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Subject: Re: A quote from Aceshardware

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 04:28:08 06/19/04

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On June 19, 2004 at 06:34:18, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

Measured with Dieter's dblat the random latency differences with 500MB buffer:
  A64  133Mhz cas3       171 nanoseconds
  A64  200Mhz cas2        91 nanoseconds



>On June 18, 2004 at 14:02:22, Yen Art Tham wrote:
>
>>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?
>
>Wrong.
>
>Using cas2 400Mhz memory is way faster than 200Mhz cas3.
>
>*real huge* difference.



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