best bios settings?

[jasond]

To speed up CCE, what is the best setting in my bios?

optimal or performance?

I have a Elitegroup ECS k7s5a board running a duron 1 gig

MY CCE speeds are about 0.954 average on a NTSC dvd.

I know that is pretty good for this setup..but always trying to improve speed ;)

Thanks

[gerti67]

Hi jasond,

it is very hard to give an advice on that as there are hundreds of mobos and bios settings to play with - the best settings are always those that will let you run your PC rock stable. ;)

If possible use memory interleaving (4-way) plus the lowest wait states and so on as CCE scales pretty well with memory bandwith.

But have a look at this site for more info about fine tuning your mobo:

http://www.amdmb.com

Have a look at the elitegroup forum and ask the guys over there - they're a lot more experienced with this, i think. ;)

But be aware, do a serious testing with Prime95 or some memchecker after tuning the BIOS.

Greetings,
gerti67

[jasond]

Thanks for the reply Gerti67 :)

For reference, since I posted this, I tried both settings in my bios and checked the system with sisoft 2002 pro,and a short try in CCE and it didnt make much difference.. So I guess there is no difference on these boards bios.

I'm still happy with the results I am getting in CCE, so I wont complain :)

[gerti67]

Hi jasond,

from my own testing i can say i could only push CCE speed by about 6% when overclocking my FSB to 106 MHZ (the highest i could do with my old KT133 chipset to still run stable). My CPU Duron 1200@1272MHz and PC133 SDRAM CL2@141 MHz still ran stable (tested with Prime95 and Mem-Test-86) but my graphicboard produced some pixel errors (because AGP ran @70 MHz instead of 66MHz) so i just got back to 102 MHz FSB with system running rock stable. ;) CCE speed increases only by about 2% with it :( so there's nothing to improve with the good old KT133 i think.

Time for an upgrade to KT266A, i think. ;)

Greetings,
gerti67