Today I got 2 x 1GB sticks of Geil RAM (5-5-5-15, DDR2 800), put them in my machine, and ran 3Dmark06. My specs are:
Core 2 duo E6400 @ 2.13GHz
Asus P5N32-E SLI
Powercolor X1900XT 512mb (stock speeds)
Afore mentioned Geil RAM
At 1280 x 1024 I got 5696 points. The problem is, with only 512mb of RAM, I got 5671. Shouldn't increasing the memory four-fold add more then just 25 points?
I also ran 3Dmark01 and got 30851 points, compared with 29174 points with the 512MB stick. An increase of 1700 sounds large, but when compared with the 1800 point increase I got by getting a second 512mb stick of RAM with my old skt939/DDR1 machine (going from 512MB to 1GB), it doesn't sound right.
Is there something wrong with my machine, or doesn't RAM really effect 3Dmark scores and performance increases only show up in-game? Because at the moment, one would think that by going from 512MB of DDR533 to 2GB of dual channeled DDR800, there would be some kind of major change in my scores.
Help plzkthnxbai.
Core 2 duo E6400 @ 2.13GHz
Asus P5N32-E SLI
Powercolor X1900XT 512mb (stock speeds)
Afore mentioned Geil RAM
At 1280 x 1024 I got 5696 points. The problem is, with only 512mb of RAM, I got 5671. Shouldn't increasing the memory four-fold add more then just 25 points?
I also ran 3Dmark01 and got 30851 points, compared with 29174 points with the 512MB stick. An increase of 1700 sounds large, but when compared with the 1800 point increase I got by getting a second 512mb stick of RAM with my old skt939/DDR1 machine (going from 512MB to 1GB), it doesn't sound right.
Is there something wrong with my machine, or doesn't RAM really effect 3Dmark scores and performance increases only show up in-game? Because at the moment, one would think that by going from 512MB of DDR533 to 2GB of dual channeled DDR800, there would be some kind of major change in my scores.
Help plzkthnxbai.
