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SiSoft's SANDRA is a thourough systemwide benchmarking
tool. I ran the memory bandwidth test at each performance
interval, here are the results
Here the TwinMOS at optimal timing
And here is one stick of XtremeDDR
Adding a second stick brought our score down a tad...
even below TwinMOS
With improved timings, things again
look better for the XtremeDDR, as the TwinMOS will
not have any timing increase
Here's what the single stick of XtremeDDR looks like
@ 4-2-2 CAS 2
And again, adding the second stick
To finish up the SANDRA tests, I pulled
all of the stops and reached 180MHZ again from the
XtremeDDR. Have a look
TwinMOS capped off at 2577 for the top score\
The XtremeDDR pulls way ahead here, and we still have
another stick to add
After adding the second stick, another gain..
Here's the SANDRA graph to put it
back into perspective. Adding the second stick really
opens up that bandwidth, if you have a DualDDR able
board, I highly reccomend utilizing it
The other synthetic benchmark I chose to run is Futuremark's
PCMark2002. This program runs your PC through a series
of functions, and like it's brother 3DMark, tallies
up performance and offers a final score.
I'll save the screenshots and just
give you the graph this time
The results reflected here are from the "Memory
Score", all of the other tests (HDD and CPU remained
fairly constant during testing with only slight variation)
Now on to the real-world results (what
REALLY matters... Benchmarks are nice, but I want
to see improvement in my games...
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