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Topic: Memory
Product: Corsair TwinX 2048-4000PT Evaluation
Provided by: Corsair Micro
Reviewer: K. Elliott
Price: $280.00 (Newegg)

 

Test System

Processor: AMD64 3000+ Venice
Motherboard: DFI NF4 Ultra Infinity
Power Supply: Hiper 580 Modular
Video Card: HIS X850 XT Platinum
Hard Drives: 2 - WD 80 GB Caviar Special Edition RAID 0
Heatsink: PrimeCooler Primecool 3+
Case: AeroCool Masstige
Software: Windows XP SP2
 

The first test we ran the 4000PT was using Lavalys's Everest Ultimate Edition, we took reading of the memory starting at 200MHz and then and then worked our way  upward until we maxed out using a 1:1 setting using 3-3-3-8 timing. Once we found the maximum overclock speed we could reach we began to test the stability of the memory using Prime, paying special attention to test # 5 to see if any error began to appear.
 
We tried everything short of a blood sacrifice to get the memory to get the memory up to 275 MHz, but there was no joy in Mudville. No matter how I approached it it would not budge above 270 MHz and I lay a great deal of the blame on the NF4 Ultra motherboard we were using.  Shortly after we started our tests we were unable to adjust the core voltage without the system freezing and having to reset the BIOS.  None the less we were able to run the memory rock stable using Prime for six hours without a single error.
 
  Read  Write Copy CAS Volts
220 MHz 6033 5215 4157 3-3-3-8 2.8
230 MHz 6573 5713 4564 3-3-3-8 2.8
250 MHZ 7144 6243 4981 3-3-3-8 2.8
260 MHz 7469 6498 5181 3-3-3-8 2.8
265 MHz 7615 6616 5291 3-3-3-8 2.8
270 MHZ 7801 6789 5389 3-3-3-8 2.8

Super Pi is a utility determines the Pi to specified number of decimal points thus insuring that your memory is performing at its maximum performance while it is doing this.  This program is almost entirely memory intensive and therefore if there are any memory problems they should show up in this program.  We could have ran the program longer, say in the 32 Meg runs but since we knew the memory was already stable there was no need to waste our time doing so. 

  Seconds
210 Mhz 45 sec.
220 MHz 42 sec.
230 MHz 40 sec.
240 MHz 40 sec.
250 Mhz 37 sec.
260 MHz 35 sec.
270 MHz 34 sec.

Once again a very respectable score and also one of the fastest scores we have seen.

 

 

 

 

 

 
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