Test Bed:
- Intel Pentium 4 530J (Varying Clocks)
- Asus P5WD2-E Premium
- 2x512MB Modules Corsair XMS PC2-8500 (Varying Clocks)
- Ultra X2 550W PSU
- Open Air Chassis
Ah yes, the joys of a new platform. In the footsteps of Intel us reviewers must follow, updating our platform as technology would dictate. Today's little update to the flock is the shedding of the Gigabyte 8I955X Royal, who's notably buggy memory controller wouldn't let anything over 960MHz pass through. Through sheer frustration, and pending reviews, a choice needed to be made - and that choice turned out to be a necessary move to a P5WD2 Premium motherboard. As fate would have it, suppliers far and wide ran dry in the way of this particular board, so, impatient and emboldened, we just hopped to the next notch up - the P5WD2-E Premium. The inclusion of the 975X chipset on today's review motherboard will mean that we'll be testing all sorts of memory on the newest platform possible, with the highest clocks, and most accurate results. With that being said, let's move on to the standard performance drivel. It should be noted that due to the nature of this memory, it will not be possible for it to participate in the stock running, as itself that is. Only the standard clock-speed points (DDR2-667 and 800) will be here to represent it.
Super Pi 1M
SiSoft Sandra
Apart from a bit of unscheduled stupidity on the part of SuperPi, all tests went as planned, and the bandwidth advantages became clear. Though they are small, just think of how wide they can (and will) become with the advent of less burdened FSBs.
