Re: AMD CPUs in ASRock motherboards

George Macdonald <fammacd=!SPAM^nothanks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If those tasks are bandwidth friendly, I think the 1GB/s
> "average" you gave is a bit off on a modern system.
> My Athlon64 s939 nForce3 system gets a bandwidth of ~5.8GB/s
> on Sandra's memory benchmark - that's sequential of course,
> so as good as it gets.

Better than good! That sounds like a cache bandwidth :) DDR
at 200 MHz gives 3.2 GByte/s burst bandwidth, so your number
is barely within the realm of possibility for a dual-channel
system. If so, the average interburst "latency" is tiny,
less than one clock.

> And as often mentioned here, many of the "buyers" are
> cluel.... err non-expert - they just buy whatever is on
> sale a Dell's monthly inventory run-down... yes, cost
> does count.:-)

And for many tasks, MS-Windows remains CPU bound.

-- Robert


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