OCZ VX Revisited: DDR Updates on DFI nForce4
by Wesley Fink on March 30, 2005 12:05 AM EST- Posted in
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Performance Comparisons
Performance of the OCZ EL PC4000 VX Gold, Corsair TwinX1024-4400C25, Crucial Ballistix PC3200, and OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev.2 were compared on the DFI nForce4 AMD Athlon 64 platform. While we did not test on an Intel platform, the performance results can also be generally compared to previous benchmark results on the Intel test beds. More results are available in recent DDR memory reviews at:OCZ VX Memory + DFI nForce4 = DDR533 at 2-2-2
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OCZ EL PC4000 VX Gold, Corsair TwinX1024-4400C25, Crucial Ballistix PC3200, and OCZ PC3200 Platinum Rev.2 were compared at 200x12 (2.4Ghz, DDR400), 218x11 (2.4Ghz, DDR436), 240x10 (2.4Ghz, DDR480), 267x9 (2.4Ghz, DDR533), and the Highest Memory Performance Settings that we could reach. With a constant CPU speed, memory comparisons (except for top performance) show the true impact of faster speed and slower memory timings on memory performance.
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Wesley Fink - Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - link
#9 - We reran everything in this review and took nothing for granted. Both results are the result of memtest86 on different BIOS, and a different pair of Platinum Rev. 3. I would guess the later BIOS is the difference. You can easily run the test yourself to check for best bandwidth, but 6 is the recomendation with this setup.#12 & #13 - You forgot that MSI won our nF3 Gold award and was our nF3 board of choice. The MSI also shared as the nF4 winner. With so many brands being pimped, it's hard to keep up :) We like the best performance - regardless of brand.
xsilver - Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - link
"anandtech is the biggest dfi propaganda site on the web"I noticed that too.... but is it possibly due to the fact that their nf4 board is so much better than everybody else's??
just like this memory is suprisingly better than the competition
I guess what they are saying may be you are crazy to buy anything else for the same price.... however not everybody can affor a dfi nf4, 6800ultra sli + 1gb ocz vx memory
arswihart - Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - link
i should say, before they were the biggest asus propaganda site, but tons of early problems with the sli have quieted them latelyarswihart - Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - link
anandtech is the biggest dfi propaganda site on the web, where's the attention to all the other nf4 boards?bigtoe36 - Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - link
#6 there is always value VX if you don't want the warranty to 250fsb etc, you pays your money you take your choice.PhoenixOrion - Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - link
what kind of cooling on the cpu for the test config?Viper4185 - Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - link
Nice follow up article but there has to be a mistake somewhere on this page...http://www.anandtech.com/memory/showdoc.aspx?i=238...
First you say this...
"In the SLI roundup, we found a tRAS of 7 to be ideal for memory based on Samsung TCCD chips."
Then...
Therefore, a tRAS setting of 6 was used for testing wherever possible.
I refer you to this article...
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...
It says 7 here??? So which is best 6 or 7?
Lonyo - Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - link
It would be nice to see some overall overclocking performances, using the FX-55 to see what the highest overclock you can gain is (obviously concentrating on the top memories).ie: If the VX was using with an overclocked FX55, how would it compare at max speed other RAM and the same CPU?
Zebo - Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - link
Getting late I stutterd while typing.Zebo - Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - link
Waste money on a hyped brand name? Or save $100 or Save $100 with "Twinmos speed premium"... Your choice and google is your friend:)