Is my performance any good ?

[zabomb4163]

more pics below

[zabomb4163]

CPU

[OC Detective]

Hang on while I get my magnifying glass.........

[OC Detective]

Oh and I assume that this is NOT the Intel chip you have in your sig!

[zabomb4163]

the intel chip in my sig is my machine at work.

this is just a home machine i recently built for fun.

[Yodums]

OK, try uploading full size images to the following site and give us the address: theforumisdown.com or either give us the numbers. We can't possibly see the numbers on those images. Oh, and also the specs on the system: CPU, Mobo, Ram + Timings, and FSB.

Yodums

[zabomb4163]

Athlon 1600XP
Biostar M7VIQ
TNT2-pro
pc2100 kindston DDR
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Sandra
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RAM Int bufferedaEMMX/aSSE Bandwidth - 1742 MS/s
RAM Float Buffered aEMMX/aSSE Bandwidth- 1664 MB/s
Dhrystone ALU 5265 MIPS
Whetstone FPU- 2114
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3Dmark- 2053 (slow graphics card, will be upgrading to geforce4 soon..apparently i am #3 on madonion with this setup though)

[Yodums]

Your performance seems right for a stock system. Anything else you're looking for?

[quegyboe]

What chipset is on your motherboard? Your bandwidth seems a little slow...I used to get about 2062/1998 with a Duron 1.2Ghz / 256MB PC2100 bumped up to a 133 (266) FSB!

[zabomb4163]

via kt-266 - (i get more bandwidth than what sandra says the chipset is supposed to get)

[quegyboe]

KT266 or KT266a?

[zabomb4163]

via KT266/A, KT333 chipset (according to sandra)

[zabomb4163]

ahhhhhh. CRAP. sandra says .........266A gets

RAM Int bufferedaEMMX/aSSE Bandwidth - 1925 MS/s
RAM Float Buffered aEMMX/aSSE Bandwidth- 1767 MB/s

how do i fix it. now that i realize i have a problem. (and yes my timings are at 2 everything except for that 5)

[[OC]Lucifer]

Now you see the problem. KT chipsets always have sucky memory bandwidth. There is no way to fix it, but you can compensate some by cranking the FSB. I should know, I am running a kt333 machine here.

[Bon3thugz43v3r]

Originally posted by OC Detective
Hang on while I get my magnifying glass.........

LOL!!!!! :clap: :clap:

[zabomb4163]

sandra says the kt266a can get the performance i quoted earlier. how do you achieve that ?

[zabomb4163]

*bump*

[[OC]Lucifer]

What Cas Latency are you running at? I believe the bench is at 2 Cas Latency, so if you are running 2.5, that might make the difference.

[zabomb4163]

I'm running Cas2

[[OC]Lucifer]

Probably benched with a more powerful system, then.

[zabomb4163]

=/.....dude that is what i trying to find out. WHY it was more powerful. what else could i have possibly meant?

can any of the following affect sandra cooling, hard drive, power supply, memory brand, video card, or other settings

[[OC]Lucifer]

Give you higher mem bandwidth results. Which was what I was getting at before. They probably used a faster cpu.

[zabomb4163]

faster cpu gives you more memory bandwidth ???

i didnt know that

[[OC]Lucifer]

And higher FSB is the easiest way to get more memory bandwidth.

[james.miller]

Originally posted by zabomb4163
faster cpu gives you more memory bandwidth ???

i didnt know that

yes it does.
posted by quegyboe
What chipset is on your motherboard? Your bandwidth seems a little slow...I used to get about 2062/1998 with a Duron 1.2Ghz / 256MB PC2100 bumped up to a 133 (266) FSB!

really? 2gb/sec from a 2.1gb/sec ram? what board was that on? dont tell me it was your k7s5a?
thats 95% effeciancy. well done - thats damn near impossible - at least with the k7s5a