G.SKILL F1-3200PHU2-2GBNS PC3200 Review

Name: G.SKILL F1-3200PHU2-2GBNS PC3200
Brand: G.SKILL

W1zzard

on Feb 18th, 2006,

in Memory.

Manufacturer: G.SKILL

Value and Conclusion »

Test Setup

Test System
CPU:	AMD Athlon64 3000+ Venice
Motherboard:	DFI LanParty NF4, Bios 5.10-2 Fix
Memory:	2x 1024 MB G.SKILL F1-3200PHU2-2GBNS PC3200
Video Card:	ATI Radeon X850 Pro PCI-E
Harddisk:	Maxtor Diamondmax 160GB
Power Supply:	HEC PurePower 475
Software:	Windows XP SP2, Catalyst 6.1

Performance

Usually we are showing you here how a certain memory scales with increased voltage. But after a while of testing it became clear that this memory does not benefit from increasing voltage or changing the timings. Pretty much our sample always ran at 213-215 MHz, no matter the voltage. Relaxing timings did not help the overclock either. We tried voltages from 2.6V up to 2.9V and timings up to 3-4-4-8.

With this memory it is best if you run it at the best timings possible because there is nothing to be gained from relaxing them.

The last test "JEDEC DDR-400A" is for comparison with a generic DDR module running at JEDEC standard timings.

G.SKILL F1-3200PHU2-2GBNS PC3200
CPU Clock & Memory Ratio	Memory Speed	Memory Timings	Everest Read	Everest Write	Everest Latency	Quake 3 Timedemo	3DMark 2001SE	SuperPi Mod 1M
9 x 200 1:1	200 MHz	2.5-3-3-6 2.6V	5345 MB/s	2144 MB/s	51.7 ns	255.1 fps	20182	46.60 s
9 x 213 1:1	213 MHz	2.5-3-3-6 2.6V	5648 MB/s	2133 MB/s	48.9 ns	270.0 fps	21208	43.99 s
9 x 214 1:1	214 MHz	2.5-3-3-6 2.8V	5714 MB/s	2243 MB/s	48.8 ns	271.3 fps	21243	43.75 s
9 x 215 1:1	215 MHz	3-3-3-6 2.8V	5620 MB/s	2154 MB/s	49.0 ns	271.2 fps	21118	43.63 s
JEDEC DDR-400A	200 MHz	2.5-3-3-8 2.6V	5314 MB/s	2123 MB/s	52.1 ns	255.1 fps	20162	46.61 s

For easier comparison with other modules, we set the maximum voltage required for the best result (here 2.8V; max 3.1V) and tested until we found the highest clock frequency and fastest timings for this memory. The benchmarks Everest Read, Everest Write and Quake 3 were run. We then calculated the performance increase in percent compared to some standard DDR-400 memory running at JEDEC standard timings (2.5-3-3-8). The average percentage of the three benchmarks is listed in following table: