Windows memory benchmark ready

BILL HENNING has obviously been a busy Bill for the last few months as he has laboured over the Memtach memory benchmark for Windows. But now, he says, everything is ready and if you want to try it out you can download it from his CPU Review site by getting over here. You can find the documentation for Memtach here.

Bill says "I wanted to be able to also measure the best achievable performance - as well as the worst possible performance. I wanted to be able to analytically determine the performance characteristics of the memory subsystem in systems I test. Ideally, I should be able to determine the L1 size, L2 size, memory paging organization and miss penalties by analyzing the performance of certain test routines." And talking of benchmarking - or benchmarketing as we call it when the big vendors get involved - there's an interesting thread on Ace's Hardware which is well worth a read.

Nor have we quite moved away from either subject as we point to this System Logic page which gives retail prices of CPUs (some have gone up shock!) and Rambus RIMMs (some have gone down horror!).

Away from memory to symmetric multiprocessing. Not something you'd think the world+dog+budgerigar would be interested in, is it? But our page views show that the dog is yapping and the budgie is squawking when AMD SMP is mentioned. Over at Tech Report there's a down to earth piece about what SMP can do for you. Find the page here.

Those boys in Hong Kong have been messing about with their URLs again, but we think we're still keeping track and you can find more AMD notebook pics here. µ