How do I speed up my memory bandwidth? (Essential when play Q3 or UT online)

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NesuD

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If you want to stop windows from hitting the swapfile insert the line conservativeswapfileusage=1 in the system.ini file under [386enh] this will force windows to use much more of the physical ram before going to the swap file with 256 meg of ram and this setting I need to open 19 instances od IE be fore winblows starts using the swapfile. you can moniter current ram and swapfile usage with cacheman
 

Madcowz

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I own a CUSL2 and I believe this setting is the same as bank interleave on those VIA chipset mobo's but I'm not quite sure... can anyone clarify this?:
SDRAM Page Closing Policy -> Choices: One Bank / All Banks
Which setting would be ideal?

And this one...

SDRAM Data Driving Mode -> Choices: Normal / Strong
I have 3 sticks of 128MB PC133 SDRAM... 2 Crucial CL2, and 1 Mushkin rev 2

Oh and while I'm at it, can someone explain this one:
PCI Latency Timer
Choices: "0-255", 32 default - Some say lower is better and others say higher :confused:... someone once threw in the number 64 as the optimal setting
 

chuckieland

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it also depend on what brand of memory stick do you have and what kind of chipset on the motherboard and what cpu you are using
for my Althon Classic 700mhz with VIA KX133chipset and 256mb PC133 Samsung memory @CS3.
Sandra2000pro
cpu/memory bandwidth 409mb/s
FPU/Memory Bandwidth 473mb/s
when i overclock that to 721mhz
CPU/Memory bandwidth 422mb/s
FPU/memroy bandwidth 488mb/s
sightly improvement
and recently I sold my Samsung and purchase two 128mb Semiens Infineon PC133mhz
@700mhz CS3
CPU/memory bandwidth 403mb/s
FPU/memory bandwidth 467mb/s

700mhz@CS2
CPU/Memory Bandwidth 426mb/s
FPU/memory Bandwidth 527mb/s
big increase in proformance