Quick Performance Tests
Here is our test setup for the following benchmarks:
Hard Drive Test System Setup |
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CPU |
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 @ 3.0 GHz
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Motherboard |
Asus P5E3 Deluxe X38
(DDR3)
Gigabyte X38-DQ6 (DDR2) Gigabyte P35-DQ6 (DDR2) Asus Blitz Formula (P35 DDR2) |
Memory |
Corsair CM2X2048-9136C5D
Corsair CM3X2048-1800C7D |
Hard Drive |
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Sound Card |
SB Audigy 2 Value
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Video Card |
ATI Radeon X1900 XTX
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Video Drivers |
Catalyst 7.9 |
Power Supply | Silverstone Zeus 750 watt
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DirectX Version |
DX10 |
Operating System |
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
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The application results from POV-Ray and CineBench show little difference in how those memory results add up to actually results.
DDR3 memory CAN and WILL offer better performance than DDR2 when we hit higher frequencies. My recent article that looked at a pair of overclocked DDR3 memory kits shows that DDR3 when it runs at 1800 MHz and higher can get us SiSoft scores of 8200+ MB/s!