Author Topic: Is this right (Read 187 times)

woodfordb · « **on:** October 27, 2002, 01:00:03 PM »

Please have a look at the image.

This is from a bit of software called CPUBench2002.

Ive done many bench marks (3dmark, UT2003, etc) and ive always felt my machine has under perfomed compared to others. Even in AH.
Im getting similar stats to a Celeron of the same speed, or to a 1.5ghz p4 (Not the 1.7ghz it is)

I always thought the first gen P4 came with 256k of cache, and the celeron had 128k. the new nothwood has 512k.

Why is mine displaying 112k??

Regards

Mandrill

bloom25 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 27, 2002, 04:50:41 PM »

Your CPU is being misreported.

That's certainly a 1.7 GHz Willamette core P4, meaning it has:

8kB (approx) L1 trace cache & 256kB on die L2 cache

There are a lot of factors that come into play that can affect performance. My first guess is that your system uses the Intel i845 chipset and SDRAM (versus DDR SDram or Rambus ram). That would explain the performance issues.

If you want, list your system specs. If this is a name brand computer, the model number and brand.

If you are really interested in a CPU id program that works, wincpuid is free and actually works right.

woodfordb · « **Reply #2 on:** October 28, 2002, 01:49:49 PM »

Hi there, just downloading that prog now.

My system is a Rambus system.

here are my specs.

Intel P4 1.7ghz
Intel D850GB Motherboard
512mb PC800 Samsung ram
Geforce 4 Ti 600
SB Audigy
WD 80gb Hard drive (7200rpm, 8mb cache)
IBM 30gb hard drive (7200rpm 2mb cache
Adaptec 2940U
Plextor Ultraplex CD rom (SCSI)
Asus IDE DVD player
Yamaha CD/RW (SCSI)
ISDN PCI card

Windows XP Pro SP1
Latest drivers all round (MB, SB Audigy, Geforce etc)

Just tested that prog, yeah that one is reading it right with 256k of L2 cache.

Any idea's what could be wrong? my 3d 2001se mark is approx 8600, but games like UT its pretty poor with bot flyby at 1024x768 around the 32ish mark. other UT bench is around 110ish.

Regards

Mandrill

Manedew · « **Reply #3 on:** October 28, 2002, 03:01:35 PM »

Dunno about current Intel chips but the older P4's (about a year ago I think) had very very littie L1 cache. This was one of the main reasons (beyond price) why I bought an AMD chip last time I built a system. What does 400MHzFSB have over 266MHzFSB if your L1 cache sucks.

Anyway your chip may be diffrant but thought I'd bad mouth intel a bit

Maybe you thought INTEL was a good company.. but it's just based on TRASH
guess that makes AMD a dumpster diver.