Prelude to Benchmarks

The details of how the Super Talent T800UX2GC4 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 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 reference system processor: intel Pentium D 840 Clock Speed: 16 x 200 MHz = 3.2 GHz 16 x 241 MHz = 3.86 GHz Motherboards: MSI P4N Diamond (NF4 SLI Intel Ed) Videocard: MSI NX7800GTX-VT2D256E Memory: 2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-4200 2x 512MB Mushkin PC2-4200 2x 512MB Corsair Twin2X1024-8000UL 2x 1024MB Corsair Twin2X2048-6400 PRO Hard Drive: 74GB Western Digital Raptor WD740 CDROM: AOpen Combo 52x PowerSupply: PC Power & Cooling TurboCool 510 SLI Heatsink: Athlon64 4000+ Reference Heatsink Software Setup: Microsoft WindowsXP SP2 nVIDIA Forceware 7.40 nVIDIA Forceware 81.95 Benchmarks: Business Winstone 2004 SiSoft Sandra 2005 PCMark04 PCMark05 3DMark05 UT2003 UT2004 Doom 3 Battlefield 2

Winstone 2004	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.

Benchmarks:
Business Winstone 2004:	Points	Ranking
2x 512MB Mushkin PC2-4200 (200/533)	32.9
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-5300 (200/667)	32.7
2x 512MB Corsair PC2-8000UL (200/800)	33.4
2x 1024MB Corsair Twin2X2048-6400 PRO (200/800)	32.5
2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (200/800)	33.8
2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (241/964)	35.3

At stock speeds the low latencies help propel the Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (2x) 1GB memory modules into first place. This is pretty impressive considering the competition put forth by Crucial, Corsair and Mushkin DDR-2 modules. When overclocked to 964Mhz, nothing can keep up with this pair of Super Talent PC2-6400 memory.

SiSoft Sandra 2005	Source:Sandra

Sandra is designed to test the theoretical power of a complete system as well as the individual components. The results are also purely theoretical and may not represent real world performance.

Sisoft Sandra 2005 Benchmark Results
Memory	Integer SSE2:	Float SSE2:
2x 512MB Mushkin PC2-4200 (200/533)	4906	4903
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-5300 (200/667)	5041	5036
2x 512MB Corsair Twin2X1024-8000UL (200/800)	5083	5072
2x 1024MB Corsair Twin2X2048-6400 PRO (200/800)	5077	5076
2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (200/800)	5063	5066
2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (241/964)	5716	5710

SiSoft Sandra does not take latency settings into account, however the Super Talent memory performs as expected for DDR2-800 RAM.

Futuremark PCMark04	Source: FutureMark

PCMark04 is an application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including whole applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark04 to maintain a smaller installation size while still giving accurate results.

PCMark04:
Overall	Points	Ranking
2x 512MB Mushkin PC2-4200 (200/533)	6316
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-5300 (200/667)	6441
2x 512MB Corsair PC2-8000UL (200/800)	6526
2x 1024MB Corsair Twin2X2048-6400 PRO (200/800)	6611
2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (200/800)	6636
2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (241/964)	6986
Memory	Points	Ranking
2x 512MB Mushkin PC2-4200 (200/533)	5144
2x 512MB Crucial Ballistix PC2-5300 (200/667)	5209
2x 512MB Corsair PC2-8000UL (200/800)	5220
2x 1024MB Corsair Twin2X2048-6400 PRO (200/800)	5295
2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (200/800)	5352
2x 1024MB Super Talent T800UX2GC4 (241/964)	5703

The Super Talent T800UX2GC4 memory performs quite well in PCMark04. It is able to take first place overall at stock speeds, and overclocking provides for a nice performance boost.