10364 @ stock with the GF4 Ti4600 I just got in from a trade today. Solanis box in sig with the Ti4600 instead of the GF3. Don't know if I can scale 3000 points to best harrack, but I'll see what happens when my Epox 8RDA comes in next week (trade also). The two things that could hold me back are: 1.)Using an Athlon 1.4GHz of the old T-bird core; and, 2.)My memory I have to pair with it right now is likely not to go very high, being PC2100. It's Samsung chips, but it's still PC2100.
Well I've just scored over 14k. System oced to 225*10 and perfectly stable (Been running Prime95 and United Devices for 17 hours and a 2 hour loop of 3dmark01 w/ no problems). BigB: I've heard lots of good things about the 8RDA, some people only swear by them ! But why don't you use the PC2100 for your XP2000+ and your PC2700 for the TBird if you wanna' oc it ?
Well, my Tbird is already unlocked. I tried to unlock my 2000+ since it's a palimino, but it's a pain in the ass to do. I'm planning on selling some of the stuff I've still got around on-line and see if I can gather up enough $$ or trade for some good memory. One guy over @ AMDMB is selling a ton of RAM, and it seems that most people with the 8RDA are running TwinMOS or Buffalo RAM with Winbond CH-5 chips on it. That's what I'd rather hold out for. I'm really hoping this Epox board doesn't go dead on me like that 8K3A+ did. It croaked on me like a week after I did the review, which led to me getting that Abit NV7-133R. Good board, except the overclocking on it sucks.
After having 3 nForce 2 boards give me trouble with memory error crap (I say this because I've tried several different sticks of the approved memory), I got a P4 board (look for a review soon) and got a P4 now to go with it. Here's some brief specs at stock speeds: i865P board (dual channel) P4 2.4GHz (B=533MHz FSB chip) 512MB PC3200 Kingston ValueRAM PNY GF4 Ti4600 3Dmark 2001SE score: 12975. This is without any tweaks at all. No ocing, no memory settings changed in BIOS, no nothing. I used the latest Intel INF and IAA drivers and the 43.03 Dets. I'm excited to see what I can do after some overclocking...after I get my test data.
What's the brand of the board ? As for myself, I got 16780 with my 9800np flashed to a pro w/ the cpu at 200*11 It's not stable though as the system will reboot if I loop it 3 times. Also, I can't oc as much with the card flashed so I'm suspecting the psu to be at its limit. It's not the heat sincewhen it rebooted, the ABSII was at 48C and the die temp was 43C. I might buy some ramsinks for my vid card or I might just flash it back with the original bios as the 9800np is still a very powerfull card(15500 w/ cpu at 210*10.5). The reason I bought the 9800np is because a) I was able to sell my 9600 pro and b) it cost only $370 cad and I knew it would be flashable so I had to get it, it was just a great deal ! I also felt ripped off with my 9600 pro...I couldn'T turn on the eye candy as much as I thought I would.
Ramsinks only help if your OC is being limited by heat. Most of the time, you'll be limited by the memory chip itself. I've got an MSI board in the dungeon awaiting testing. Barring no more aformentioned issues like with the nForce 2, I should be done with it in short order. If you want some cheap RAMsinks, Cooler Master has some that are for the older memory packaging, which is not the BGA stuff that's on the 9800's. I got 'em locally for like $8-9 for a pack of 8 'sinks.
i get 14000 standard with shit drivers and a full of w4nk pc. i used to get 6,000 with my gf4 mx 440 but my 9800 pro makessssssssss a huge differance. all i need is a new mobo and processor and i can et over 20,000 on 3d mark 2001 but i cannot afford Im drinkin beer and listenin to trance, im proper F-ed lol
:beer: Yes, I'd hope you'd notice a difference with that upgrade. I figured you'd be a bit down on power with making "only" 14k on 3dmark2k1 and comparing that P4 system with the GF4 Ti4600.
Well ive finally got rid of my sd ram and got some ddr400 to go with my P4a. Its scoring nice. Its cheapo 512mb C3 ram from ebuyer and cracks a nice 2.9gb/s bandwidth in Sandra. Better than the 800mb/s from the pc100. Cas isnt stable past 2.5 but the other ones, RAS n all them ! go to the fastest settings. It now takes my little GeForce 4 MX420 to an amazing 7845 in 3d Mark 2001. All overclocked of course. The P4a 2ghz is at 2.5ghz and 500mhz FSB and the RAM at 416 and Cas 3. The MX420 went from 250:166 to 330:210. Ill sort a screen shot out for those who dont beleive it! It plays BF1942 with all settings on high, with no AA and 1024x768x16 at 50 fps. Im made up. The new motherboard cost £40 and the 512mb ddr400 cost £40. It truly is a new comp. Im waiting on a 'lost in the post' Chieftec Dragon, but my old case is sound still so that doesnt count!
w00t... I think? Heh I ran 3dMark2001SE with the rig in my signature and I score a 6333 almost everytime. And that is everything stock no twaeking or anything. I can get it up to 6700 by increasing my external frequency to 153 from 133. Is that good considering what i have? Heh. ~Temporal~
heh Well, when I said "is that good" I was also reffering to my score of 6333? I mean how big is the scoring scale on 3DMark?
That does seem a little low. I had a P4 1.6A and a Radeon 8500LE that was hitting in the 8000's. I know the 9000's are rebadged, lower clocked 8500's, but even then...I'm wondering if you don't have your INF's installed...which could kill some performance. BTW... 14,500 3DMark 2k1 Abit IS7-E P4 2.4B @ 3.1GHz PNY GF4 Ti4600 The Ti4600 is the bottleneck there, but it's always cool to have the actual scores in front of you.
My INF's? Those are chipset drivers right? I have not installed any of those. Where should I get these? I beleive I have an i845E chipset. Could not haveing those installed kill that much performance? ~Temporal~
You can get them from your motherboard manufacturer, or alternately from Intel. P.S. - Phlak Linuk - you h/\x0r, you
Haha, haxor? Hardly, I only play around with it a little bit, also should I Do a fresh install of win Xp, and then the INf's? I thik I remember reading that somewhere, like "install them before video card drivers... etc" ~Temporal~
If you're a freak that must have the very last point in 3Dmark, yes. Otherwise, get them and you'll do yourself a favor.
Yes, I am a freak that must have every last point... so I guess i will install everything all over again and we will see the scores =). Thanks ~Temporal~
Alright I installed the drivers and stuff, but i didnt get that much an increase only about 100 points. but after a lot of tweaking in my bios I finnally got it above 7000 w0000! all I pretty much changed was the ram timings and my FSB. 18x156 (2.8Ghz) and my ram timings are 2-2-2-5... At least I think thats what they are... Is that any good? ~Temporal~
