Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 @ 3GHz (9x333MHz) Motherboard: GIGABYTE P35-DQ6 (Supplied by GIGABYTE) Hard Disk: 500GB Seagate 7200.9 (Supplied by Seagate Australia) Graphics Card: MSI GeForce 8800GTS 640MB (Supplied by MSI) Cooling: GIGABYTE 3D Galaxy II (Supplied by GIGABYTE) Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Drivers: Intel INF 8.3.1.1009, Forceware 163.21
Our test system is identical to the one used in the PC2-6400 test setup, this time however we are using the PC2-9200 memory and the Geil. For our stock setup we used 800MHz memory dividers.
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Thanks to Patriot’s higher clock speeds than the Geil, it managed to beat it out on overclocked speeds and manages to hold its own in stock as well, even though it’s slightly higher timed.