Saturday I did something utterly strange.
I ordered 4GB of PC2100 for my Athlon64 desktop (scan.co.uk's today
only page over the weekend, 2GB Apacer(I think) PC2100 dimms bundled
with Asaka heatspreaders for £57/ea, bargain of the decade right there)
said PC2100 is presently in the A64, running at 160Mhz (at not
brilliant timings, but hey, paging has been told where to get off)
http://chryx.shacknet.nu/memreport.png (memory latency is an
Opteron'ish 52ns on a 512byte stride, measured by sciencemark)
it POSTS at those timings at 200Mhz, makes me wish I had a DFI
Lanparty so I could feed it 3.2v or so
as it stands I've lost ~200 points in 3dmark 2003 relative to the
Corsair PC3200LL I was using previously, so the gaming performance is
there (and BF2 will stop hitching with high quality textures, hooray)
in related news, notice how windows isn't seeing all of the ram (PCI-
E addressing eats a chunk and so on) - CPU-Z is even more confused
and seeing less ram than windows, wtf!
the PAE switch does nothing, even with the 'S/W memory address range
remapping' thing in the bios toggled that's supposed to shuffle the
PCI-E addressing out of the first 32bits of address range.
Suggestions?
Windows XP x64 is on the table as a last resort, I'd need new TV and
sound cards (WinTV PCI FM and GametheaterXP, no x64 drivers for
either, doesn't look like they're coming either :(), so a PAE based
solution would be preferable in the short term, anyone?
-_-_
James Boswell
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