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Subject: Re: A quote from Aceshardware

Author: Yen Art Tham

Date: 11:02:26 06/18/04

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On June 18, 2004 at 08:51:34, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>On June 18, 2004 at 06:39:17, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>
>>On June 17, 2004 at 21:39:26, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>>
>>You asked for example :
>>
>>Why filling all banks of a P4C/P4EE cas2 is helping a lot for DIEP you can read
>>at www.aceshardware.com, hardware reviews from the different processors and
>>comparing them against each other.
>>
>>The speedups reported by Johan thanks to SMT/HT only could get reproduced by
>>testers with all memory banks filled. If you fill 1 bank only, you don't get
>>like 21% speedup out of HT at all.
>>
>>See www.aceshardware.com
>
>Looks like he agrees with me:
>
>His quote: "No surprises here, as DIEP is more or less immune to faster memory
>subsystems."
>
>Link to page:
>http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=65000313
>
>If you notice in the benchmarks, DIEP speeds up 1kn/s (148 to 149) going to
>lower latency non-registered / non-ecc memory on the same CPU. Now double memory
>bandwidth, you'll notice no difference. Only difference I've seen is from
>decreasing memory/bus latency. Even then it is EXTREMELY small and one could say
>it is within margin of error.


In other words, there is no significant difference in the performance of a chess
program when using either generic memory or expensive memory like Corsair.
Correct?



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