Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 13:23:41 01/21/02
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On January 21, 2002 at 15:43:48, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >I can't imagine it has to do with the BIOS setup. > >The BIOS would only be able to affect external memory speed and possibly disable >the on-chip caches. I doubt that any changes to external memory settings would >have a major effect on chess programs and if any of the on-chip caches were >disabled, performance would be closer to 386 speeds than underclocked Athlon >speeds. > >The two reasons I can imagine for the Athlon not performing as well as it should >are 1) accidental underclocking and 2) accidentally running something else in >the background. > >-Tom He can check the frequency with H. Oda's wcpuid: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002374/src/download.html and benchmark with Sisoft Sandra: http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/sandra -S.
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