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Subject: Re: Memory speed (was Re: _big_ IDE disks?)
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> >The triton-1 machine running 2.1.7 consistently showed ~74MB/sec, while
> >the natoma p6-200 systems running ecc showed ~80MB/sec (both
> >just-before-lite2-current and 2.2 from about 1/26.)
> >
> >the triton-2 machines (1 w/96MB edo, the other with 64MB fpm) both showed
> >rates ~117MB when the systems were otherwise unloaded.  These machines
> >both were running 2.2 from yesterday morning.
> 
> Not good :-).  I have Triton-1 (ASUS P55TP4XE) with non-EDO RAM and the
> benchmark runs at about 119.2MB/sec (1MB = 1048576).

Hmm, that's my motherboard, so I should be seeing similar results.

Which BIOS are you using, and which revision of the motherboard?

> >These results are with the standard bios parameters for 60ns memory.
> >There are a few memory knobs besides normal timing in the p6np5 bios but I
> >haven't experimented.  I suppose Rod Grimes would know what the optimal
> >settings are :)
> 
> I use the standard knobs with everything turned up high.  An x-2-2-2
> write burst cycle is most important for this benchmark.

I'm not sure what mine is set to.   I'll have to go check, and get back
to you on it.



Nate