Flesk / Linux / Database

Content Creation 2001 created a gap between the SDRAM and RDRAM. Fortunately the situation will change early next year when Intel will come up with a DDR version of 845. Let's take a look to multimedia performance.

Flesk is more susceptible to CPU power than to memory bandwidth. Pentium 4 performs very good in such tests because encoding does not use many jump instructions which are highly penalized by the huge pipeline size.

Linux compilation tests reveal the CPU power and memory bandwidth advantage. As you can see from Linux compilation time test there are not amazing differences between Windows performance and Linux behavior. We compiled Linux five times on every motherboard. The maximum tolerated difference was +/- 5 seconds. Results out of this interval were removed.

Last week I presented you a short playback script designed by one of our administrators. The 845 chipset was penalized with several seconds due to the memory interface. When overclocked TH7II doesn't improve performance too much because SQL queries consume memory bandwidth not CPU power. We experienced only a 0.8s difference in a 310Mhz clock increase.