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[TheMan]

Hi, I just got a 500 Mhz. Celeron computer from my dad and it seems to be running awful slow and I used SiSoft Sandra 2001 benchmarking utility and it was horrible on the memory benchmark and not very good on the CPU benchmark. On the CPU benchmark I got: Dhrystone ALU 1170 (or so) MIPS and Whetstone FPU 570 (or so) MFLOPS. I'm not sure what they are but you guys can tell me, compared to a AMD Duron 600, 64 kB(???), KT133 which got Dhrystone ALU 1675 MIPS and Whetstone FPU 817 MFLOPS. Again I have no idea. And for the memory benchmark I got Int ALU/RAM Bandwith 45 MB/s and Float FPU/RAM Bandwith 46 MB/s compared to an AMD Duron 600, KT133, 128MB which got Int ALU/RAM Bandwith 367 MB/s and Float FPU/RAM Bandwith 400 MB/s. I find that this seems a little odd. Also when I play Q3A I get around 20 FPS on timedemo 001 and about 19 FPS on timedemo 002. My full system specs are: a 500 Mhz. Celeron CPU w/base frequency of 66Mhz. and multiplier factor of 7.5, 128 MB of SDRAM w/8 shared to video, 17 GB harddisk, TEAC CD-W54E burner, Windows Me, and I am using a 3DFX Voodoo 2 addon board. Does this seem right to all of you and if not what can I do to get it up to speed, my 200 Mhz. Pentium MMX, with 64 MB of RAM got like a 90 for both parts on the memory test so something has to be wrong. Thanks for help. By the way, my settings in Q3A are Geometric detail - Medium, Texture detail (Slider Bar) 3/4 and 640x480 res, with low sound, and only having dynamic lights and marks onwalls and sync every frame on. Also I am using 16-bit textures with bi-linear filtering.

 

[Crashman]

Your computer is simpley made from the worst of everything. What chipset does the motherboard have? The Celeron is stuck with the crappy 66MHz FSB. Intel did that on purpose to put it in the same catagory as the K6-2 for performance, so they could sell more of their more profitable PII's. Your memory is probably also set to it's slowest settings in BIOS, and it is probably the cheapest available. Your going to have to tell us the sytem specs (motherboard or system manufacturer and model, etc.) before anyone can help.

Suicide is painless...........

 

[Ncogneto]

LOL, I could start a rant about intel chips like fugger would if this was an amd system but won't. Dude Crashman is right the problem lies less in the chip and more in the chipset. I strongly suspect you have a SIS chipset seeing how you have a shared memory video card. This uses the same bus as the cpu does for accessing memory and this is why you get lousy memory bandwith. The best thing you could do would be to get a new motherboard. A second alternative would be to get yourself a pci video card and disable the onboard shared memory one if you have such a jumper or switch in bios. You already have a voodoo so a good 4 meg card should meet your needs for 2d apps. This will still not give you as good of memory bandwith as a new mobo without shared video but will help a great deal.

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[TheMan]

Yeah, my MoBo is a PC-100 M741LMRT with a SiS620 Host to PCI bridge chipset. I am using the latest version of the AMIBIOS from A.M. And I have two PC-100 64 MB RAM cards in the slots. I am going to contact the Mfr. (IPC) and have a little talk about what could help the most and maybe talk about getting a better MoBo. Thanks

 

[Crashman]

OMG an SIS chipset. A customer of mine ask me why his K6-2 366 did not perform much better than his P133. I told him it was the cheap motherboard and not to expect much for the money he paid. I personally would sell the whole thing instead of upgrading it. The money laid out comes out about the same wether you sell the old one and build a new one or upgrade the old one.

Suicide is painless...........