>Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 14:08:16 -0700 >From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>on 10/26/02 12:12 PM, Robert Easton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> yes you can get 128MB dimms for this machine, for the "interleaving" part >> there's a bunch of anecdotal evidence that this doesn't really increase the >> speed of the machine all that much, if at all. > >I ran Norton Systemworks bench test on this machine, comaring interleaved >and non-interleaved RAM. The difference was quite small, on the order of 1%. >As RA mentioned, you could get L2 cache to speed it up, if you don't have it >already. You might find a 256K L2 cache stick being given away somewhere (if >I had 1 I'd give it to you). 1mb L2 cache will cost $20 or so, and my >benchmark tests showed that this was a 10 to 15% improvement in speed over >the 256K cache. >For the money, a G3 upgrade is a much better deal. New G3 upgrades for these >machines have sold for a little as $75, and you can probably pick up a used >one for that much or less. Does Norton's test get out of the cache much with its CPU test? If not, it won't detect a difference in RAM performance. Other benchmarks such as MacBench and the RAM bandwidth tests such as RAMometer and one that's just called Memory Bandwidth seem to detect closer to a 10 - 15% difference in performance with interleaved RAM. Of course, even if there is a real 10 - 15% difference in performance, I don't know if that would be noticeable to a user. Jeff Walther -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:pci-powermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
