PC3200 ram speed help

[aesalon]

all right, I was hoping someone here could help me out.

I just got an xp2200 and a soyo kt400 dragon platinum mobo. on top of that, I got 2x256MB of PC3200 mushkin ram. but I began running some benchmarks using sisoft sandra 2003 and check out what I got below.

basically, this program says my ram is running shitty and I'm wondering if those benchmarks that sisoft sandra uses as "refrence" material are real or bullshit.

the mobo settings are at where it should exactly be and the mobo is updated to the latest bios.

what I was wondering if there was anyone out there that has pc3200 ram and could run some similar benchmarks and let me know what they are because I want to figure out if spending $200 on this "high-speed" ram was a good idea.

maybe someone could let me know of any other way to test the ram?

thanks.


Sisoft Benchmark's Shot

 

[microAmp]

What are the numbers you getting.

 

[aesalon]

it's all in the screenshot provided.

 

[microAmp]

*DOH* Guess it would help to look at the ENTIRE POST

I did a bit of search to back up my statement and the Sandra numbers are pretty much bogus to me. First off I have my CPU clocked to 162 MHz FSB and I can't even get close to the KT400 benchmarks Sandra has, 2250 for me w/non- agressive memory timings, but still 600 off?

If you look at this review you'll see that the #'s there are about 2k, that is with the KT333 chipset. Not much more would be really gained going to more bandwidth that what the CPU is designed to do.

The Athlon 133 MHz FSB can get 2.1 GB/s. But if the memory is trying to shove 3.2 GB/s to it, the CPU will only take 2.1 GB/s and maybe just a little bit more for a little performace gain.

I had the same question as you before on why I was only getting 2250 and the CPU FSB was a whole hell a lot faster than a CPU @ 133 FSB with KT400 chipset. I just wrote it off by a BS by Sandra.