Slightly confused...

[Bestmaxx]

Here's there deal,

I had 2 gigs of cheap samsung pc3200, I wanted more performance, so i went out and purchased 1gig of dual channel pc3200el ocz rev 2....

On the sandralite memory bandiwth, my numbers went down 750 points. Even though my other ram ran at about 3 5 5 9.. or close to that.

This new stuff runs at 2 2 2 5... which is better for playing games?

[Bestmaxx]

anyone?

[Bestmaxx]

Anyone?

[|3ourne]

I dont trust Sandra Bandwidth , try running SuperPi 1M and seeing if you score more or less. Also memtest gives you a nice idea of your system bandwidth as its unbuffered. These two should show that u gained bandwidth .

[rseven]

Everest also will measure bandwidth. Your scores should have gone up, with all other things being equal, as the timings are so much better. You may want to check the timings with CPU-Z. Good luck.

[illogical06]

Thats absurd, if nothing changed but the ram and and tighter timings (including programs running while benching) then i would dump that benchmark for good.

[genjaguar]

Wouldn't going from 2 gigs to 1 gig lower the score?

[|3ourne]

nope . It shouldnt , most benchies only take half of the ram when they bench and the amount of ram doesnt affect the bandwidth .

[rseven]

nope . It shouldnt , most benchies only take half of the ram when they bench and the amount of ram doesnt affect the bandwidth .
I second that, particularly with Sandra it has no affect.