Really Low Sandra Mem Scores on ASUS A7A266

[Xtasy]

I was getting about 1000 mbs with sdram @ 160mhz, fastest timings. Popped in samsung ddr 333 in there and ran at 160mhz(320mhz ddr) and i only got 1600mbs with the fastest timings. That is really low considering it get beat bad by via kt266a @ 266mhz ddr and Ali Magik 1 @ 266mhz ddr, which is the same chipset! Running on a t-bird 1450 @ 320mhz fsb x 9.0, samsung pc2700 @ 320mhz ddr, Asus A7A266.

 

[AndyHui]

The original A0 stepping of the ALi Magik1 chipset has horrendous memory scores for SDRAM, and PC1600 DDR SDRAM. They look reasonable at PC2100 against the original KT266, but that's about it.

The newer b0/C0 stepping is far more competitive.

Make sure that you have the latest BIOS, version 1010 or 1011, and have System Acceleration Mode enabled in the BIOS.

 

[Xtasy]

I did flash to 1011 bios and I believe system acceleration is on, but since the cpu bus is at 320, the memory bus is at 320, that should hands down beat all other amd platforms in the sisoft list.