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Is there any software to monitor the exact amount of current used for each line from the power supply? I occassionally encouner system instability during heavy gaming and I want to know if this is caused by my system putting a strain on the power supply. Thanks in advance.

Indeed. Looking at benchmarks all day and not doing CS homework (due tomorrow) is also bad. I'm just really interested in finding out how some people achieve those (extremely) high scores.

Another interesting observation (at the risk of sounding completely dumb), changing the SDRAM CAS Latency from 2.5T (default by SPD) to either 2T or 1.5T causes the machine to not boot or reboots halfway through WinXP start-up.

After some tweaking, the FSB and the RAM are both at 150MHz (1:1), and some other settings: SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay --> 2T SDRAM RAS Precharge Delay --> 2T SDRAM Active Precharge Delay --> 5T PCMark score improved by 9.6% to 5037. Though still not the 6000+ memory score as seen here, this is...

ketchup79, I just checked my BIOS, and the only settings available for the CPU:RAM ratio are "auto", "1:1", and "4:3". What now?

I just changed the FSB to 150MHz. Good improvement on all benchmarks, but the memory ones are still undesirable. As I'm going through the BIOS, I have no idea what to set for these: SDRAM CAS Latench SDRAM RAS to CAS Delay SDRAM RAS Precharge Delay SDRAM Active Precharge Delay SDRAM Idle Timer...

ah~ touché. Didn't catch the OC part. Now I'm looking into upgrading the RAM to PC2700, since I don't think Asus P4B533-VM supports DDR400 (even DDR333 is unofficial). Are there significant differences between brands? My main concern isn't video performance, since most of my gaming is...

Sorry for the duplicate posting. I'm the kind of person who just can't wait to get a response. I just checked out the top few systems with specs similar to mine (URL: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm=976091), and the biggest difference is the memory benchmark. I also noted that his...

I guess I should rephrase the question. Almost all other systems with the exact same specs (sometimes even the same video card) are getting better (and often significantly) benchmarks than my system, and I really want to know why. I also want to know if this is something I can "fix" buy...

Yeah, but when I checked other systems with almost identical specs, their benchmarks are always (and often significantly) higher. I just want to know the reason why.

So it is true that video card can drag down overall system performance? In other words, if I were to upgrade to a ATi Radeon 9700 Pro, the benchmarks should go way up? Are there other possible bottlenecks? Thanks

I just ran some benchmark tests on my machine, namely 3DMark2003, PCMark2002, 3DMark2001SE, but the resulting scores were quite low when I compared them to other systems posted on the Futuremark/MadOnion website. Below is my system specs: Intel Pentium 4 2.4B GHz 533MHz FSB Asus P4B533-VM 845G...

I just ran some benchmark tests on my machine, namely 3DMark2003, PCMark2002, 3DMark2001SE, but the resulting scores were quite low when I compared them to other systems posted on the Futuremark/MadOnion website. Below is my system specs: Intel Pentium 4 2.4B GHz 533MHz FSB Asus P4B533-VM 845G...

I want to replace the fan on my Matrox Parhelia with something quieter, but I want to make sure whatever I buy fits on the Parhelia and still performs within safety. Any suggestions? I'm also looking into replacing the stock Intel P4 fan for my 2.4B GHz with something quieter. Does anyone know...

So it turned out that the video cards were Dell generic ones without any noticeable marking (at least none that I could find). I didn't have the time to check all the tiny text though.