Sandra mem benchmark

[Guest]

My system is benchmarking some OUTSTANDING numbers in every single area EXCEPT the "memory benchmark" aspect which I dont understand as the chip is brand new Xerox 256MB PC133

I am getting:
Integer Stream (Int) ALU/RAM = 280 MB
Float FPU/RAM = 290 MB

*These numbers are significantly lower than they should be according to the posted system specs by Sisoft Sandra. For Example a Duron 600 gets 367/400 and the system I HAVE an Athlon 1ghz gets 434/521 so I am highly confused - I will post all my system information and if anyone could provide assistance (is it an errant BIOS setting ??) I have banks set at SDRAM 8/10ns - I would appreciate it GREATLY!

ABIT KT7-RAID
AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1Ghz
256MB SD-PC133 (Xerox brand as reported by Sandra)
40GB ULTRA/ATA100 Western Digital
Onboard ULTRA/ATA100 RAID Controller (Highpoint 370)
GeForce2 MX (Hercules) display adapter 4X-AGP
SB Live! PCI card
(2) Generic 100MB Network Controllers PCI
9300i HP CD-Writer 10x CD-Recorder

This all runs in a brand new ultracooled 300W Midtower Case
Any help/comments appreciated!

 

[ledzepp98]

i'm not familiar with the abit bios but there is probably a setting referring to bank interleave (maybe in something like advanced chipset features?). if it is an option set it to 4-way interleave or there might be a setting to set it to spd. try that as i had the same problems with my system (900 t-bird on ep-8kta+ mobo) and that setting cleared it up.

 

[Guest]

thx for the info

along with that, I checked out http://go.to/kt7faq which had some pointers on my specific motherboard and now my scores exceed SiSoft's benchmarks for an Athlon 1ghz so I am happy 😛 (there were several things in the bios I had to change - about 8 in all which now give me the scores I was looking for)

 

[ledzepp98]

glad to hear, was i at least on point with my recommendation?

 

[Guest]

yes indeed,

4-way interleave was one of the pieces to the puzzle

thx again