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From: "Kenneth P. Stox" <ken@stox.pr.mcs.net>
To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Memory speed of P6-200 (256k)
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On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  * From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com>
> 
>  * > > 2097152000 bytes transferred in 27.298230 secs (76823735 bytes/sec)
>  * > > The motherboard is a P6NP5 (Natoma chipset) with 64 MB EDO-RAM.
> 
>  * > This is from my P6NP5:
>  * > 2097152000 bytes transferred in 25.741665 secs (81469167 bytes/sec)      
>  * 
>  * While we're at it, here are the results fom my Intel 440FX(Natoma) P6-200
>  * 2097152000 bytes transferred in 24 secs (87381333 bytes/sec)
>  * 
>  * My first generation PPro 150 from Digital only musters ~60MB/s..
> 
> Hmm, how come my new P6NP5 with P6-200 and 96MB RAM (parity mode) can
> give me only about:
> 
> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1000
> 1000+0 records in
> 1000+0 records out
> 1048576000 bytes transferred in 18.359226 secs (57114390 bytes/sec)

Double Hmmm....... My P5STE (512KB Cache, 430HX)  with a P5-120 and 64MB
EDO RAM, 3.0 current as of 2/10/97:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1000
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes transferred in 10.875472 secs (96416596 bytes/sec)

Am I seeing things ?

-Ken Stox
 ken@stox.pr.mcs.net