The different memtest bandwidth between fx55 and venice
I remember some has mentioned before, why my FX55 DDR600 above , 2.5-3-3-6 bandwidth got so low bandwidth. Now with venice core , you guys can easily see this and understnad.
Apparently, memtest86+ 1.55 can't recognize this new core of AMD CPU.;)
FX55 doing DDR600 2.5-3-3-6
http://img258.echo.cx/img258/9584/gsffmt56vf.jpg
Venice 3500+ doing DDR610 2.5-3-3-6
http://img216.echo.cx/img216/650/veniceddr6104mf.jpg
SD 3700 looks just like the FX55 Bandwidth-wize
Based on a few diff chip types and a few years of painful experience (present pain included). You can have:
1. 512K cache and great BW
2. 1M cache and noticably less BW
This seems to stretch back to old 754 days when I could get 2000mb/sec on my 3000+ NC w/ crappy settings @ 250 x 9 but 1750 max @ good settings on CH CG chips @ same speeds.
Like the balance better on the 512k chips, never getting another 1M cache chip again.
(SPI scores seem about the same though :shrug: )