PCMark05 is an application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including very large applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark05 to be a smaller installation as well as to report very accurate results. As far as possible, PCMark05 uses public domain applications whose source code can be freely examined by any user.

PCMark05 includes 4 categorized suites for benchmarking your computer. These include CPU, Graphics, Memory and a Hard Disk Drive benchmark. In our case, we selected to run only the Memory test suite.

Although the Apacer REAL500 memory runs at 500MHz, it could not outperform the Kingmax memory. We should point out that Kingmax memory operates with 2.5-3-3-7 timings, which is considered to be considerably slow, compared with the Corsair and Apacer memory, but in this case, timings cannot show the whole picture.