Author: David Dory
Date: 03:19:33 01/22/02
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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 Yep, that's what I would have thought, also. Then I got an Athlon 1900+ and _there it was_. I can easily make it run from 1200 to 1900 (full speed). All through the BIOS set-up. This is with the AMI BIOS. With other BIOS's I have no experience with the Athlon. I hope the principals involved KNOW if other programs are running or not :-)). Dave
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