Page 5 - Sandra & PC Mark05 CPU tests

Sandra - Synthetic Tests
SiSoftware's Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. Sandra provides similar level of information to Norton SI, Quarterdeck WinProbe/Manifest, etc. The Win32 version is 32-bit and comes in both ANSI (legacy for Windows 98/Me systems) and native Unicode (Windows NT4/200X/.Net) formats. The Win64 version is 64-bit and comes in native Unicode format.

Do note that all the SANDRA benchmarks are synthetic and thus may not tally with real-life performance. The latter stands for whatever your environment is, i.e. which applications you run with what amount of data and so on. It is up to you to decide whether what Sandra measures is what you want to measure.

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Below you can find the scores of Sandra starting with memory performance:

It will be quite difficult to understand what we present to you. Interpreting data in the way we tested and what we can show you simply is hard to comprehend, especially with all the mathematic BIOS timings and dividers. Memory tweaking and overclocking is close to science.

Let me try to explain a little how to interpret the chart (PC2 6400 and 8400 respectively). The you'll notice the The AData memory at 800 MHz (default) and also the results overclocked towards 1066 MHz which ran absolutely stable as well. At 800 MHZ we used SPD assigned timings (4-4-4-12) and overclocked to 1066 MHz at 5-5-5-16. All other memories run at the default specified maximum timings.

This basically means you insert it into your PC and let the PC read and the memory decide what timings to use (it reads it from the memory SPD/EPP). As you can see, subtle differences, but the differences are there alright. The Adata 2GB kit is really impressive and competing with 200 USD OCZ Reaper memory. This is at a default FSB in combo with the new Core 2 Quad QX6850 3GHz 1333 FSB processor.

PCMark 2005
PCMark 05 is the latest version of the popular PCMark series. PCMark05 is an application-based benchmark and a premium tool for measuring overall PC performance. It uses portions of real applications instead of including very large applications or using specifically created code. This allows PCMark05 to be a smaller installation as well as to report very accurate results. As far as possible, PCMark05 uses public domain applications whose source code can be freely examined by any user. 

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With PCMark05 we can see the difference getting a little higher already. Most people will have 800 MHz memory. Notice there's a good 200 MB per second differential from that memory towards the memory overclocked at 1066 MHz.

Also, and please make not of this, the Adata memory here is being compared to high-end Corsair and OCZ memory. These are not your average budget modules at all.