OCZ PC2-5400 Platinum XTC 2x512MB

Review Pages

1. Introduction
2. Test System - Configuration
3. SiSoftware Sandra 2005
4. PCMark05
5. Performance Test v5.0
6. Half Life 2
7. Conclusion

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.

PCMark05 Memory Test	SPD	667	800	870
Memory Read 16MB (MB/s)	7358.776	7500.262	7894.195	8519.528
Memory Read 8MB (MB/s)	7649.392	7927.326	8199.440	8937.835
Memory Read 192KB (MB/s)	28940.496	29564.777	29406.506	32044.211
Memory Read 4KB (MB/s)	49192.688	49354.047	49284.203	53624.445
Memory Write 16MB (MB/s)	5307.604	5344.736	5373.209	5807.667
Memory Write 8MB (MB/s)	5311.978	5351.058	5360.984	5832.374
Memory Write 192KB (MB/s)	12588.395	12599.184	12610.131	13656.597
Memory Write 4KB (MB/s)	12615.983	12625.090	12619.238	13762.777
Memory Copy 16MB (MB/s)	5360.463	5366.804	5757.735	6229.953
Memory Copy 8MB (MB/s)	5015.526	5482.573	5469.230	5928.533
Memory Copy 192KB (MB/s)	10181.093	10432.290	10424.120	11342.111
Memory Copy 4KB (MB/s)	12638.539	12622.229	12600.479	13707.834
Memory Latency 16MB (MAccesses/s)	10.030	10.635	10.996	11840
Memory Latency 8MB (MAccesses/s)	10.462	11.012	11.380	12530
Memory Latency 192KB (MAccesses/s)	147.752	159.409	159.405	173320
Memory Latency 4KB (MAccesses/s)	934.302	934.301	934.312	1015923

Better overall performance with lower timings, although not too great. The scene changes and the PCMarks are even higher with the overclocked settings of 870/4-4-4-15.