Test System

Pentium 4 2.4c
ABIT IC7-MAX3
ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256 MB
160 GB SATA Seagate Barracuda (8 MB cache)
LiteOn 16X DVD-ROM
Soyo Raptor 400W Power Supply
Windows XP Professional (all the latest updates except Service Pack 2 installed)

ScienceMark 2

ScienceMark2 is a rather interesting utility which uses mathematical calculations to benchmark the CPU and memory. The ScienceMark 2 tests I used were the standard memory benchmark, Cipher, Molecular Dynamics and Primordia tests. ScienceMark 2 times how long it takes to process different scientific equations. The memory bandwidth benchmark is measured in MB/s; the higher the better. The other three tests output the time it took in seconds; lower is better.

ScienceMark 2

Memory Bandwidth

Mushkin PC3200 LII V2 @ 200 MHz

Corsair PC3200 XL Pro @ 200 MHz

Corsair PC3200 XL Pro @ 209 MHz

Corsair PC3200 XL Pro @ 254 MHz

4168.32

4106.77

4288.63

5136.80

0

(seconds)

7500

 

 

ScienceMark 2
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Cipher

Moldyn

Primordia

Mushkin PC3200 LII V2 @ 200 MHz

Corsair PC3200 XL Pro @ 200 MHz

Corsair PC3200 XL Pro @ 209 MHz

Corsair PC3200 XL Pro @ 254 MHz

18.35

18.46

17.52

14.38

0

(seconds)

750

 

 

Cipher

Moldyn

Primordia

Mushkin PC3200 LII V2 @ 200 MHz

Corsair PC3200 XL Pro @ 200 MHz

Corsair PC3200 XL Pro @ 209 MHz

Corsair PC3200 XL Pro @ 254 MHz

119.91

119.46

118.76

96.21

0

(seconds)

750

 

 

Cipher

Moldyn

Primordia

Mushkin PC3200 LII V2 @ 200 MHz

Corsair PC3200 XL Pro @ 200 MHz

Corsair PC3200 XL Pro @ 209 MHz

Corsair PC3200 XL Pro @ 254 MHz

545.85

550.98

524.50

433.10

0

(seconds)

750

 

 

The majority of the ScienceMark tests show a significant increase in performance from the extra 9 MHz at 2-2-2-5. At stock speeds, the Corsair and Mushkin still perform about the same.

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.

And finally, Super Pi shows pretty much the same 4% improvement from the 9 MHz overclock and 24% improvement from the 54 MHz overclock.