SiSoft Sandra

Sisoft’s “Sandra” tool allows you to run a series of component specific tests on your system and compare them to a wide number of components within the results database. This can be useful in determining how well your system is performing and if any changes in components would benefit performance.

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We’ll look at memory bandwidth performance later on in the article so for now lets look at the difference in performance you get from changing your memory. The baseline results should be the Corsair figures as they are based on a 1Gb product which was widely available and will probably be most similar to the modules most end users have already. Comparing firstly the move from 1Gb (Corsair) to 2gb (OCZ400) we see that the performance achieved is very similar in both the Arithmetic and Multimedia test, despite the lower timings of the Corsair memory. Looking next at the enhanced speed of the OCZ we see that there isn’t a great difference in performance however the OCZ 466 results are all ahead of the DDR400 results.