Run memtest86 to see what your memory bandwidth is.
You can also compare a tight loop ala bogomips with dirtying about as many
pages as you have cache (memtest86 can find this), with dirtying more pages
than you have cache in a big evil loop.
If this shows that your problem ISN'T memory bandwidth, then you'll have
learned something.
> The bummer is that the memory subsystem sucks doggy doo doo on the former.
> Is this a motherboard problem or do the newer celerons suck that bad on
> purpose?
All the celerons I know about have a 66 mhz front side bus speed. (Actually
there was a notebook version with a 100mhz fsb, but no desktop ones I know
of.) It's a totally artificial limitation to get you to buy a real Pentium
III. Intel crippling its low-end to avoid hurting the high end. (They let
AMD do that for them. :)
I've got links bookmarked about this somewhere. You can probably find it on
Tom's Hardware, or check google...
> Check out the bandwidth stuff, the second row should be faster but isn't:
Yup. Blame Intel's marketing department. This isn't a SIS problem, that's
pure Intel's crippling of the DeCeleron...
Rob
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