Memory Tests
The memory tests are designed to highlight the general performance of the memory subsystem. With the memory controller on the processor with Athlon 64 and the same processor in use for both boards, memory subsystem performance is going to look awfully similar between the two. We use a trio of tests to analyse said performance, Pifast is up first. It's our own custom test to 10M decimal places.Pifast
The K8N-E is roughly half a second faster than the older K8V, which can be crucial if you're going for that Pifast world record, but it's within a margin of error otherwise. Identical performance and exactly what's expected.
ScienceMark 2.0 - Access Latency
Access latency forms one part of the multi-faceted examination into memory performance. ScienceMark 2.0 can measure it.
Using the same memory controller on the same CPU with memory at the same timings, the above graph isn't a huge surprise. Access latency doesn't change with the chipset on Athlon 64.
ScienceMark 2.0 - Memory Bandwidth
Coincidentally (really, memory bandwidth is rarely measured identically twice in a row on the same system, never mind as the average of three runs on two different motherboards), bandwidth is identical between the two boards too.
