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After relocating my 2100 palamino from my Gigabyte board to an Asus mobo(with the latest bios 1012)and with a sorry Ali chip set, I have lost quite abit of folding performance. Windows recognizes it as an AMD 2100XP and the speed seems to be correct or in line with the FSB. But when I go into Everest home addition and do a
read/write/latency test on the ram, my processor is listed down close to a 1500 Athlon. The only mention in Everest of the 2100XP, shows it running with an Abit mobo dual channel memory set-up. When you do one of these test in Everest, it never tells you what CPU it is, it only says "This Computer."
I did notice that my ram timings were a lil' bit off, but it could be that I have my FSB bumped up a tad.A common timing of a DDR-266 RAM chip is
2.5-3-3-6. Mine shows 2.5-3-3-7.Anyone got a clue as to what my problem is? Is there possibly a setting in bios that could be causing me poor performance? I'm stumped.
I once had a 1400 Athlon on this very same board running DDR 2100. And it could not stay up with an Athlon 1200 running regular PC133 SDRAM, that was located on another identical board. Oh, and the mobo is an Asus A7A266.
It just don't make sense to me at all.
YO
I think you named it in the 1st sentence. Your board has a "sorry Ali chip set". The chipset is a BIG factor in performance..generally speaking, ALi & SiS suck, VIA is better, & nForce is king!
ASUS A7N8X-X
Athlon XP 1800+
8.5 x 200MHz
1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7
Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB
WinME/WinXP Pro SP2
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I meant to say, "nailed it", not "named it"
ASUS A7N8X-X
Athlon XP 1800+
8.5 x 200MHz
1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7
Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB
WinME/WinXP Pro SP2
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Jam,
lol! I knew I could count on you!
But now I think that I might have figured it out. When I moved the processor to the Asus, I never reinstalled folding. Not for positive if that will correct the problem, but I'm going to give it a shot.
Maybe Skip knows something about this.
Have a good'n!
YO
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which ASUS board are you using to list 1012 as the latest BIOS ??
WinXP PRO SP2
ASUS A7N8X-X
BIOS 1014 beta 2
PC3200 768 1.5t 3t 3t 6t
AMD XP 2600+ @ 2.2
ATI AIW 9800 PRO 128MB
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Oh nevermind, helps to read the entire post not sure if that motherboard has the C.O.P protection but if so, due to the palamino's tendacy to run hot, the C.O.P protection if its there could be underclocking the chip.
If you have the option, up the OverTemp in the BIOS, but id say with that chipset on the motherboard and that CPU you're looking at an ugly mess.
WinXP PRO SP2
ASUS A7N8X-X
BIOS 1014 beta 2
PC3200 768 1.5t 3t 3t 6t
AMD XP 2600+ @ 2.2
ATI AIW 9800 PRO 128MB
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JAM - IMHO - Au contraire! Although I agree Ali sucks, you will see more issues with VIA and nForce than SIS. SIS is not the "rocket" of chipsets, but is very compatible and stable.
98% of the population is asleep. The other 2% are staring around in complete amazement, abject terror, or both.
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So you're sure the FSB is set correctly?
The 2100+ Palomino is meant to run at
13x133MHz and with 13x100MHz that would be
1300MHz which is ver close to the 1333MHz
of the 1500+ you mentioned!
It's a known problem that the FSB is often
detected wrongly and set to the base speed
of 100MHz FSB.
I agree that the Ali chip wouldn't be the
best choice but just can't believe that
it's that bad as you described.
If you only change the cpu on that Asus
board that shouldn't be the problem. It
either worked or worked not in that case
and as it worked I don't see a reason for
being that slow there!
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