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Check out this benchmark

HeXploiT

Diamond Member
OK my primary rig is down since i blew out my cpu and i've been rather bored so i decided to do a little benchmarking. The system specs are as follows?:

Tyan S15905 100Mhz bus (Socket 7)
Pentium 166Mhz cpu
128mb pc100
Radeon 9500Pro
WinXP Pro sp1

The bench is 3DMark 2001 Pro SE.
Nothing is overclocked. The Radeon is using the Warp 1.1 but is at stock speed and is crippled since this mb only supports AGP x2.

Score: 1208

I was going to try 3Dmark 2003 as well but it took 3 hours to complete the benchmark on this test and i was afraid that the 5+ volts being pumped into the Radeon were going to fry it. The cpu was getting so hot during all this that i actually had to slap on a huge copper sink and fan just to complete the benchmark without the machine freezing up. My guess is that a 3DMark 2003 score would rival or beat the 2001 score. I'm totally amazed the Radeon lived. I think i've lost my nerve after this experiment.
 
GPUs can take some heat, but 5v doesn't seem realistic. XP probably has multiple corinaries trying to load on that.
 
Actually someone told me that those old boards put out 5v. I have no idea since i never used the agp in those old boards. Maybe they didn't know what they were talking about. If i think it's safe i'll attempt to run the 03 app as well.
 
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