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As with the system benchmarks, we're looking for our two initial observations to hold true here. Parity with a hand tuned box of the same spec, a drop off when using the other timings. We're also looking for something else here too, within those results, parity performance from the graphics card. Time spec the 2nd most expensive graphics card in the market in the tested UltraStation, we want to know it's being used properly. Here goes.
Ouch, that Corsair at poor timings really hurts our tested 3DMark 2001 score. But, things come back to normal with the better timings. Just a tiny drop off in performance compared to the test system, but nothing bad. Maybe down to the 2.41 platform drivers in the test box, allowing a touch better memory controller performance. Who knows, pure speculation.
Excellent, a win for the Time when setup as Winbond intended (their BH-5 modules are the engine room of the Corsair sticks). It's not a big win, but it's nice to see a generic box from a big vendor setup well and working nicely. Ah, and there's the performance drop when using poor timings again.
I wont bore you with exactly the same commentary, the UltraStation is doing just fine.
No sleeping at the back, just because there's nothing interesting to talk about. I for one am glad that performance isn't abysmal. While it would be fun to beat up on Time for shipping shit, it's not fun for any consumers that will buy one. So thumbs up to Time for the good performance from the MSI motherboard, Corsair, AMD processor and the NVIDIA card on the chosen drivers. It ended up doing just how it would had an enthusiast set it up from scratch.
Before we go conclusion crazy, there's still some other stuff worth talking about first.
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