** Motherboard: Intel D955XBX
** Processor: Intel Pentium D 820
** Memory: 2x 512MB OCZ PC2-6400 Gold Series
** Memory (2): 2x 512MB Micron PC2-4200
** Graphics Card: NVIDIA 6800GT
** Power Supply: Enermax 550W
** Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2

     To start off the performance benchmarks today, we’re first going to take a look at the results obtained through the synthetic benchmarks. SiSoft SANDRA is arguably one of the best known, and most widely used benchmarks for memory bandwidth, and we’ll be starting off our benchmarks with this software suite.

     The Floating Point benchmarks show what one would expect. The Micron RAM posts up ever so slightly better bandwidth numbers than that of the OCZ. This is of course due to the difference in timings, 3-4-4-8 versus 5-5-5-10. This ends up in roughly a 1.5% gain in bandwidth levels realized by the Micron over the OCZ. Nothing to write home about. The OCZ puts up excellent numbers into the 800MHz range, while the Micron couldn’t even reach 667MHz.

     This same story holds true for the Integer portion of the bandwidth tests. The Micro RAM against holds a slight 1.4% performance lead over the OCZ, due to the faster memory timings. We also notice the same pattern of performance with the OCZ when jumping between clock settings. Keep in mind -- these tests were all done with the FSB and CPU frequency fixed.