A-Data Vitesta Extreme Edition DDR2 800MHz review

Page 3 - Testing methods

To test how well A-Data Vitesta DDR800 2x1GB performs, we chose a variety tests of a different nature. The first tests you see (SiSoft Sandra and Everest Ultimate) show the memory's transfer rate and latency. Alas it's a fact that a handful of people are interested in these numbers. And because this memory targets the gamers, we included two very popular and very heavy games, for which memory is very important. We'll also see how high latency we can achieve with A-Data Vitesta DDR800, which will satisfy the questions of the other consumer group that A-DATA targets - the overclockers. Especially for them we've included the popular benchmark 3DMark Vantage, to see how important the speed of the memory is for the test.

To test how well A-Data Vitesta DDR800 2x1GB performs, we chose a variety tests of a different nature. First tests you see (SiSoft Sandra and Everest Ultimate) show memory's transfer rate and latency. Alas it's a fact that a handful of people are interested in these numbers. And because this memory targets mostly gamers, we included two very popular and very intensive games, which require lots of memory. We'll also test relatively how overclockable it is, answering A-Data's targeted overclockers group. Especially for them we've included Futuremark's popular benchmark 3DMark Vantage, to see how important memory speed is for the test.

Testing configuration

• Motherboard: ASUS P5K-E WiFi P35
• CPU: Intel Core2Duo E8500
• VGA: Albatron GeForce 8800GT
• Sound card: Creative Audidgy Value
• HDD 1: Western Digital Raptor 10 000rpm 36GB
• HDD 2: Seagate Barracuda 9 7200rpm 300GB
• Optical drive: ASUS DVD+/-RW 24x Ligthscribe SATA
• PSU: Raptoxx 1200W
• Monitor: Belinea o.display 4_24" LCD 1920x1200

Tests

• 3DMark Vantage 1.01
• SiSoft Sandra Lite XII.SP2c
• Everest Ultimate 4.60
• Crysis 1.21
• World in Conflict 1.009

On the next page you'll find out what latency we've achieved with A-Data Vitesta Extreme Edition DDR2-800.