Article: Kingston® KVR533D2N4K2/1G Dual Channel Kit Value RAM (Affordable Overclocker's RAM?)
Many thanks to Kingston®, and Intel® for providing the processor.
V. Performance Testing
It's time to put the memory to the test*. Since it's targetted at a users wanting value for their money, I decided to focus on making the rig a well rounded one, capable of gaming rig with lots of storage options to boot. Aside from the one gigabyte of RAM on the test bench, I also decided to use a SATA RAID-0 set-up to simulate fast disk access subsystem. I will test it under a Dual Core system.
Intel® Pentium® D 950 (3.4GHz/2x2MB/800MHz)
- Processor: Intel® Pentium® D 3.4GHz
- Motherboard: Intel® D975XBX Rev302 BIOS 1304
- Memory: 2x512MB Kingston® DDR2-533(CL4-4-4-12)
- Hard Disk: 2x Seagate 120GB 7200rpm SATA RAID 0
- Video Card: Powercolor® X800GT
- Optical Drive: LG DVD Drive
- Floppy Drive: Generic
- Chassis: None
- Power Supply: HEC WinPower 550w 24pin SLI-Ready
- Operating System: Windows XP SP2
Doom3
::Subsystem Test::
PCMark02
PCMark04
PCMark05
Sandra-CPU
Sandra-Multimedia
Sandra-RAM Bandwidth
::3D Test::
3DMark01SE
3DMark03
::Media Rendering::
Cinebench 9.5 (Click to see full image)
The memory performs a little below within my expectations. The 3DMark01SE results is average, competitive with other boards performance using similar discrete video cards. PCMark results shows what is to be expected from the system, and has been consistent with what I've seen with similar specifications. Sandra-RAM bandwidth shows decent results, a little on the low, but acceptable!
While the CPU isn't the one in question here, I tested them under Sandra and see if there's any significant impact. The test shows acceptable results for both Processor Arithmetic, Multimedia, and even good Cinebench 9.5 Render but a little lower than comparable memory with similar speed, capacity, and timing (Micron with D9 chips). In the future, I'll try a head-to-head comparison of these memory modules. While the bandwidth is not that great, it's pretty decent.
*: In the tests, I am not be able to provide links to submissions due to the fact that I only use the shareware version. For example, Futuremark's PCMark04 only allows one active publication of score, though users can have as much as five(5) entries, but only one can be made public. And in the future reviews and article, providing a link will make older link obsolete. To circumvent this, I will just use screenshots of the results
