Updated Benchmarks - Corsair, Gigaram, OCZ
With the update of the Memory Test Bench to the NVIDIA 7800 GTX and newer platform/video drivers, results from our previous benchmarks of 2GB kits in 1GB DIMMs: FAST 2GB DDR Kits from Corsair, Gigaram, and OCZ were not directly comparable. All benchmarks were rerun on these three memories so results could be directly compared to the six new 2GB kits.
Corsair TWINX2048-3500LLPRO (DDR433)
Gigaram 2GB Dual Channel PC-4200 (DDR533)
OCZ PC4000 2x1024MB EB Platinum (DDR500)
With the update of the Memory Test Bench to the NVIDIA 7800 GTX and newer platform/video drivers, results from our previous benchmarks of 2GB kits in 1GB DIMMs: FAST 2GB DDR Kits from Corsair, Gigaram, and OCZ were not directly comparable. All benchmarks were rerun on these three memories so results could be directly compared to the six new 2GB kits.
Corsair TWINX2048-3500LLPRO (DDR433)
Corsair TWINX2048-3500LLPRO (DDR433) - 2x1GB Double-Bank | |||||||
CPU Ratio at 2.4GHz | Memory Speed |
Memory Timings & Voltage |
Quake3 fps |
Sandra UNBuffered | Sandra Standard Buffered |
Super PI 2M places (time in sec) |
Wolfenstein - Radar - Enemy Territory fps |
12x200 | 400DDR | 2-3-2-7 2.5V 1T |
536.3 | INT 2540 FLT 2687 |
INT 6103 FLT 6036 |
82 | 117.8 |
11x218 | 436DDR | 2-3-2-7 2.6V 1T |
545.1 | INT 2704 FLT 2861 |
INT 6433 FLT 6363 |
82 | 118.5 |
10x240 | 480DDR | 2.5-3-2-7 2.7V 1T |
551.7 | INT 2862 FLT 3007 |
INT 6698 FLT 6614 |
81 | 119.5 |
10x246 (2.46GHz) |
Highest Mem Speed DDR 492 |
2.5-3-2-7 2.7V 1T |
563.8 | INT 2928 FLT 3110 |
INT 6832 FLT 6813 |
80 | 122.6 |
Gigaram 2GB Dual Channel PC-4200 (DDR533)
Gigaram 2GB Dual Channel PC-4200 (DDR533) - 2x512Mb Double-Bank | |||||||
CPU Ratio at 2.4GHz | Memory Speed |
Memory Timings & Voltage |
Quake3 fps |
Sandra UNBuffered | Sandra Standard Buffered |
Super PI 2M places (time in sec) |
Wolfenstein - Radar - Enemy Territory fps |
12x200 | 400DDR | 2-3-2-7 2.5V 1T |
537.9 | INT 2536 FLT 2687 |
INT 6072 FLT 6028 |
82 | 117.4 |
11x218 | 436DDR | 2.5-3-2-7 2.7V 1T |
544.3 | INT 2685 FLT 2822 |
INT 6424 FLT 6362 |
82 | 118.4 |
10x240 | 480DDR | 2.5-3-2-7 2.8V 1T |
550.7 | INT 2796 FLT 2895 |
INT 6703 FLT 6628 |
81 | 119.8 |
9x267 | 533DDR | 3-3-3-7 2.9VV 1T |
549.8 | INT 3012 FLT 3237 |
INT 6964 FLT 6890 |
80 | 120.5 |
9x278 (2.45GHz) |
Highest Mem Speed DDR 556 |
3-4-3-7 3.0V 1T |
562.3 | INT 3154 FLT 3346 |
INT 7216 FLT 7163 |
77 | 121.9 |
OCZ PC4000 2x1024MB EB Platinum (DDR500)
OCZ PC4000 2x1024MB EB Platinum (DDR500) - 2x512Mb Double-Bank | |||||||
CPU Ratio at 2.4GHz | Memory Speed |
Memory Timings & Voltage |
Quake3 fps |
Sandra UNBuffered | Sandra Standard Buffered |
Super PI 2M places (time in sec) |
Wolfenstein - Radar - Enemy Territory fps |
12x200 | 400DDR | 2-3-2-7 2.5V 1T |
536.6 | INT 2643 FLT 2698 |
INT 6089 FLT 6020 |
82 | 117.5 |
11x218 | 436DDR | 2-3-2-7 2.7V 1T |
545.8 | INT 2709 FLT 2846 |
INT 6409 FLT 6389 |
82 | 118.5 |
10x240 | 480DDR | 2.5-3-2-7 2.6V 1T |
553.6 | INT 2848 FLT 2967 |
INT 6705 FLT 6631 |
81 | 120.0 |
9x267 | 533DDR | 2.5-3-2-7 2.7V 1T |
553.4 | INT 3075 FLT 3150 |
INT 6985 FLT 6900 |
80 | 121.0 |
9x275 (2.48GHz) |
Highest Mem Speed DDR 550 |
3-3-2-7 2.7V 1T |
574.2 | INT 3207 FLT 3362 |
INT 7199 FLT 7043 |
76 | 124.5 |
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Beenthere - Monday, January 23, 2006 - link
Crucial use to be a pretty good memory supplier at one time and I've bought plenty of their products. There seems to have been a philosophical change at Crucial a number of years ago and I stopped buying and recommending their products after a major hassle over one failed DIMM out of the many we had purchased. Seems like their submission of a discontinued product to this 1 Gb review is another example of mis-management and manipulation of the media...In regards to 1 Gig. DIMMS vs. 512 Mb it seems to me relatively few people really need these DIMMS. If you are a serious gamer playing the latest game versions, sure you'll see some small performance improvement for a PRICE. And that is the point really - what do you get in tangible system performance gain and is it of enough emotional value to you to pay the premium price. Obviously for some it is as they will pay $1000 for a CPU, $700 x 2 for 7800 GTX 512 Vid cards, etc. I doubt however that most PC enthusiasts can really justify those prices nor the price premium for 1 Gb DIMMS based on system performance gains.
And along those lines... how often do PC enthusiasts and / or gamers replace their entire PC hardware??? If for instance you are building a new PC now because the Opti 165 / X2 3800+ are a sweet deal, would you really be in the market for a new AMD AM2 system in a 4-6 months when they are readily available??? I doubt many folks replace their hardware that often but I could be wrong. If it is true then I wonder where all the good hardware ends up after it's used for a couple months and then trashed for the latest trick-of-the-week hardware???
xsilver - Monday, January 23, 2006 - link
its called ebay - or as some say "egay" :por I think option 2 is the not so rich friends who suck up a lot
option 3 is "damn, I overvolted the cpu to attain max overclock and the damn thing fried itself -- oh well, just buy another fx-60"
note that option 3 people probably fuel the reason for why manufacturers think they can charge us $500+ for a gfx card and $1000+ for a cpu
JarredWalton - Monday, January 23, 2006 - link
Worth note - and not shown in the benches here - is that 2GB of RAM can have a massive impact on load times for some of the latest games. It is also incredibly useful when you're editing a bunch of images in Photoshop. The difference in level load times on BF2 is amazing, even when comparing 4x512MB 2T to 2x512MB 1T.BF2 is something of an exception right now, but over the next year I expect more and more games to push the memory requirements beyond 1GB. FEAR is another reasonable example, though not quite as pronounced as BF2. Some of the MMORPGs also get a lot of use from 2GB.
Personally, I won't be buying 512MB DIMMs anymore, but I still use them in systems I build for other people.
johnford64 - Monday, January 23, 2006 - link
Why is the OCZ PC4000 XTC and Normal Gold not covered in either article??? The Platnium EB's are too much money, and i would like a good read and comparison on the XTC/Golds. As a side note, Crucial stopped making their 2GB DDR1 kit, so they couldnt replace my dead det, which is why i got the OCZ'sbigtoe36 - Monday, January 23, 2006 - link
XTC and golds do feature the same IC, OCZ are moving to replace all old heatspreaders with XTC so you will see some older stock using the old spreader in stores.So apples to apples they should clock near the same but the XTC moduls running a little cooler.
johnford64 - Friday, January 27, 2006 - link
But my question is why neither XTC or Gold kits have been reviewed here, if there have please let me know whereMiggle - Monday, January 23, 2006 - link
not much difference (in RTCW at least) between 400mhz and 533 (must be the timings). Good review tho.Now, i'm looking for a link that shows how mem timings impact A64 (2-2-2-6 vs 2.5-3-3-7). Hope someone could give me one.
still, me thinks that fast mem = costs too much and not that worth-it. I just bought geil value ram that does 2.5-3-3-6 @ 200mhz and quite happy /w it (on AXP still tho).
android1st - Monday, January 23, 2006 - link
I was just trying to decide about my next system whether I should wait for DDR2 or increase the memory on my old system. I think I'm going to wait for DDR2, hopefully AMD will roll out 65nm around the same time as the new socket. And prices will be reasonable and availability will be high. Guess we'll wait and see...Nocturnal - Monday, January 23, 2006 - link
Crucial recently pulled their Ballistix 2GB kits due to unforseen circumstances. Everyone at XS is speculating that all of the RMAs that have been going on is culprit.johnford64 - Friday, January 27, 2006 - link
That happened to me, 2 dead kits. They tried to offer me 2GB of PC3200. Like hell i am taking $150 ram in place of my $400 USD ram.