Need Quick Advise of These Sandra Scores

[SeaHarp]

I just downloaded Sandra and ran a few test, but honestly have no Idea if these scores are above or below normal. If you think I need to make adjustments, please advise

1.2 t-bird: 10x139=1.39
1.8 v
3.5 core volts

dhrystone=3913
wheystone=1920

harddrive:
39,490

memory
551/587

Also, how do you find out how fast and what cas your ram is running at?

Thanks--Chris

 

[shiznut123]

Those are some great scores. I believe the memory info is in mainboard info in sandra. I don't know about the cas settings though.

 

[ottawanker]

Your memory scores seem a bit low.. have you changed the ram timings to turbo, turned on 4 way interleaving, etc., etc.? You should be able to get about 585/620 Ram scores in sandra with a setup like that...

 

[gjwild]

Everthing looks great except for maybe the memory scores like ottawanker suggested.Nice system and you will improve the memory scores with a little tweaking....

 

[arod324]

Your harddrive scores are nearly twice mine .... are you using ide raid or scsi?

 

[bacillus]

<< are you using ide raid or scsi? >>


I'm pretty sure he's using raid!

 

[gtd2000]

<< I just downloaded Sandra and ran a few test, but honestly have no Idea if these scores are above or below normal. If you think I need to make adjustments, please advise >>



*cough*

Well for the benchmarks in Sandra it should show you if you are higher or lower
Hint...look at the information below your scores
No flame intended

 

[SeaHarp]

gtd

dont worry even if flame was intended, I dont take any of this too seriously anyway. The score below mine are all compared to different cpu's. I'm more curious about comparing apples to apples, not apples to turtles.

Thanks for the input. I have my settings set at fast for the ram. I guess I'll try turbo. Any other tweaks I should make? btw..it is a raid set up.

 

[Antza]

I don?t think your RAM scores are really that low? setting the speed to turbo might enhance them a bit, though. What kind of mobo are you using, anyway?

For the CAS (Column Access Strobe) Latency, it is (roughly put) a number that refers to a ratio between memory access time and clock cycle time. You can count it by dividing the memory column access time by the clock frequency, and rounding the result upwards to the next whole integer.

Example:
Your Memory Column Access time is 25 nanosecs, and the Length of your clock cycle is 15 nanosecs (Your bus speed being 66.67 MHZ as (1/66.67)*10^6 is approximately 1.5*10^-8).

25ns / 15 ns = 1.67, so your memory CAS Latency must be 2.

If you?re using a 100MHz bus, which means your Clock cycle length is 10 ns, the Latency is:
25ns / 10 ns = 2.5, so your memory CAS Latency must now be 3.

CAS(column access latency), RAS(Row access latency) and tBS(I don't really know what the universal term is, in this with tBS I mean the delay(time) to switch between memory banks) are all definitions of the SDRAM. As bus clock frequencies are at least 100MHz(even for the stinkin' celeron) today, the CAS latency is usually not a problem, but because the maximum CAS setting is three, slow memory can theoretically sometimes restrics bus overclocking.

 

[Antza]

Argh... sorry about the last: the CAS means of course Column Access strobe and RAS the Row Access Strobe.

 

[gtd2000]

For example my Duron 700 running with a 133FSB gets 476/533 whereas a 1Ghz TB gets 434/521 (presumably at 100FSB)

My Duron 700 with 100FSB gets 446/507 versus TB 1Ghz with 434/521 so by comparison it's not far out - thats pretty much an apples to apples comparison. I believe the memory benchmark tests the mainboard and RAM more than the CPU.

The main setting which could really boost your scores would be the Host CLK (FSB) + PCI CLK but I think your ram would be over the limit?? - running at 100FSB with Host CLK + PCI and Turbo settings using 2-2-2 = RAM at 143Mhz
I'm not sure what it would be if you are running at 139FSB already? 182Mhz?
Anybody?

 

[SeaHarp]

WOW

I hate to sound so ignorant but all of that went right over my head. This is all new to me. I probably should do some more reading so I understand a liitle better. Running the test was simple, understanding them is quite a bit different.

 

[dxkj]

my drive benchmarks for Sandra are like 43,000 .... I dont know if that is good or not, it seems to blow the drives it compares it to out of the water though....... my memory scores is a little below 600..... and my processor score is identical to an athlong 1ghz (go figure, Im running an 850@980....

what hard drives are you using for 39,000 dude?

 

[gtd2000]

What motherboard are u using SeaHarp?

 

[audscott]

I have a comparible system:

1.2 Gig Tbird @ 1.4

drystone 3917
whetstone 1926

Yours is right there.

hard drive 41,200

Again - on target.

Memory alu/648 - fpu/719

As most have indicated your RAM benchmark is a little slow.

I'm using the Iwill KK266 motherboard - it allows very high FSB or bus speeds - currently running 163 fsb. With 100 MHz bus speed I still would expect a little high memory scores with your system.

Can you find the mobo manual to see how to adjust the memory timings? Cas 2 is good for increasing memory speed as are turbo memory timings &amp; 4 way memory interleaving.

Good luck