Benchmarking (continued):
Everest Home Edition 2.01 Memory Benchmark - The next benchmark is much like SiSoft Sandra, as it provides two results, both in units of MB/s (higher is better), but this time they are for the memory read and write speeds. At default speed, and even slightly overclocked to PC3500 specifications, the Kingston kit once again outshines the Corsair PC3500LL kit. The results were not as surprising this time around, but just as impressive. As in the Sandra testing, the results really suffer when overclocked up to 460MHz.
Futuremark PCMark05 System Benchmark - The results in this round of testing are unitless "Marks" (higher is better), and the numbers charted below represent the overall system performance. The results are all very close, but this time we see a reversal of the trend seen in the first two benchmarks. This time the Kingston kit scores highest on the 460MHz testing, does well at 438MHz, and is beaten by the Corsair kit at 400MHz. At 400 MHz, the differences in scores amount to around 2%, which isn't much to get excited about.
PiFast 43 - This test is run at a command line, and will calculate the value of Pi to as many decimal places as the operator requests. In the process, it records the amount of time the calculations take (lower is better), and the results are reported in terms of seconds. The variables set for testing purposes include; calculating Pi to ten million digits, using the "Chudnovsky" method, and using an "FFT" size of 1024 K. From the results below we see that we are back to the trend established in the Sandra and Everest testing... The Kingston kit does marginally better than the Corsair kit at 400MHz and 438MHz, but can not compete at 460MHz. In all honesty, the scores at 400MHz and 438MHz are so close that they are statistically insignificant.
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