Take any two: motherboard performance, compatibility, value

[Adam Lazur]

Doug Eadline (deadline at plogic.com) said:
> We have Linux working on Serverworks systems. We are still testing, but
> our dual PIII Cu-733 with 1GB PC-133 SDRAM(ecc) gave pretty good stream
> numbers.  

For the benefit of the list, here are the stream numbers from a dual PIII
Cu-733 w/PC-133 SDRAM(ecc):

ServerWorks ServerSet III LE chipset board

[uniproc stream_wall test]
Function      Rate (MB/s)   RMS time     Min time     Max time
Copy:         376.7285       0.0935       0.0934       0.0940
Scale:        373.5860       0.0942       0.0942       0.0943
Add:          483.6362       0.1092       0.1092       0.1092
Triad:        341.0235       0.1548       0.1548       0.1549

[dualproc stream_wall test]
Function      Rate (MB/s)   RMS time     Min time     Max time
Copy:         161.1795       0.2216       0.2184       0.2244
Scale:        173.3435       0.2090       0.2031       0.2118
Add:          191.2891       0.2805       0.2760       0.2839
Triad:        185.7363       0.2953       0.2843       0.3018

Tyan S1834 Tiger 133 - VIA Apollo Pro 133A Chipset board

[uniproc stream_wall test]
Function      Rate (MB/s)   RMS time     Min time     Max time
Copy:         313.4796       0.1124       0.1123       0.1131
Scale:        312.1564       0.1128       0.1128       0.1128
Add:          411.2952       0.1284       0.1284       0.1287
Triad:        312.8129       0.1688       0.1688       0.1689

[dualproc stream_wall test]
Function      Rate (MB/s)   RMS time     Min time     Max time
Copy:         146.1533       0.2432       0.2408       0.2469
Scale:        147.7545       0.2402       0.2382       0.2420
Add:          165.5157       0.3218       0.3190       0.3237
Triad:        158.7726       0.3360       0.3326       0.3385


The results from the ServerWorks chipset are quite interesting. I also
experienced issues with not being able to set ECC (the menu option is
*missing*) on the Tyan S1834 mobo.

.adam

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[                  Adam Lazur <alazur at plogic.com>                     ]
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