Super PC PC-100
Looking at the numbers, what really matters is the "CPU
MB/s" and "FPU MB/s" readings. As these are the benchmarks of the
RAM. What that means is basically, your throughput and how "fast" your
RAM can handle read/writes. If you look at the "FSB mHz" and "CPU
mHz" readings, these show the speed of my Front side bus and CPU,
respectively. For the record, I could get my FSB up to 110, then my
system would not boot. I believe this is due to the RAM. These numbers are
pretty good for PC-100 on any system.
Settings for PC-133
Before I ran the tests on the Mushkin PC-133, I set my FSB speed to 120 on my system
board via jumpers. ( I could not go any higher on this setting, I believe due to
either my cheap sound card or network card. I stated earlier this was a
"Real world" test, this is why I kept all of the hardware in the pc,
some people run these tests on pc’s with only video, and can get better
results from there FSB setting, but in my opinion, who runs their system with
only a video card and no sound or modem? Hence the "real world" test.)
Let’s get to the results:
Mushkin PC-133
Now here is where PC-133 shows it is king. I ran the exact same
tests. In my bios I changed the RAM specs to Cas2 and 4 way
interleaved. The difference in these settings and the ones for the PC-100,
is for performance. The Mushkin RAM is made to run at Cas2 and can run at 4 way
interleaved. The PC-100 I tested is not, it could not handle it. This is where
quality comes into play, and this is high quality RAM. Like previously, I ran my
cpu/fsb setting as high as it would go until I could not boot. I got the FSB all
the way up to 127 and could not go any further. Compare the differences in the
"CPU MB/s" and "FPU MB/s" readings on the two charts. At the
highest setting, the Mushkin PC-133 beat the Super PC PC-100 by a total of 23
MB/s on the "CPU MB/s reading and 50 MB/s on the "FPU MB/s"
reading. That is a big difference. The numbers speak for themselves. I have to
note, that in your system, results will vary if you have high quality PCI
devices that can run over the standard clock speed, your results will hopefully be better.
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