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Q. Award BIOS -- Optimising chipset setup ?
Hi.
One of my PCs is an oldie and I want to get the maximum speed out of it without upgrading the HW. I could use some advice about tweaking the chipset settings... Hardware ======== Mobo: ASUS TX97_XE (built-in L2 cache: 512K Pipelined Burst SRAM) CPU : AMD K6 233 MHz (L1 cache: 64K, L2 cache: none) BIOS : Award v4.51PG 11/24/98-82430TX-TX97_XE Chipset: Intel Corporation 82439TX 430TX System Controller Bus(es): ISA PCI USB i2c/SMBus Maximum FSB Speed / Max Memory Speed : 1x 66MHz / 1x 66MHz RAM : 256M -- 2x DIMM: Micron 16LSDT1664AG-662C7 2016E104 128MB 16x(8Mx8) SDRAM PC100-333-7512 (CL3 upto 100MHz) (CL2 upto 67MHz) System SMBus Controller 1 Model : Intel PIIX4 SMBus / compatible Speed : 16kHz Main OS: Win XP SP1 Current chipset settings: ======================== Auto configuration : Disabled DRAM Read Burst Timing : x222 DRAM Write Burst Timing : x222 DRAM R/W Leadoff Timing : 10T/6T DRAM RAS# Precharge Time : 3T Refresh RAS# Assertion : 4T Fast EDO Lead Off : Disabled Speculative Leadoff : Disabled SDRAM RAS# Timing : 3/4/7 SDRAM CAS# Latency : 2T SDRAM Speculative Read : Enabled Passive Release : Enabled Delayed Transaction : Disabled 16-bit I/O Recovery Time : 4 BUSCLK 8-bit I/O Recovery Time : 8 BUSCLK Video BIOS Cacheable : Enabled Memory Hole At Address : None What values will get me the maximum performance while keeping the system stable? Or perhaps there's a prog like Sandra out there which could suggest values based on my HW; or like RAMSETUP in PC-DOS, which tries all configurations in "learning" mode and picks the best one automatically? .... or is this too much to ask? 0) Any assistance appreciated. Thanks. === Mark T. |
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About the only thing you can do if set the bus speed to 75 and see if it
works. I have had good results in the past running AMD chips at 75mh bus speed. You could also try upping the multiplier to 4. Have not had too much luck with this in the past. Good Luck .. "Mr. X" wrote in message om... Hi. One of my PCs is an oldie and I want to get the maximum speed out of it without upgrading the HW. I could use some advice about tweaking the chipset settings... Hardware ======== Mobo: ASUS TX97_XE (built-in L2 cache: 512K Pipelined Burst SRAM) CPU : AMD K6 233 MHz (L1 cache: 64K, L2 cache: none) BIOS : Award v4.51PG 11/24/98-82430TX-TX97_XE Chipset: Intel Corporation 82439TX 430TX System Controller Bus(es): ISA PCI USB i2c/SMBus Maximum FSB Speed / Max Memory Speed : 1x 66MHz / 1x 66MHz RAM : 256M -- 2x DIMM: Micron 16LSDT1664AG-662C7 2016E104 128MB 16x(8Mx8) SDRAM PC100-333-7512 (CL3 upto 100MHz) (CL2 upto 67MHz) System SMBus Controller 1 Model : Intel PIIX4 SMBus / compatible Speed : 16kHz Main OS: Win XP SP1 Current chipset settings: ======================== Auto configuration : Disabled DRAM Read Burst Timing : x222 DRAM Write Burst Timing : x222 DRAM R/W Leadoff Timing : 10T/6T DRAM RAS# Precharge Time : 3T Refresh RAS# Assertion : 4T Fast EDO Lead Off : Disabled Speculative Leadoff : Disabled SDRAM RAS# Timing : 3/4/7 SDRAM CAS# Latency : 2T SDRAM Speculative Read : Enabled Passive Release : Enabled Delayed Transaction : Disabled 16-bit I/O Recovery Time : 4 BUSCLK 8-bit I/O Recovery Time : 8 BUSCLK Video BIOS Cacheable : Enabled Memory Hole At Address : None What values will get me the maximum performance while keeping the system stable? Or perhaps there's a prog like Sandra out there which could suggest values based on my HW; or like RAMSETUP in PC-DOS, which tries all configurations in "learning" mode and picks the best one automatically? ... or is this too much to ask? 0) Any assistance appreciated. Thanks. === Mark T. |
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"Mr. X" wrote in message
om... Hi. One of my PCs is an oldie and I want to get the maximum speed out of it without upgrading the HW. I could use some advice about tweaking the chipset settings... It's as optimised as it's going to get. Did you expect to run Doom III on that? |
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No, not Doom III, Midtown Madness or even the Simms...
But I can't add more RAM (already at 256M max), and the only thing I could replace is the current CPU (AMD K6 233MHz) for an AMD K6-3 400 MHz (fastest that runs on mobo); but I haven't been able to find one yet... So tweaking the chipset is about all I can do to squeeze the most power (if you can call it that) out of that sys. But thanks anyway. M.T. "Darkfalz" wrote in message ... "Mr. X" wrote in message om... Hi. One of my PCs is an oldie and I want to get the maximum speed out of it without upgrading the HW. I could use some advice about tweaking the chipset settings... It's as optimised as it's going to get. Did you expect to run Doom III on that? |
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