Re: YMMV - Sustained transfer rates on Intel 430VX motherboard

["Bender, Bernhard" <br@elsa.de>]

well...

I also wonder why bus master transfer rates are so low with PCI chip 
sets from intel. on a typical PPro system I often observe transfer 
rates as low as 20 MByte/s. The bus master is otherwise able to 
accept 80+ MB/s as a target.

If Bruce is still on this list, maybe he could elaborate on his 
statement below and share his knowledge on just HOW to achieve the 
transfer rates he claims to have seen.

> We have demonstrated sustained PCI to DRAM access in excess of 100 
MB/s for each
> of these chipsets although a real application sharing the bus with 
other devices
> will not be able to attain that in most instances.

BTW, I am most interested in achieving the maximum transfer rate for 
read accesses to main memory
.

Bernhard Bender
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