Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Feb 2000 22:05:37 -0600 (CST) | From | ma <> | Subject | Re: Athlon 650 + K7M is too slow! |
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i would check the mainboard,most K7 ones will not support P133 memory.
M.A.
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Walter Brisken wrote:
> > Today I put together my new Athlon. It is a 650 MHz chip running on a K7M > motherboard. The power supply is one recommended by AMD, and the RAM is > PC133 which is certified by Accubyte to be good with Athlons. > > Booting Redhat 6.1 (or the new beta, 6.1.92) give very poor memory > bandwidths: > > raid5: measuring checksumming speed > raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines > pII_mmx : 78.105 MB/sec > p5_mmx : 75.819 MB/sec > 8regs : 92.202 MB/sec > 32regs : 42.291 MB/sec > using fastest function: 8regs (92.202 MB/sec) > > The other weird thing is a two-tone siren that the PC speaker puts out > that I cannot turn off. I thought it was the "Chassis Intrusion" but I > can't seem to turn it off, even with the bios option for it. > > > We have another Athlon running in the lab here (500 MHz on an FIC SD11 > board) and it outperforms this new machine by a factor of about 5 on > floating point tests and a factor of about 10 on memory transfer tests. > > I've tried the Red Hat 2.2.12 and 2.2.15pre kernels with the same > disappointment. I think there might be a new BIOS out there, but can't > find it. It is supposed to allow super-bypass, but that can't account for > the slowness. I have even tried the memory from the 500 MHz machine. I > can't think of any other things to do. I have experienced no stability > trouble at all. > > Is this a kernel issue? Any ideas would be appreciated. Please cc your > responce to my email address. > > Thanks! > > -Walter > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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