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128 MB Mushkin High
Performance Revision 3 222 Ram Review - SiSoft Sandra & Quake 3 Performance
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Benchmarks Continued |
Let's put all the ALU numbers into perspective ...
The performance improvement between the Micron stick and the
Mushkin stick is barely detectable at the Cas 3 settings on both fsb speeds tested.
However, the performance improvement at Cas 2 is easily visible.
In fact, the performance increase attained by a simple bios tweak
when comparing the Mushkin at Cas 3 versus Cas 2 is just over 17.5% at
both front
side bus speeds. When the Mushkin memory is at Cas 2, compared to my older Micron stick, the performance increase was
almost 20% at 133 MHz.
And now for the FPU performance...
Once again, we see the slim advantage the Mushkin RAM at Cas 3
has over my old stick at like settings. The performance gain attained by the use of the Cas 2 setting is,
once again, quite a jump.
The performance increase in the FPU is slightly higher than the
ALU scores, as the performance increase hovers around
17.5%.
The Quake 3 Arena fastest setting runs the game at a horrid
520x480 resolution with the lowest graphic settings available, but it's great
to test the improvement the Mushkin RAM is capable of. With such horrendous
settings, we barely scratch the graphic capabilities of the
GeForce2 GTS. Therefore, the limiting factor in the performance is
the speed at which the CPU can dish out all the commands. With all commands
flowing through the system's memory, the speed of the memory becomes a determining factor in
overall performance.
Note: Upgrading Quake to the 1.27 version made it impossible to
run timedemo benchmarks. Luckily there's a converter
that will allow the good old demo001 benchmark to run in the latest version of
Quake 3. These results are from the 1.27h modified version, so they cannot be
compared with the results of previous iterations of Quake 3.
The memory is quite a factor in this CPU intensive benchmark, as
the memory tests at Cas 2 resulted in a 6% increase across the board when
compared to my generic RAM stick at Cas3.
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