Corsair XMS 3000 DDR366 Memory

Test Bed

• EPoX 8K3A (KT333) mainboard

• AMD Thunderbird 1.0MHz (unlocked)

• Corsair XMS3000 512mb DDR RAM

• ASUS V8200 GeForce 3 VGA card

• Maxtor D740X-6L 40gb ATA-133 7200RPM HDD

• Generic 52x CD-ROM

• Kingwin KT436-WM case (side panel off, all internal fans off)

Corsair says the stick will do 166MHz at 2-2-2 1T, let see if it does.

What about this 185?

Before I go too far, some of you may be asking what is the benefit of having memory set at 2-2-2 or 2-3-3 or whatever is.  To try and put the performance differences in perspective we ran Sandra 2002 Pro and 3D Mark 2001 SE at 166MHz with the memory set at 2-2-2 1T, 2-3-3 1T, 2-3-3 2T, and 2.5-3-3 2T to show the impact of different memory settings on your systems performance.  For these tests, we clocked our 1.0GHz Thunderbird at 166MHz on the bus with a multiplier of 9 to give us a clock speed of just under 1.5GHz.

I think the 3D Mark program shows this the best.  With the only changes being made in the memory settings, we got a gain of almost 300 points.  Still no huge deal but every little bit helps especially when bragging rights are on the line.

 

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