Asus P5K vs Asus P5K3 Benchmarks (DDR2 vs DDR3)
Test Setup
Published: 16th July 2007 | Source: Asus | Price: |
To ensure that all reviews on Overclock3D are fair, consistent and unbiased, a standard set of hardware and software is used whenever possible during the comparative testing of two or more products. The configuration used in this review can be seen below:
| Asus P5K3 Deluxe (DDR3) | Asus P5K Deluxe (DDR2) | |
| Processor | Intel Core2Duo E4300 @ 3.0ghz (333x9) | |
| Memory | Kingston PC3-11000 2GB DDR3 (7-7-7-20) @ 1333mhz | Kingston PC2-9600 2GB DDR2 (5-5-5-15) @ 1066mhz |
| Graphics Card | XpertVision ATI X1950Pro PCI-E 512mb (Stock) | |
| Hard Disk | Hitachi Deskstar 80GB 7K80 SATA2 7200RPM 8mb | |
| CPU Cooling | Stock Intel Aluminium Cooler | |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows XP (SP2) 32bit - Latest Patches | |
| Graphics Drivers | ATI Catalyst 7.4.44981 (Latest Official) | |
| Motherboard Drivers | Intel INF 8.300.1013 | |
After much discussion on our forums about how this review would be conducted, the final concensus was to run both the DDR2 and DDR3 memory modules at the motherboard's highest native memory speeds (1066mhz for the P5K and 1333mhz for the P5K3). These speeds are counter-weighted by the difference in memory timings (5-5-5-15 on DDR2 vs 7-7-7-20 on DDR3) which should give us a good idea of how lower frequency DDR2 compares to its higher latency DDR3 counterpart.
Asus P5K Deluxe (DDR2) CPU-Z
Asus P5K3 Deluxe (DDR3) CPU-Z
Asus P5K3 Deluxe (DDR3) CPU-Z
To guarantee a broad range of results, the following benchmark utilities were used:
• Sisoft Sandra XI SP2 (CPU, Memory & HDD tests)
• SuperPI Mod v1.4 (1m and 16m)
• Cinebench 9.5
• HDTach 3.0.4.0
• Quake 4
• Counter-Strike:Source
• F.E.A.R
• 3DMark05
• 3DMark06
Most Recent Comments
looks the same as the ddr vs ddr2 when it came out too me...
Nice job jim.
Nice job jim.
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Originally Posted by name='Ham'
looks the same as the ddr vs ddr2 when it came out too me...
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Is it safe to say that ddr2 now owns ddr in terms of performance?
I'm wondering if it is simply a matter of time before ddr3 really comes on with speeds of 2ghz and 5-5-5-15 timings and puts the nail in ddr2's coffin...
Nice work btw. I for one won't be buying a new mobo/ram until nehlam by the looks of this.
I was toying with getting another 2gb kit of cellshocks in the next month. Not sure what benefit I would get with 32bit XP pro... Hmmm.
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Originally Posted by name='Mr. Smith'
I wasn't into pc's back then so I don't have any experience with ddr.
Is it safe to say that ddr2 now owns ddr in terms of performance? |
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Originally Posted by name='Mr. Smith'
I'm wondering if it is simply a matter of time before ddr3 really comes on with speeds of 2ghz and 5-5-5-15 timings and puts the nail in ddr2's coffin... |
I'm going to see if we can get hold of some of that Kingston 5-5-5-15 DDR3 and put it up against the 7-7-7-20 stuff and maybe some DDR2.
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Originally Posted by name='XMS'
Yeah pretty much, tho someone at OCZ told me that a Conroe on a DDR board beat the cr@p out of a DDR2 setup. Apparently it really liked the low latencies of DDR.
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Originally Posted by name='XMS'
I'm going to see if we can get hold of some of that Kingston 5-5-5-15 DDR3 and put it up against the 7-7-7-20 stuff and maybe some DDR2.
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Originally Posted by name='Mr. Smith'
:eh: c2d and ddr beat c2d and ddr2?
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They must had some seriously crazy test bed for that. Rather than just the ASRock 4coredual-vsta...
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