performance. All
tests were run at several different speeds with the CPU:RAM ratio
set at 1:1 and the RAM timings set at 3-4-4-8.
So
how far could we push the Corsair Twinx1024-4000? How about to 269mhz
FSB which is equivalent to DDR538 or PC 4300. This is in Dual Channel
mode with 2.8v running through the RAM. Let’s take a look
at what that means for performance. For comparison we will show
some scores from the same motherboard with a P4 2.8ghz CPU and 1gb
of Corsair XMS3500C2 at stock speeds.
Here is what
we started with....
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