Crucial 512MB PC3200 DDR400 Memory

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Brian Kristensen
Kurtis
Crucial
Apr. 9, 2004

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SiSoft Sandra 2004

Our first test is Sandra's memory benchmark. The results are purely theoretical and may not accurately represent real-world performance.

SiSoft Sandra
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Memory Bandwidth Int

Memory Bandwidth Float

Crucial @ 400 MHz

Corsair @ 400 MHz

Transcend @ 400 MHz

2998

3006

2960

(MB/s)

4000

Memory Bandwidth Int

Memory Bandwidth Float

Crucial @ 400 MHz

Corsair @ 400 MHz

Transcend @ 400 MHz

2991

3003

2962

(MB/s)

4000

The difference in performance is negligible.

Aida32

AIDA32 has a built in benchmark that tests the theoretical read/write bandwidth of system memory. Like Sandra, the results may vary from the memory's real-world performance.

Aida32
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Memory Read Access

Memory Write Access

Crucial @ 400 MHz

Corsair @ 400 MHz

Transcend @ 400 MHz

3046

3016

2996

(MB/s)

4000

Memory Read Access

Memory Write Access

Crucial @ 400 MHz

Corsair @ 400 MHz

Transcend @ 400 MHz

1178

1215

1152

(MB/s)

4000

Corsair's memory is slightly faster than Crucials, and Transcend's is slightly slower than Crucial's. These differences seem to follow suit with each modules timings.

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6 User Comments

1 - Posted by A Person on April 10, 2004 - 1:50 am

I usually think of Crucial as the memory that you buy for your average PC. I was surprised to see it perform that well, even with reduced timings.

So does crucial have different quality memory? All I could determine from their website is that they make different speeds of "memory upgrades" :D from EDO and PC100 up to DDR2-533. I guess what I'm asking is, Corsair has the "Value Select" series and the XMS series. Does crucial have anything like that?

2 - Posted by Brian on April 10, 2004 - 11:21 am

All of Crucial's memory is pretty much the same. As far as I can tell, they don't have a higher/lower quality or speed lines of modules.

They have some information on their website which might be of interest to you. This is page four of their "Quality Counts" section:

http://www.crucial.com/library/quality_page4.asp

3 - Posted by Guest on April 10, 2004 - 12:19 pm

good review, but you didn't bench any games. will timings affect games more than synthetic benchmarks?

4 - Posted by Tulatin on April 10, 2004 - 6:58 pm

It also performs about the same as the ECC models.

5 - Posted by A Person on April 11, 2004 - 5:53 pm

wow, i never knew what "generic memory" actually meant. i guess i will never buy any of that stuff.

6 - Posted by OldCoot on May 9, 2004 - 1:29 am

I have an Asus P4P800, Intel 2.4C with a stick of the same 512 Mb Crucial PC 3200 memory.
The motherboard set to 'auto' detects the memory timing as 2.5-4-4-8.
Which timing is theoretically faster: the reviewed 3-3-3-8 or my detected 2.5-4-4-8?
I know that CAS 2.5 is faster than 3, but I don't know what effect the other numbers have on it.

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