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Performance Results

Please take note that all Dual Channel results are recorded with the memory set at the same speed as the FSB. So for our 2100+ results we were actually setting the RAM at DDR266 speeds, while the 2700+ results are taken at DDR333 speeds.

PCMark2002

PCMark is one of the more reliable benchmarks we use as a control in our testing because it's fast to run and gives consistent numbers for comparison.

You can see the clear advantage that the FIC AU11 has over most KT400 boards in DualChannel mode. The chipset alone, however, is not particularly fast when using a single stick of 512MB PC3200 RAM in DDR333 mode. This gives emphasis to the current DualChannel craze that's taken the performance market by storm.

Sysmark 2002

Sysmark2002, with its simulation of both Office productivity (eg Microsoft Outlook, Office etc) and Internet Content Creation (Dreamweaver, Photoshop etc) workloads, is one of our favourite benchmarks. In this case you can see that while the Nforce2 is most definitely faster in Dual Channel mode, with 3.5% and 5.8% gains in performance in Internet Content Creation and Office Productivity scores, respectively, when going from regular memory mode to DualChannel mode. Yet in this chart the AU11 is still not at the top of the performance hill.

With our 333FSB XP 2700+ chip, the gains are fairly close again when jumping to DualChannel mode.