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which is best 10x200 or 13x166 ?

Jay" badcompany wrote:
which is best 10x200 or 13x166 ?

Difficult to answer.

If your RAM is running at the same speed as the FSB, I would suggest that on
average, they'd be about the same.

Just checked the AMD processors config info... the 200MHz FSB version of the
3000+ runs at 200MHz * 10.5, and the 166MHz FSB version at 166MHz*13.

So there's your answer, on average the 200MHz*10 option will be a tad slower
(maybe 5% or so).

This is dependant on your application... bandwidth limited applications will
likely be faster on the 200MHz*10 config.

Ben
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10x200 because your ram will access faster

Allen
"Jay" badcompany"barrysworld.com wrote in message
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which is best 10x200 or 13x166 ?

Allen King Jr. wrote:
10x200 because your ram will access faster

What if you need to do only calculations and very little memory access?

I wrote a program at college once that was about 5 lines long, used 3-4
variables and could take anything from milliseconds to millions of years to
execute depending on the initial values of those variables, which could be
8bit. I think it was a demonstration of complexity. That program would be
able to run without practically no access to RAM, it's CPU limited.

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Can you try 11 x 200 or 10.5 x 200 ?

"Jay" badcompany"barrysworld.com wrote in message
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which is best 10x200 or 13x166 ?

Do they come to the same gross MHz ?
If so, then the higher FSB will get you more performance/bandwidth
If not, use memtest and Sandra to test bandwidth.


"Nanga Parbat" wrote in message
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"Jay" badcompany"barrysworld.com wrote:

which is best 10x200 or 13x166 ?

In most cases 13x166 (=2158) will score better. Only applications that
depends heavily on memory bandwidth may run slightly faster at 10x200
(=2000).

Nanga