Initial Feedback & Performance (Cont.)

Now we will grab some sample information from Everest Ultimate Edition and get some feedback on the ram's performance. Lavalys was nice enough to allow us to evaluate their software for this review. I really like the wealth of information this utility gives us and we thank Lavalys for there support.

Again we are using a totally default configuration for the out of the box experience. No tweaking or overclocking will be done for these tests; we want to know what's up with these modules at bone stock! After we tested with RMMA, we rebooted the system to refresh the resources and just because we wanted too, so that we can get the optimum performance without tweaking the system. So let's check it out...

Memory Read Results

The Crucial Ballistix DDR500 2x 512MB dual channel memory pulls of some great scores indeed. Our test consisted of firing up the system and with having everything on default with stock timings and voltages. Meaning that we are set at 200MHz HTT and memory timings set to 2.5-3-3-8 as detected by the SPD. The Ballistix ram kicked off a 4915MB/s score on a synthetic measurement. This makes this ram a decent 1GB kit we have stuffed in this P4P800 Deluxe configuration.

Memory Write Results

The Write results are a little different, here we see 1806MB/s of throughput, but this is still some nice score of the Crucial ram. These scores might seem a bit lower then you are used to see but that is normal as this memory is rated at DDR500 with 2.5-3-3-8 timings and we are running these at DDR400 speeds. Of course we will check the same with more adapted memory latencies.

Memory Latency Results

The latency results are a bit of scale but that is to be expected with the 2.5-3-3-8 configuration. So a bit disappointing score of only 116.9ns, again linked somehow to the rated speed and the non adapted memory timings used. We should see some better results once these have been reset to DDR400 appropriate values.

All in all the Crucial Ballistix does perform quite well considering that they are set at timings that are not really appropriate for a 200MHz (400MHz DDR) operation speed. However we will check how these will perform when we actually set the best memory timings for delivering world class DDR400 performance.