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Test
Setup: MSI K7N2G-ILSR mForce2 motherboard
MSI K7N2 Delta-ILSR
nForce2 Ultra 400 motherboard.
512 MB (2x256MB) Corsair TwinX 3200
AMD Athlon
3200+ (Barton) Stock speeds
Connect3D Radeon 9800 Pro + Catalyst 3.6 (6.14.10.6368
)
Windows XP Pro + SP1 SiSoft
Sandra 2003 Although
synthetic in nature SiSoft's Sandra offers a valuable insight towards overall
performance levels. We're using the latest version of Sandra (2003.7.9.73) known
as MAX3. Memory
Bandwidth Performance 
Although
the chart here has rather exaggerated the difference it should be noted that the
two sets of results are pretty much within a margin for error. This is the kind
of memory bandwidth we could have only dreamed about for the AMD platform prior
to the advent of dual channel memory and AMD processors running off a 200 MHz
front side bus. Cache and Memory Subsystem
Performance 
Likewise
the memory and cache subsystem results which scale nicely with previous CPUs.
When combined with a suitably powerful processor the nForce2 Ultra chipset a very
capable power gaming platform and it's good to see memory performance scale alongside
the other important parameters. | 
