Norton SI question

[RLT65]

Hello, I have a celeron 488 overclocked. When I run norton si it reports at 142, but a PentiumII 450 is at 204, why? I know that my celeron 488 is about as fast as a P2 450, is si junk?

Thanks, Rhonda http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[OPPAINTER]

I dont know about Norton, never use it, but if you want to I.D. your cpu and Mhz download WCPUID.
http://www.tweakfiles.com/processor/wcpuid.html



[This message has been edited by OPPAINTER (edited 11-11-2000).]

[Dave_H]

I think Rhonda is talking about the benchmark score, Norton gives the P2-450 a score of 204.8
Dave

[OPPAINTER]

Well in that case run a benchmark with this.
http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/sandra

[otheos]

SI is an overall benchmark (tests CPU and Bus). My Duron 1G gets 267 while my other Duron 950 gets 282. The difference between the two is the memory. The latter has 128MB PC133 CL2 memory while the former has 256MB PC133 CL3 memory (talking about quality memory huh..)

My K6-2 @600 scores lower than the P2 400 no matter what tweak (due to poor memory bandwidth).

As for your celeron, remember the P2 not only runs at 450 (really close to 488) but has a 100Mhz BUS (which I doubt your celeron has) where the memory runs (i.e. higher bandwidth to what you get) and also 512KB cache (eventhough it runs at 1/2 speed it is 256Bit wide, and if your celeron has 128K full speed cache you may be close but if you have no L2 just forget about it -although I am sure it has 128K at that speed).

Finally all synthetic benchmarks can tell you nothing explicit about your system performance compared to a different system. All they are good for is to see if you gain/lose performance in the same system with different setups! So it's basically good only when comparing the same system (not two same one) tweaked differently.

Good luck.