Athlon 64 Memory: Rewriting the Rules
by Wesley Fink on October 1, 2004 12:45 AM EST- Posted in
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Test Results: PQI 3200 Turbo
To be considered stable for test purposes, Quake3 benchmark, UT2003 Demo, Super PI, Aquamark 3, and RTCW had to complete without incident. Any of these, and in particular Super PI and Return to Castle Wolfenstein, will crash a less-than stable memory configuration.| PQI 3200 Turbo - 2 x 512Mb 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 | 400 DDR | 2-2-2-10 2.6V 1T |
512.9 | INT 2605 FLT 2796 |
INT 6091 FLT 6039 |
81 | 110.4 |
| 11x218 | 438 DDR | 2-3-2-10 2.7V 1T |
512.1 | INT 2725 FLT 2906 |
INT 6446 FLT 6368 |
81 | 110.1 |
| 10x240 | 480 DDR | 3-3-3-10 2.7V 1T |
513.0 | INT 2849 FLT 2977 |
INT 6627 FLT 6545 |
80 | 110.6 |
| 9x267 | 533 DDR | 3-4-3-10 2.75V 1T |
517.2 | INT 2930 FLT 3159 |
INT 6910 FLT 6821 |
80 | 111.5 |
| 8x298(2.38GHz) | Highest Mem Speed 596 DDR |
3-4-3-10 2.8V 2T |
514.7 | INT 2916 FLT 3099 |
INT 6765 FLT 6685 |
80 | 110.7 |
| 9x285(2.57GHz) | HIGHEST Performance 570 DDR |
3-4-3-10 2.75V 1T |
551.4 | INT 3172 FLT 3413 |
INT 7402 FLT 7282 |
74 | 119.1 |
The PQI 3200 Turbo is another memory based on the latest Samsung TCCD chips. The latest TCCD chips appear to perform much better on Athlon 64 than the first TCCD samples tested in =F-A-S-T= DDR Memory: 2-2-2 Roars on the Scene.
PQI reaches DDR596 at the highest memory speed, very close to DDR600. Highest Performance was achieved at a Command Rate of 1T at DDR570.
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Zebo - Friday, October 1, 2004 - link
http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=328636mkruer - Friday, October 1, 2004 - link
If you get the chance, can you please test with 2GB of PC3200? I’m sure most would love to see what type of performance hit there will be with the larger modules vs. the smaller ones. Looking at the benches so far, it looks like even buying the cheap 1GB PC3200 modules will have negligible impact on the performance as long as the times are kept relatively low (under 3cls.) And one more big IF you could test 4x512 PC3200 with lower clock timings (2-2-2-5) vs 2x1024 PC 3200 with timings of (3-3-3-8) I’m sure that for the average user they would rather blow $400 for 2GB of slow memory then $400 for 1GB of fast memory.Zebo - Friday, October 1, 2004 - link
spensive!:(p/p is horrendous for this stuff. It's too bad you don't include micron/crucial 8t in there which can also clock to 260 for half the price.
Kishkumen - Friday, October 1, 2004 - link
I've loved all of these recent memory articles. For a while now, the current state of memory in general has been the fuzziest for me. Now I'm starting to get a clearer picture of where things are at and which direction to go. I'm still nursing along my old P4 Northwood, but the A64 plunge is imminent. Nice to see that memory development is keeping up at a strong pace what with 600 MHz speeds now a strong reality.RaistlinZ - Friday, October 1, 2004 - link
Thank you for the great article! From your tests it looks like the OCZ 3200 Rev.2 is the best of the best. It performed near the top in every test and edged out the Crucial Ballistix at the highest speeds.I guess my choice for a memory upgrade is clear now. :)
klah - Friday, October 1, 2004 - link
Seems you cut something off at the end of page 9"We have asked AMD to provide some insight into why we are "...
skiboysteve - Friday, October 1, 2004 - link
excellent article, ill keep this in mind when I upgrade... im still pluggin on a TbredB @ 2.2 w/ a modded 9500nonpro