All three sticks of RAM were tested at speeds of 166MHz and 200MHz on our Soyo KT400 DRAGON based off of the VIA KT400 chipset. We chose this board for its un-official support for DDR400, frequency dividers, and memory performance. The dividers will help achieve higher memory speeds without overclocking the PCI and AGP speeds very much. It is imperative that I mention that we could not get any stick to run at above 410MHz on this board, or any other DDR400 supporting motherboard we have in our possession. This is probably due to the fact that there is no standard for DDR400 production, and the fact that it is after all a new feature and needs time to be tweaked through chipset revisions. We ran tests with SiSoft SANDRA, Quake III Arena Demo, and Unreal Tournament 2003. Now we’ll see who has the “Gamer’s Memory.”

Test System Specifications - AMD Athlon MP 2100+, Soyo KT400 DRAGON, 256MB Samsung PC2700, 512MB Corsair XMS3000v1.1, 512MB XtremeDDR PC-3500+, Gainward GeForce3, Samsung SP4002H 40GB Hard Drive, Sound Disabled.

     We tested all three modules 166MHz, and 200MHz. At the 166MHz test speed, the XtremeDDR PC-3500+ comes out the winner for integer performance, while the Corsair RAM takes the floating-point performance. At 200MHz, we can see that once again the case is the same as was seen at 166MHz. The XtremeDDR PC-3500+ takes the crown for integer performance, but drops to a close second for floating-point performance. The battle between the memory modules is very close as expected, and at least from the SANDRA tests, we can’t yet be sure which stick will come out on top at the end of the testing. The XtremeDDR Pc-3500+ holds promise so far, but the question is, will it keep this up?