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| (Review by MS, January 26, 2002) |
Performance
With the FSB set to 125 or 120 MHz for the 2.0A and 2.2 Northwood, respectively, the systems is a regular screamer. Again, standard benchmarks can be looked up in our earlier Northwood review. Lets see how the increased FSB is reflected in the memory bandwidth.
SiSoft Sandra 2002 Memory Benchmark
SiSoft Sandra memory bandwidth allowing buffered mode (Prefetch). At 125 MHz, and default setting using PC2100 DDR the memory appears to be running at 166 MHz which is reflected in the scores. There is no real hard indication in the BIOS as to what the actual mmeory frequency is, however, the theoretical bandwidth maximum at 125 MHz is 2000 MB/sec at 100% bus utilization in buffered mode. Therefore, the only explanation for the scores is that the memory is running at 125 MHz x 1.33 (166.3 MHz)
SiSoft Sandra memory bandwidth with prefetch disabled results in a substantial drop but the scores are still quite humongous, courtesy of the 166 MHz memory speed and the quad pumped FSB.
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