Memory Performance
I have a Thunderbird 1ghz with 384mb of pc 133 ram. I am having a problem with the performance of my ram. When I run the performance benchmark in SiSoft Sandra I get marks that look like this. Int ALU/RAM Bandwidth 374 MB/s Float FPU/RAM Bandwidth 398 MB/s The reference system that I'm using is an Athlon 1ghz KT133 ...
I have a Thunderbird 1ghz with 384mb of pc 133 ram. I am having a problem with the performance of my ram. When I run the performance benchmark in SiSoft Sandra I get marks that look like this.
Int ALU/RAM Bandwidth 374 MB/s
Float FPU/RAM Bandwidth 398 MB/s
The reference system that I'm using is an Athlon 1ghz KT133, w/256MB
It posts numbers that look like this
Int ALU/RAM Bandwidth 434 MB/s
Float FPU/RAM Bandwidth 521 MB/s
Now I really wouldn't have a problem with the difference in these numbers if hadn't noticed that my system wasn't running up to par. My page file size is set to 64mb. I think that this is the optimal setting because the peak under performance in the task manager comes close to the limit but doesn't exceed it.
I have no idea of what else to do in order to get the memory running like it should. If any one can give me any suggestions on how I could increase the performance that would be great.
Int ALU/RAM Bandwidth 374 MB/s
Float FPU/RAM Bandwidth 398 MB/s
The reference system that I'm using is an Athlon 1ghz KT133, w/256MB
It posts numbers that look like this
Int ALU/RAM Bandwidth 434 MB/s
Float FPU/RAM Bandwidth 521 MB/s
Now I really wouldn't have a problem with the difference in these numbers if hadn't noticed that my system wasn't running up to par. My page file size is set to 64mb. I think that this is the optimal setting because the peak under performance in the task manager comes close to the limit but doesn't exceed it.
I have no idea of what else to do in order to get the memory running like it should. If any one can give me any suggestions on how I could increase the performance that would be great.
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I am running WIn2k. I read that you want your page file to be as small as possible but not so small that your applications exceed the size. I did have it at 500mb, after I switched it to 64mb I noticed a dramatic increase in the performance. With the page file so low I guess that the system accesses the RAM sooner (I read this and I'm not to sure how it works.) I will change it to 300mb and see if that gives me better or worse performance.
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Soyo K7VTA
T-bird 1ghz
384mb pc 133
GeForce2 GTS 64mb ddr
Maxtor 30gb 7200
Western Digital 30gb 7200
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Soyo K7VTA
T-bird 1ghz
384mb pc 133
GeForce2 GTS 64mb ddr
Maxtor 30gb 7200
Western Digital 30gb 7200
