System setup
Here's a quick rundown of the test system should you wish to compare benchmark results with your own.
- AMD XP2700 CPU 166FSB
- MSI nForce2 motherboard
- Intel Pentium 4 2266MHz S478 Northwood CPU (17x133FSB)
- ABIT IT7-MAX i845E run in official DDR266 and asynchronous mode (1.33x FSB)
- 2 x 256MB Corsair XMS3200LL modules in a TWINX matched pack
- 256MB OCZ EL DDR PC3500 and 256MB Mushkin PC3200
Other components
- ATi Radeon 9700 Pro (324/310)
- WD 120JB 120GB hard drive
- Liteon 16x DVD
- Samcheer 420w PSU
- Samsung 181T TFT monitor
- Alpha 8942 + YSTech fan
- Coolermaster XDream cooler
Software
- Windows XP Professional Build 2600.xpclient.010817-1148
- Intel 4.00.109 chipset drivers
- Intel application accelerator drivers
- nForce 2.0 drivers
- Catalyst 3.1 drivers (6292)
- Pifast v41
- Virtual Dub 1.4.10 DVD encoding, DivX 4.10 CODEC
- 3DMark 2001SE v330
- UT2003 Demo
One dual channel motherboard and a P4 i845E motherboard that's a good test of how these modules will fare together in a conventional motherboard should show us just how good they are.