Test System Specifications

AMD 2500+ @ various speeds Abit NF7-S Rev 2.0 Antec TruPower 550 Watt PS 2 Highpoint RocketHeads w/ 2 40GB Seagate Barracuda drives / SATA RAID 0 1 40GB Seagate Barracuda 1 160GB Seagate Barracuda 1 Lite-On 16x DVD Rom 1 52x ASUS CD-RW 1 CoolerMaster Musketeer 4 Case fans Windows XP Pro SP1

The memory used for tessting was SimpleTech's 512MB Nitro PC 3700 and 512MB K-Byte PC 2700. After manual configuration of the memory, I overclocked my 2500+ with a 11.5x multiplier onto a 200 MHz FSB, creating a 2.3 GHz chip. Both RAM modules ran perfectly with this configuration.

1 Gig of K-Byte Ram overclocked to PC3200 in Dual Channel mode

This was my benchmark results of having 1 GB of PC2700 ram overclocked to PC3200 specs in dual channel memory configuration with memory timings of 2.5-4-4-7.

512 Megs of K-Byte Ram overclocked to PC3200 in Single Channel Mode

The results looked shockingly similar to the Dual Channel memory configuration using the same memory timings.

The first thing I did after taking out my K-Byte memory was to use the same memory configuration, 2.5-4-4-7 and crank the SimpleTech memory to 480 MHz and it would not even boot up. So I dropped it to 433 MHz, which is what this Nitro's memory SPD is set to, with the 2.5-4-4-7.

SimpleTech's Nitro PC3700 @ 2.5-4-4-7

It churned out some impressive results but I was not really impressed by the overclocking at such aggressive timings so I relaxed it by setting it to its SPD which was 3-5-5-10. Now I was really impressed with the results. With the relaxed settings I was able to crank this memory up effectively to 500 MHz.

SimpleTech's Nitro PC3700 @ 3-5-5-10 (OC to PC4000)

This overclock in essence became PC4000 as seen in the "Maximum Bus Bandwidth." This memory went beyond the overclocking capabilities of my AXZEA 0331 XPMW stepping AMD 2500+ Barton. In order to achieve screen shot, I had to reduce my multiplier to 8x which resulted in a 2 GHz processor.