• ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe

• AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2.4Ghz AM2 Dual Core Processor

• 2 SATA Hard drives (120gb/250gb)

• 2 DVD RW's

• Prime95-Dual (1 for each processor)

• SiSoftware Sandra Pro Home 2007 ver 2007.6.10.98

Mobo Info

RAM

SPD

Stock Bandwidth

Stock Latency

    During the first part of the testing phase of the FireStix, my goal was to see how high I could get the RAM to run and still be stable at spec speeds. I was able to get the RAM up to 1060Mhz, but while running Prime95 it would crash out. So from that point, I started my trek down to find a stable point, which was 920MHz with the timings at 4-4-4-12 and the volts at 2.1. Prime95 ran at this setting for over 8hrs with no errors.  920 is a respectable number in my book for 800Mhz RAM with the given spec settings.

920Mhz

920Mhz Mem BW

920Mhz Mem Lat

1060Mhz

1060Mhz Mem BW

1060 Mem Lat

    Now it's time to crank up the juice. Maxing out all of my voltages and the RAM volts at 2.5v, I was able to boot the system at 1120Mhz, but once again Prime95 crapped out. After some more setting changes I found a stable setting of 1060Mhz. I then ran Prime95 for 14hrs and no issues came up. Yes, it's true... I was away from my computer that long. Of course, most of it was sleeping:). This is some serious power and some serious RAM with awesome results; just to be able to boot at 1120Mhz is awesome and run stable on my machine at 1060Mhz is fantastic. WHEW! Now I'm tired.

1120Mhz Mem BW

1120Mhz Mem Lat

Prime95

    So, on to something a little less stressful for the FireStix since I had them smoking in the last set of tests. I changed the timings to 5-5-5-18 and set jumped right to 1120Mhz. Next, I fired up Prime95 once and this time the test ran for 17hrs 53mins with results of zero errors and zero warnings. That's over 17hrs of Prime95 running on each core using Blend, which maxes out the memory, with no errors and warnings. Now that is very impressive! I tried to get the RAM to 1200Mhz but didn't have any luck at it; I'm not sure if the limit was reached on the RAM or the CPU.

    Now I know I was throwing around a lot of numbers and settings in this review, and it can be confusing - even to me, and I wrote it. So I made this simple little chart to clean things up and remove some confusion.

Timing	Volts	Mhz	Stable
4-4-4-12	2.1/2.2	920/960	Yes
4-4-4-12	2.5	1060	Yes
4-4-4-12	2.5	1120	No
5-5-5-18	2.3	1100	Yes
5-5-5-18	2.3	1120	Yes
5-5-5-18	2.5	1180	Yes