Buffalo Firestix PC2-8500 Memory Review
The Test Setup
Benchmarks and Testing Setup:
Test Platform:
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Component |
Brand/Model |
Live Pricing |
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Processor |
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ |
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Motherboard |
ECS KA3MVP Deluxe |
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Video Card |
ATI X1900 XTX ATI X1900 CF |
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Memory |
Buffalo Tech PC2-8500 1GB Kit ADATA PC-6400 2GB Kit Kingston ValueRam PC-4200 1GB Kit |
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Hard Drive |
Western Digital 250GB, 16mb Cache |
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Cooling |
Corsair Nautilus |
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Power Supply |
Antec Neo HE 550 |
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Operating System |
Windows XP Professional w/SP2 |
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All tests were run using a clean install of Windows XP Professional with SP2, using the latest release bios. For our stock speed tests, we ran everything at default timings for the CPU. Our stock speed testing used settings of DDR800 at 4-4-4-12 and 1.8 vDimm. Timings for our overclocking of the Buffalo ram were set to 5-5-5-15 and 2.3v, but the CPU multiplier was set to 8x to take the CPU out of the DDR overclocking. The video card was left at default timings as well for all tests. For this review, stability was determined by running our battery of tests, plus the ability to complete a SuperPi 32mb test run and 3 full passes of Memtest.
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