Review of Geil Black Dragon DDR2 1066MHz dual channel kit

Page 9 - Performance: Crysis, World in Conflict

Since the memory intended mostly for gamers and enthusiasts (of which many are gamers too, or at least use the new heavy 3D games as benchmarks), there was just no way around including the following two gaming tests. They will show what a fast memory does for a modern machine.

Crysis

The very famous game that became a symbolic for its high high resource demand. The Crysis graphics are claimed to be the most realistic ones ever and for enjoying them at their best you need high class dual or quad core processor, top-notch video card and lots of memory.

Results show that at 1680x1050 and High detail settings, without Antialiasing or Anistropic Filtering, with AMD Radeon HD 4890 1GB GDDR5, there is definite difference between 2GB and 4GB of memory. So overall despite the lower volume, Geil Black Dragon DDR2 1066 is performing similarly at all three frequencies, the difference is in only the minimal amount of frames per second, which considering the limited volume of 2GB is quite normal.

World in Conflict

The marvelous RTS from Entertainment impresses with unsurpassed control over the units you control. The realistic and vast options to interact with the terrain and the need of good tactical head are just few of the things that made it one of the best game s of the past year. The game is very appropriate for our tests, using DirectX 10 effects, soft particles, HDR smoke, awesome explosions and lighting effects. Because of the uncomfortable ways to test the recorded timedemo in World in Conflict, we used the integrated benchmark that is well known for its CPU dependence. Let's see if it is affected by memory too:

Here the difference was nonexistent. The memory is just fast enough at even 800MHz and 5-5-5-15, in order to supply the CPU with the maximum it can handle, so the potential of Geil Black Dragon DDR2 1066 is never fully utilized while running at 800MHz.