Is there a way to get good memory performance from the K7T Pro2-a?

[SilverBack]

The board rocks in everything except memory performance.
Sandra reports a full 1/3 performance loss to the KT7 from ABit.

 

[mopar360]

Do you have it set to Auto(yes) in the Bios? My Sandra scores went up almost 100 points after swiching to auto(yes) from having it manually set to 133 cas 2. Its now at 442/542, dont know if thats any good of not.

 

[slvrbullet]

Three questions. If you set the memory to autodetect and raise to FSB to say 105 will the memory setting go up by 5 as well? For instance. I have PC133 so the autodetect should set the memory clock at 133. If I raise the FSB to 105 will the memory then be raised to 108? If you set the memory to autodetect can you then go in and change the cl timing without changing the other settings?

Lastly, where can I get Sysoft Sandra and any other testing software I might need to get readings off of my computer as I change settings?

 

[SilverBack]

When you change the FSB, it's multiplied by the cpu's clock generator.
For example
A 1 GHZ TBird is a "10" clock. If you raise the fsb from 100 to 105 this is what happens.
The cpu runs at 10x105=1050 MHz
Also if the memory was PC133 it then goes to 133+5=138MHz.

SiSoft Sandra can be found at http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.htm

I particularly like using Wintune for fast benchmarking to see the differences when changing system settings. It can be found here http://www.winmag.com/scripts/download.pl/wintune/wintune_43.exe

My wintune results:

CPU (1) AMD Athlon@1313 MHz
Video Board NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra
Video Mode 1024x768@16bits/pixel
RAM 256 MB
OS Windows 98 4.10.2222 A

Area Tested Value
CPU Integer.............. 4004.181 MIPS
CPU Floating Point....... 1646.901 MFLOPS
Video(2D)................ 175.3078 MPixels/s
Direct3D................. 592.0389 MPixels/s
OpenGL................... 488.3469 MPixels/s
Memory................... 3324.587 MB/s
Cached Disk.............. 182.1168 MB/s
Uncached Disk............ 7.280894 MB/s

In my example for my pc:

12.5 clock x 105 system bus = 1313Mhz
memory is at 133 so my ram is running at 138MHz