Installation, Testing and Comparison
Basic Test Setup:
the ram I used for comparison is:
Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500 5-5-5-15 2x1Gb
OCZ SLI PC2-6400 4-4-4-15 2x1Gb
OCZ Reaper PC2-8500 5-5-5-15 2x1Gb
GSkill PC2-6400 5-5-5-15 2x1GB
All the testing coming up was run three times each and averaged out to get the results shown in the graphs.
First test would be 3dMark06 , I don’t think any introduction is needed, everyone knows what this program is and does, 3dMark06 was run both SLI Enabled and Not Enabled.
The Super Talent ram performs very well, with only the OCZ SLI outperforming it really with it’s lower latencies.
The next test would be SuperPi Mod 1.5, the time to calculate to 1 million
The higher latencies of the Super Talent seem to work against it here, but it does beat out the GSkill running at the same latencies and speed.
The next test up is video encoding or recoding as the case may be, using TMPGEnc to to see how long it takes to encode or re-encode a video file. The file is an AVI file that is being converted to MPG. It is 3 minutes and 48 seconds long, with 5720 frames and is 70.5 MB in size. Of course here again the lower the score the better.
1 minute and 17 seconds to complete the re-encoding process not bad..
Next up we have Cinebench 10 .
How Does MAXON CINEBENCH Work?
The test procedure consists of two main components: The first test sequence is dedicated to the computer’s main processor. A 3D scene file is used to render a photo-reaslistic image. The scene makes use of various CPU-intensive features such as reflection, ambient occlusion, area lights and procedural shaders. In the first run, the benchmark only uses one CPU (or CPU core), to ascertain a reference value.
The second test measures graphics card performance and is run inside the 3D editor window. The project file used can test all graphics cards that support the OpenGL standard. This scene places medium to low demands on graphics cards and tests the maximum speed with which the scene can be properly displayed.
For some reason the Super Talent came in last on the OpenGL testing, yes I ran it three times as well and still came out with the same results… odd