High Performance Results (Cont.)

Indeed I could keep you all from also providing you the Everest benchmark results of the Crucial Ballistix at 250MHz clock speed. So again one the system was rebooted with our Intel P4 at 3.75GHz I fired up Everest Ultimate Edition software suite from Lavalys and started to compile the outcome of the test runs. So let's dig into the findings of the DDR500 performance.

And to set the records straight the memory ran at 250MHz (500MHz DDR) HTT and with default memory timings selected by the SPD or the Crucial memory. The timings are reported as 2.5-4-4-8 which is quite common for PC-4000 ram modules.

Memory Read Results

So what does it say at 250MHz HTT for Everest, well we actually put down one hell of a score, namely 6237MB/s. Who will do better? I was amazed at how well these performed and Everest Ultimate Edition just confirmed my impressions. Fast as hell and topping of a top score on performance.

Memory Write Results

Once again I am impressed; the Crucial Ballistix memory puts down a score of 2257MB/s. If we compare those with the latest enhanced performance results we notice a boost of about 200MB/s on the Memory Write benchmark. Can it get any better? Well I certainly am quite fond of these Ballistix DDR500 sticks!

Memory Latency Results

And last but not least the Memory Latency results, which show again a nice decrease to about 93.0ns. I am somehow not really sure how to interpret these as for my understanding those seem high but I might be wrong. Although these Crucial memory modules do have very stable operation so we might just leave the latency results for what they are.

After having overclocked our Intel P4 processor to meet the 250MHz required bus speed to fully utilize the potential of the Crucial Ballistix dual channel memory kit I am very pleased to have these sticks in my hands. They perform better then I ever expected from DDR500 memory and even at DDR400 settings they deliver excellent performance, just awesome!