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Old May 14th, 2001   #15 (permalink)
Phuzzi
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Originally posted by bobotns
There ISN'T motherboards that get more than 300 MB/s (C-Athlon). The only systems that get more than 300 are pentium 4 systems that use RAMBUS memory, they get up to 800 MB/s!!

NB: in my system, when I overclock the FSB to 150 MHz and the memory settings to Turbo, I get almost 200 MB/s.

and... your 519 MB/s are inaccurate and impossible!

No, you're quite incorrect. With the latest athlon motherboards supporting memory interleaving and a wide access to modifying other memory timings, it's easy to get well over 400Mb/s. I quickly loaded up sandra and benched my RAM to show you.

http://www.harris47.fsnet.co.uk/phuz...h_14-05-01.jpg

And that's in Win2k, after being up for a few days, so it could be even better (Benched in Sandra 2001 Pro). My ram is actually running at 133Mhz CL3, so it's performing quite well against CL2 systems. I have aggresive memory times set in the bios (4way interleave, 4k DRAM page, Enhance chip performance, etc).

As you can see, above 500Mb/s is not impossible at all. In fact, your system seems to be underperforming.. maybe time for an AMD solution?

Sys Specs:
AMD Tbird 750@1.07Ghz
Abit KT7A, 266Fsb
256Mb PC133 CL3

Last edited by Phuzzi; May 14th, 2001 at 18:42.
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