9800 XT

  • Thread starter Thread starter J.Clarke
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Skid said:
You're right not to obsess over what others are scoring. And you
already have a good idea what it will take to get your own scores
higher.

Scrub the system and the registry of all leftover Nvidia files. They
are poison.

Most people quote benchmark numbers using the highest overclock they
can use to finish the run, with all background apps turned off, and
tweak the drivers by setting the 3D sliders all the way to the
performance setting. You can do the same to get a better score, but
what really matters is getting the most from your hardware at the
settings you use every day.
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Sure... i did do the test with my basic overclocking settings, but indeed
with the ATI settings to 'performance'....

Thomas
 
Well, first off the Overdrive feature sucks and only offers a marginal
overclock. You really need Rivatuner to get good high values. The overdrive
will only be used by people that have never overclocked before and want to be
safe and sure.

Secondly. I used newer drivers, set it to performance, 1024x768 @ 32 bit ,
90 refresh rate. Default settings on 3dmark2001se still only gives me
15,500.

I have a 1 gb ram corsair ddr 333, amd 2500+ @ 180 fsb instead of default
166. bios is set to second highest setting which is turbo for memory
settings. Fast writes disabled in bios b/c it seemed to make the card a bit
slower. Shadowing and caching for video off in bios. Its set to 8x agp. I
installed newest via 4 in 1. Turned off all running programs.

Still cant get over 16,000. But all of the results on the search and compare
of 3dmark show that the people that beat my score are all using fsb of over
200 and much faster cpus then my 2500+. Could that be the reason?

Any other ways for me to get a faster number? Im not reall concerned but
more curious then anything to find the setting, component thats forcing the
lag in score. Would the sharing of a irq cause the slow down? I dont have
much choice on the irq b/c of acpi and windows xp. The onboard usb and
ethernet almost always share the same irq as the video card. I can set the
setting "assign irq for vga" in bios but it goes on either 7 or 11 and both
have a usb controller and or ethernet or raid controller on that irq.
 
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