Initial Performance Results (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. On top of that it will allow us to show you some extra performance figures to give you a second opinion about the raw power of the Crucial 10th Anniversary memory series.

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 10th Anniversary 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 667MHz speed and memory timings set to 5-5-5-15 as initialized by the SPD. The 10th Anniversary ram kicked off a 9742MB/s score on a synthetic measurement. This makes this ram an outstanding 2GB kit we have stuffed in our ASUS P5W DH Deluxe configuration.

Memory Write Results

The Write results are a little different, here we see 4803MB/s of throughput, but this is still some nice score of the Crucial ram. These scores might seem a bit lower then what we just saw with the read results but you also need to take into account that the memory timings are not set as advertised for the 10th Anniversary sticks. Of course we will check the same with more adapted memory latencies.

Memory Copy Results

Coming next with the benchmark suite are the Memory Copy results, also here the Crucial 10th Anniversary Edition modules prove that they are of high performance with a score of 4813MB/s. This should certainly improve when applying better memory timings. But all in all not a bad result at all, and certainly not when comparing to other systems. The 10th Anniversary from Crucial does quite well, and certainly proves they are up for the battle.

Memory Latency Results

The latency results are a bit of scale but that is to be expected with the 5-5-5-15 configuration. So a bit disappointing score of only 76.8ns 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 DDR2-667 appropriate values. Although we can already state that the DDR2 memory does a better job than the older DDR version. So by all means, the DDR2 modules are the way to go!

All in all the Crucial 10th Anniversary Edition does perform quite well considering that they are set at timings that are not really appropriate for a 667MHz operation speed. Anyway the performance it better then any DDR kit ever did, so that really proves that the future lies with DDR2 when it comes to high-end Intel and AMD based computer systems. However we will check how these will perform when we actually set the best memory timings for delivering world class DDR2-667 performance.