Doh... you asked for speed... doh yes it's PC133...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:st3v3.sm1th@gmail.com">st3v3.sm1th@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Gareth,<br><br>Yes I see that. It's an Asus CUV4XDLS motherboard which uses the infamous VIA 686 chipset.
<br>So that means it's ordinary SDRAM with as you say only one path to the RAM....<br><br>Interesting. I was actually hoping to downgrade to a single processor board (an Intel D815EEA) because
<br>the ASUS implementation of ACPI isn't really any good, I'm convinced I shouldn't need dual processors for SD,<br>and I want to cut the electricity bill!<br><br>What's your guess, would downgrading actually help matters seeing as there'll be no contention on the RAM on a single processor system? (the new board is just lying around at the moment...)
<br><br>Cheers<br><span class="sg"><br>Steve<br><br></span><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/07/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">GARETH GLACCUM</b> <<a href="mailto:gareth.glaccum@btopenworld.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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</span></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><span class="q"><div>What speed is the ram you have? The system you have, although it has two processors, these are going to be limited by the IO. There is only 1 IO path that they can use to get to the RAM. The RAM is a buffer both for the PCI, ( and Disk) and processors.
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