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 all boards, memory subsystem performance is going to look awfully similar between them. 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 K8NS Pro enjoys the same performance as the nForce3 250-equipped K8N-E, something to be expected since they use the same CPU and the same core logic, with the same memory running at the same timings.
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
The K8NS Pro manages to edge out the two ASUS boards in the bandwidth test, to the tune of a third of one percent.
