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- Jan 5, 2004
- Location
- Denver, CO
Intro: This argument comes up time and time again on every forum you visit, but which one is really "better"? Well why don't we run a few tests and see if we can't come up with an answer shall we? What we'll do here is to compare a set of G.Skill TCCD @ DDR600 to a set of UTT @ DDR500 and see who comes out on top. By running a set of very common benchmarks hopfully this will give us some idea of which set of memory will fit your system best. Although this won't be the end of the arguement, perhaps this will makes your decision a little less cloudy.
Method: So what i did here was take a set of G.Skill PC-4400 LE TCCD 440 memory and put it up against a set of OCZ PC-4000 Gold VX UTT running in the exact same system. The only difference with these tests was the memory sticks used. I took a series of common benchmarks and ran them each a total of 3 times, and took the score that fit into the middle as the end result. Although there is no real good way to make a comparison for everyone, this should give a good idea of how the two sets stack up.
Test Setup:
DFI NF4 SLI-DR 6/23-3 Beta
AMD A64 FX-57 @ 3000MHz 1.4v
Sapphire x850XT Cat 5.6 (520/540)
OCZ Powerstream 600x Adj
2x74GB Raptors RAID 0
Windows XP SP1
Mach II Cooled
Memory:
2x512mb G.Skill PC-4400 TCCD LE @ 2.7v
2x512mb OCZ PC-4000 Gold VX @ 3.2v
Results:
Super PI 1m:
TCCD
UTT
Here in our first test you can see TCCD clearly beats the UTT at these settings. This test has always been very memory dependent. Through all my testing i have found it takes UTT at least 265HTT or better to take down a good set of TCCD @ DDR600.
Futuremark PCMark04 Memory Test Suite:
TCCD
UTT
Method: So what i did here was take a set of G.Skill PC-4400 LE TCCD 440 memory and put it up against a set of OCZ PC-4000 Gold VX UTT running in the exact same system. The only difference with these tests was the memory sticks used. I took a series of common benchmarks and ran them each a total of 3 times, and took the score that fit into the middle as the end result. Although there is no real good way to make a comparison for everyone, this should give a good idea of how the two sets stack up.
Test Setup:
DFI NF4 SLI-DR 6/23-3 Beta
AMD A64 FX-57 @ 3000MHz 1.4v
Sapphire x850XT Cat 5.6 (520/540)
OCZ Powerstream 600x Adj
2x74GB Raptors RAID 0
Windows XP SP1
Mach II Cooled
Memory:
2x512mb G.Skill PC-4400 TCCD LE @ 2.7v
2x512mb OCZ PC-4000 Gold VX @ 3.2v
Results:
Super PI 1m:
TCCD
UTT
Here in our first test you can see TCCD clearly beats the UTT at these settings. This test has always been very memory dependent. Through all my testing i have found it takes UTT at least 265HTT or better to take down a good set of TCCD @ DDR600.
Futuremark PCMark04 Memory Test Suite:
TCCD
UTT