Mushkin HP2-6400 DDR2 800 Mhz (2 x 2GB) Ram

Testing:

CacheMem: This benchmark is another tool we use to gauge memory read-write performance.

Higher is Better

Higher is Better

Far Cry: For this game test, we will use the following settings and run the Hardware OC 1.7 benchmark utility. The measure for this benchmark will be in FPS.

• Maximum quality option, Direct3D renderer
• Level: Volcano, demo: Volcano.tmd
• Pixel shader: model 2.0b
• Anti-alising: 4×
• Anisotropic filtering: 8×
• HDR: disabled
• Geometry Instancing: disabled
• Normal-maps compression: disabled

Higher is Better

Higher is Better

Higher is Better

Again, the performance increase is pretty dramatic!