Prelude to Benchmarks

The details of how the Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D memory test system was configured for benchmarking, including the specific hardware, software drivers, operating system and benchmark versions are indicated below. In the second column are the general specs for the reference platforms this pair of PC2-9136 DDR-2 memory is to be compared against. Please take a moment to look over PCSTATS test system configurations before moving on to the individual benchmark results.

PCSTATS Test System Configurations

test system processor: intel core 2 duo e6600 clock speed: 9 x 266 mhz = 2.4 ghz motherboards: ecs pn2 sli2+ (nf 680i) videocard: msi NX7800GTX-VT2D256E Memory: 2GB Kit Patriot PDC22G8000+XBLK 2GB Kit Corsair Twin2X1024-6400C4 2GB Kit OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum XTC SLI Ready 2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D Hard Drive: 74GB Western Digital Raptor WD740 CDROM: AOpen Combo 52x PowerSupply: PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 510 SLI Heatsink: Intel Reference Software Setup: Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 nVIDIA Forceware NF4 9.34 nVIDIA Forceware 91.27 Benchmarks: Business Winstone 2004 Content Creation 2004 SiSoft Sandra 2005 PCMark05 3DMark05 Doom 3 Quake 4

Office Productivity	Source: Zdnet

Business Winstone 2004 runs real applications through a series of scripted activities and uses the time a PC takes to complete these activities to produce its performance scores.

Content Creation Winstone 2004 is a system-level, application-based benchmark that measures a PC's overall performance when running top, Windows-based, 32-bit, content creation applications in Windows XP.

Office Productivity Business Winstone 2004: Points Ranking 2GB Kit Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800) 30.2 2GB Kit Corsair Twin2X1024-6400C4 (200/800) 30.3 2GB Kit OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800) 30.1 2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D (200/800) 30.1 2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D (200/1240) 31.8 Content Creation 2004: Points Ranking 2GB Kit Patriot PDC22G800+XBLK (200/800) 41.5 2GB Kit Corsair Twin2X1024-6400C4 (200/800) 41.6 2GB Kit OCZ PC2-7200 Platinum SLI (200/800) 41.8 2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D (200/800) 41.8 2GB Kit Corsair DOMINATOR Twin2X2048-9136C5D (200/1240) 42.7

At stock speeds all DDR2 memory tested performs the same. As it should, after all since all memory is the same size and use the same memory timings. Overclocking does give the system a slight boost in speed when handling office oriented tasks.