Memory benchmarks suggestion

[havli]

There are many many interesting HW platforms (mostly old pre-IMC), but only few of them are actually viable for using in the current system. For example SDRAM - only Asus CUSL2/TUSL2 (i815EP) is competitive, no point in using other boards or chipsets.

 

In my opinion it would be nice to move "Memory Clock" plus both "MaxxMem" and "MaxxMem Read Bandwidth" to the Motherboard benchmarks. Sure - the RAM clock and performance mostly depends on the chipset used, but the actuall implementation - MB layout and BIOS affects them also.

 

As for the IMC-equipped platforms - it is a little more difficult here... both motherboard (BIOS options, VRM, PCB layout) and CPU (IMC capabilities) affects the score. To keep things simple I guess it would be best to sort these scores by the MB as well.

 

Perhaps the current memory sorting (SDRAM, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, etc.) could be used for global poins.

 

What do you think?

[Massman]

I agree with sorting global points per memory type. This requires quite a bit of reword in the points code, though.

 

I'm not convinced we should move those benchmarks to "mainboard".