Test Setup
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| Test System | |
|---|---|
| Processor | AMD Athlon XP3000+ (Barton)512 kB L2-Cache |
| Motherboard | MSI K7N2nVIDIA nForce2 Chipsatz |
| RAM | 2x 256 MB PC3700 TwinMOS2x 512 MB PC3700 Buffalo Tech.2x 256 MB PC3500 Corsair CMX512-3500C2 |
| IDE Controller | i845E UltraDMA/100 controller (ICH4) |
| Display Adapter | NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4600,128 MB |
| Network Card | 3COM 905TX PCI 100 MBit |
| Operating System | Windows XP Pro 5.10.2600 Service Pack 1 |
| Benchmarks and Tests | |
| Quake III Arena | 640x480x16 |
| Unreal Tournament 2003 | 640x480x32 |
| Comanche 4 | 640x480x16 |
| 3Dmark 2003 | Default Settings |
| Lame 3.92 | MP3 Encoding174 MB WAV-File |
| Divx 5.04 / Xmpeg | MPEG-4 Encoding XMPEG 5.0 Beta Divx 5.04 |
| SYSmark 2002 | Internet Content Creation Office Productivity |
| Lightwave 7.5 | Skull Benchmark Scene |
| SPECviewperf 7.1 | All Benchmarks |
| File Compression | WinACE 2.11 |
| SiSoft Sandra 2003 Pro | Memory Bandwidth Benchmark |
| PC Mark 2002 | Memory Benchmark |
| Drivers and Settings | |
| Graphics Driver | NVIDIA reference driver 43.45 |
| Drivers | nVIDIA Unified Driver 2.03Audio driver 3.17 (WHQL)Audio utilities 3.17Network driver 3.13 (WHQL)GART driver 2.78 (WHQL)SMBus driver 2.75 (WHQL)Memory controller driver 2.75 (WHQL)IDE driver 2.70 In The Box (WHQL) |
| DirectX Version | 9.0a |
| Resolution | 1024x768, 16 bit, 85 Hz refresh |
The memory timings used are also important for this test :
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| Memory Clock | Timings |
|---|---|
| 266 MHz | T-RAS : 5T-RCD : 2T-RP : 2CAS Latency : 2.0 |
| 333 MHz | T-RAS : 5T-RCD : 2T-RP : 2CAS Latency : 2.0 (Buffalo Tech only 2.5) |
| 400 MHz | T-RAS : 6T-RCD : 3 (2 only possible with Corsair memory)T-RP : 3 (2 only possible with Corsair memory) CAS Latency : 2.0 (only possible with Corsair memory) |
| 444 MHz | T-RAS : 7At 444 MHz, the Corsair module can also handle an RAS timing of six clock cycles. In practice, this does not run stably and very little gain in performance can be expected, therefore we measured with seven clock cycles.T-RCD : 3T-RP : 3CAS Latency : 2.5 |
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