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From: hakme@latcs1.oz (Dennis Hakme)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Can I Trust Performance Results?
Message-ID: <6707@latcs1.oz>
Date: 29 Oct 89 04:47:24 GMT
References: <89102623321592@masnet.uucp>
Reply-To: hakme@latcs1.oz (Dennis Hakme)
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
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In article <89102623321592@masnet.uucp> wayne.ho@f526.n250.z1.fidonet.org (wayne ho) writes:
> 
>Hello there,
>    I'm just wondering.. when one turns on memory interleaving does 
>
>this increase the performance of the computer or does it allow for 
>slower RAM chips and give you 0 wait states.  I have a 286 NEAT chipset 
>board and have 80ns chips installed.  When I install memory interleaving 
>the benchmarks seem to be a bit slower.  Does this make sense?
> 
>                                Wayne
>

I have a 16MHz NEAT which uses 100ns Ram and has the AMI bios. I always use
interleaving and 0-wait because it is DEFINITELY faster than Normal mode 1-wait state.
With the interleaving set the computer actually runs at an average of 0.7 
wait states which makes it slightly faster than 1-wait.
The only reason that the non-interleave mode with 1-wait state is offered is
because you can only have interleaving when you have an even number of 
memory banks with the same type of ram chips.

I don't know what benchmarks you have been using but all the ones I have
tried verify the above.



						Dennis Hakme