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Benchmarks I

There is only one thing that you can do with your PC and that is of course once you get is stable start mucking around with it pushing the envelope that little bit further, getting the maximum bang per buck, and of course make the whole thing unstable again )O:

The Problem with the KT7 is that the multiplier only goes up as far as 12.5 leading to a maximum speed of 1250Mhz, as this CPU seems fairly happy above these speeds, there is only one way to increase it more and that is to push up the FSB. Stability on the EV6 200MHZ DDR Front side bus can be a little bit tricky and I was having real problems getting anything reliable over around 105Mhz, to work for games, On reading up on it a bit I found that setting the AGP Driving Control to manual and setting a hex Value of EA seems to improve stability and with EA turned on, and CPU drive strength set to 3, I seem to be able to get stability at up to111MHZ FSB, I have successfully run 3dmark 2000 at 111MHZ FSB, this did cause a few visual anomaly's, but did at least run, which is something I never achieved before, this resulted in my highest 3dmark score to date of 8829 3D marks, this was with the CPU running at 1334Mhz which seems to be the highest that I can run games so far.

The Hercules Prophet 2 GTS 64 is obviously a big help with the 3dmark scores, so far I've got it running at 227 core 435 mem, with the latest 6.47 NED's drivers it seems to be the best yet. At 435Mhz it does gets a few artifacts on screen during intensive 3dmark scenes, so I usually run at 225 core 420 mem.

Well I expect you want to see some benchmarks now

So here they are

SiSoft Sandra, provides a wealth of information about the CPU, memory speeds, and a whole lot of pretty useless stuff as well, so on with the bits you might want to see "The interesting bits"

CPU Benchmark

And some more Benchmarks

Well with that over with there are the game benchmarks.

3dmark 2000, a great test of stability will run at 1334 MHz at 111 FSB with Detonator 6.47 drivers and Hercules GTS 64MB at 226 Core 435 mem, I get the previously mentioned score of 8829, this is the highest I've achieved so far.

Quake 3 is "the" game that you have to run, if you want to call yourself an "Overclocker". I have found that to run Open GL games my Hercules wont run at the same speed as for 3dmark 2000,it causes lots of graphical errors, so all OpenGL games benchmarks are run at 225 core 430mem

With default config and a clean install of Quake 3, Version 1.17. These are the scores I get and I did them at 1325Mhz before I realised but I'm not gonna do them again it took a while.

These are all default settings apart from Extra HQ where all graphical settings are maxed out.

Well I'm not sure how they compare really, but it certainly ain't slow A Geforce 2 Ultra, would of course make a difference, but they are £380 so I wont be getting one of those anytime soon )O: .

Quake 2 I know it's old but woooo it's cool seeing it run stupidly fast

I ran demo1 at all the usual resolutions, with the AMD 3Dnow patch installed and version 3.20 Quake 2 Patch

In 2.2 seconds demo1.dm2 was finished in 640 resolution this computer is kind of fast hehe. Hmm 320FPS thats the same as the Quake 2 version number 3.20, something going on here maybe hehe.

Quake 2 Crusher was "The" benchmark to run when Voodoo 2 in SLI was the best thing around, I just had to run this to see what it would do (O:. I remember it well with my trusty Celeron 300A at 464Mhz and Voodoo 2 in SLI overclocked to 110Mhz, ah those where the days lol.

Any way on with the results (O:

Crusher.dm2 run at various resolutions

Well after an exhaustive few hours of benchmarking, and stuff, I think I might call it a day for now. There's always tomorrow to make it go faster (O:.

Updated Benchmarks comparing to the Pentium 4 using Si-Soft 2001 !

There is one last thing before you go, I did manage to get the computer to POST at a staggering 1438Mhz, it wouldn't actually do anything, but well 1.4gig wooo that's fast, hehe.