Super Talent Project X 2x1GB DDR3 PC3-14400 Review

We will first look at PC Mark 05 and the built in WinRAR system benchmark. PC Mark 05 doesn't inherently focus on the memory system for results but it will give us a good feel for the overall system performance of the various setups. WinRAR on the other hand is heavily influenced by memory frequency and timings giving us a good comparison between performance with the results at the same CPU frequency.

Nothing really stands out in the PC Mark results which was to be expected. The most telling comparisons are between the first two results (gray and blue bars) and the first and second red results which are both at the same CPU frequency. Both show very little difference and the DDR2 setup actually scores higher, no doubt from its higher 50MHz of CPU frequency. The WinRAR results are very telling and really do outline the performance differences between the various memory setups. The DDR2 setup clearly lags behind despite its advantage in CPU frequency and as the DDR3 frequencies go up, the times come down quite drastically.

The last of the benchmarks in this section are the SuperPi results in both the 1M and 32M calculation. Like WinRAR, SuperPi heavily relies on the memory sub-system and the results indicate this. The 1M results are more an indication of the memory latency and the 32M results tend to echo bandwidth results. It is interesting to see the very tight differences between the 3600MHz times in and gap between the first two results in the 32M calculation. SuperPi seems to indicate quite a fight between 800MHz at 6-6-5 and 900MHz at 7-7-7 which wasn't really evident in the bandwidth results despite SuperPi being sensitive to FSB like the bandwidth results. This was a bit un-expected and can't really be explained at this time. The results were tested and re-tested with no difference though so there is nothing amiss in the numbers. Let's now move on to the limited 3D results in the next section.