Super PI

Super Pi calculates the infamous number PI from 16 thousand all the way up to 32 million digits! For our testing purposes, we decided on two million digits which takes 20 iterations. Super Pi then spits out the time (in seconds) that it took to do the calculations. Obviously, the lower the number, the better.

Super PI

Time (lower is better)

Crucial @ 400 MHz

Corsair @ 400 MHz

Transcend @ 400 MHz

135.6

134.6

138.3

0

(Seconds)

200

 

 

Super Pi is able to do it's calculations in one second less time with Corsair compared to Crucial. However, Transcend lags about four seconds behind. This test further illustrates the effect timings have on performance.

Conclusion

Performance-wise, Crucial's PC3200 faired well. The relaxed timings help ensure stability at the cost of a pretty much negligible performance drop. The mainstream user, which is Crucial's target, will never notice the difference. However, some of the more hard-core performance enthusiasts may benefit from memory which can handle more aggressive timings. Crucial's memory is very stable and impressed me with some decent overclocking. I was able to push this module to a completely stable 440 MHz. If you are looking for extremely high performance memory, you should probably look elsewhere. If you are a mainstream computer user looking for quality memory with a decent price tag, look no further than Crucial.

Pros

Solid Performance
Reliable
Overclocks Well

Cons

Conservative Timings