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Well this came up today as to whether CAS1.5 offered any real gains over CAS2. And although it's been discussed before, and openly stated by AMD that their CPU's do not support CAS1.5 why does everyone still run it? I spent the last hour testing this theory so i can have some hard evidence of my own.
What i did was test 6 common benchmarks using an identical system with CAS being the only changes to the system. My goal was to see if having that sexy looking CAS1.5 actually offered anything over CAS2. Well lets see what i found out.
Test Setup:
DFI NF4 SLI-D 6/23-2 Beta
AMD X2 4400+ Toledo 1.55v 2900MHz
Sapphire x850 XT Cat 5.7 600/600
2x512 OCZ Gold VX PC-4000 3.4v
2x250GB Hitachi T7K250 RAID 0
PCP&C 510 Deluxe SLI
Windows XP Professional x64 Eddition SP1
Results:
Super PI 1m:
CAS1.5 - 28.219
CAS2 - 28.250
Sandra Bandwidth
CAS1.5 - 7,596
CAS2 - 7,593
PCMark04:
CAS1.5 - 8,765
CAS2 - 8,776
What i did was test 6 common benchmarks using an identical system with CAS being the only changes to the system. My goal was to see if having that sexy looking CAS1.5 actually offered anything over CAS2. Well lets see what i found out.
Test Setup:
DFI NF4 SLI-D 6/23-2 Beta
AMD X2 4400+ Toledo 1.55v 2900MHz
Sapphire x850 XT Cat 5.7 600/600
2x512 OCZ Gold VX PC-4000 3.4v
2x250GB Hitachi T7K250 RAID 0
PCP&C 510 Deluxe SLI
Windows XP Professional x64 Eddition SP1
Results:
Super PI 1m:
CAS1.5 - 28.219
CAS2 - 28.250
Sandra Bandwidth
CAS1.5 - 7,596
CAS2 - 7,593
PCMark04:
CAS1.5 - 8,765
CAS2 - 8,776