if it was memory contention, i would find it odd that the newer m/b would be
slower with an identical setup though. what's your "cpuinfo" show????? does
the bios have an os-type setting, or is there an included cd with setup
utilities???
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Chris Cull
Compaq Computer Corp.
Americas Communications, Manager
-----Original Message-----
From: Johan Kullstam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 5:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can a SMP MB be nearly half as fast as another with same
CPUs an
Jean-Michel Merliot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I experiment something strange, maybe not SMP related,
> please excuse me if I'm off-topic...
>
> I bought a Micronics Helios SMP dual PII/PIII mb at a good
> price to replace my DK440LX.
>
> I just exchanged the two MB, kept same CPUs and same
> memory. ( waiting for PIIIs )
>
> I use it with Seti@home to have it do something when I'm not here.
>
> With the DK440LX, I computed a work unit in around 15 hours.
>
> With the Helios one, it's around 23 hours a work unit.
>
> Is it at all possible some initialisations are not done on
> the cpus by the MB at boot ( cache enabling or something the
> like ) which may explain that phenomenon ?
that could very well be. it may also be simple memory contention. my
quad box takes 32 hours to process four simultaneous setiathome blocks
but 26 hours to do one. i don't know why this got so much worse since
the new mobo is supposedly better.
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J o h a n K u l l s t a m
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