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Originally Posted by Wolf2000me Hey,
I honestly don't know what you mean with bios' alpha timings. But if it's the same thing as the bios' romsip table then ignore the following. |
These are sort of hidden memory timings, which u can change in bios while using VIA chipsets for socket A. As far as I know they've got nothing to do with bios' romsip table - they're just memory timings, not important enough, to be set manually (the performance increase is almost marginable).
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Originally Posted by Wolf2000me What i did hear was the this.
If you set your fsb to 166 mhz, the bios implements a more agressive romsip table. Try to overclock from that setting in Windows. I know of at least one user gaining performance that way. |
I've never overclocked my CPUs in Windows - so you mean I should use 8rdavcore or similar sowftware? Why should I bother doing this, when I don't have to that while using other mobos, e.g. 8RDA3+ rev.2.1? I'm gonna try this method anyway .... thanx, mate
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Originally Posted by Wolf2000me At any rate, i did the same test you did in super_pi. However I do get better results than you while my fsb and cpu speed are a bit lower. I am running dual channel so that might explain it. these are my results. Don't be fooled by the other results, they are at 215x12 which i don't get a 100% stable in dual channel mode.
I was in the meantime typing the stuff above, using Opera.
I'm using 2 Western Digital 160gb 8mb cache in RAID 0 on the nvraid interface. I also have 2 other disks, one on the pata and one on the silicon image. |
I've forgotten one important thing - under Wink2k everybody gets worse results than under WinXP SP1/SP2 or Win2k3 Server - these values varies from 40 sec to 1 minute (16M). And, to be honest, I'm also running in dual channel mode with those 2x512MB mem sticks (FSB222 stable, FSB225 stable enough to count SuperPI 16M).
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Originally Posted by Wolf2000me Btw, do you get the same OC results with the same cpu in all nforce2 boards you used? I assume you use at least once the same cpu when you switched mobos. |
Yes, it's my Athlon XP-M 2500+ 1.45v, L12 mod done - all the other tests (Sandra 2004, 3DMark 2001SE, Everest) were done at 11x200.
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Originally Posted by Wolf2000me Also, if the bios' alpha timings are not the same as the romsip, could you give a short explanation and a link? |
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Originally Posted by Wolf2000me My previous rig was an abit kr7a-raid with a mobile 2400 so that won't be much of a fair comparison.
I don't know if you tried the integrated firewall? My findings with it are a bit on the negative side. While browsing with Opera it can slow down any loading website for even 30 seconds. |
I've been using Sygate Personal Firewall for more than two years so far and it doesn't really absorb to mouch of the system's resources. Going back to my test - I always turn everyting off, leaving only about 16-17 system processes activated.
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Originally Posted by Wolf2000me The rest of my system is in my sig, i'm using winxp pro sp1.
I also may have more info, but then ask because nothing really pops in mind.
Cheers dude
Oh and I too am happy with the board. It's brought me the performance I wanted without spending too much. Of course any performance gained is gladly taken |
If I come across something interesting, I'll let everybody know.
Shame I'm not into bios editing and Merlin ist too busy these days, to do something in this case.
Cheers mate
PS. I don't do that normally, but I think I will answer the other posts in a separate one.