K7S5A PCMark numbers are low, help me speed up

[GISconsultant]

here is the information off of PCMark: Why does my FSB only say 66? I am slightly overclocked at 136mhz. What should my Bios settings be? i have a 400watt power supply

Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000
DirectX Version 8.0

Mobo Manufacturer ECS
Mobo Model K7S5A
AGP Rates (Current/Available) 4x / 1x 2x 4x

CPU AMD Athlon(tm) XP/MP/4 1410 MHz
FSB 66 MHz
Memory 256 MB

Graphics Chipset NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
Driver Name NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
Driver Version 6.13.10.2832
Video Memory 64 MB





CPU Score 4158
Memory Score 2071
HDD Score 153

CPU Tests


Jpeg Decoding 14.3 MPixels/s
Zlib Compression 5.4 MB/s
Zlib Decompression 62.3 MB/s
Text Search 133.4 KRounds/s
Audio Conversion 77.0 KB/s
3D Vector Calculation 58.9 FPS

Memory Tests


Raw Block Read - 3072KB 785.8 MB/s
Raw Block Read - 536KB 783.6 MB/s
Raw Block Read - 384KB 786.6 MB/s
Raw Block Read - 48KB 17201.9 MB/s
Raw Block Read - 6KB 16886.0 MB/s
Raw Block Write - 3072KB 364.5 MB/s
Raw Block Write - 1536KB 346.3 MB/s
Raw Block Write - 384KB 370.4 MB/s
Raw Block Write - 48KB 10816.8 MB/s
Raw Block Write - 6KB 10646.5 MB/s
Raw Block Modify - 3072KB 305.4 MB/s
Raw Block Modify - 536KB 291.5 MB/s
Raw Block Modify - 384KB 315.8 MB/s
Raw Block Modify - 48KB 5779.8 MB/s
Raw Block Modify - 6KB 5793.1 MB/s
Random Access - 24576 (1536KB) items 533.5 MB/s
Random Access - 12288 (768KB) items 535.0 MB/s
Random Access - 6144 (384KB) items 532.5 MB/s
Random Access - 1536 (96KB) items 3351.5 MB/s
Random Access - 768 (48KB) items 5041.8 MB/s
Random Access - 96 (6KB) items 5077.3 MB/s
Video - 1 line 616.4 FPS
Video - 4 lines 501.0 FPS
Video - 16 lines 283.8 FPS
Video - 32 lines 179.2 FPS

Hard Disk Tests


Cached File Write 5.4 MB/s
Uncached File Write 5.6 MB/s
Cached File Read 3.3 MB/s
Uncached File Read 4.8 MB/s
File Copy 2.6 MB/s

Crunch Tests


Jpeg Decoding 8.7 MPixels/s
Raw Block Modify - 3072KB 132.7 MB/s
Blit Test 138.4 FPS

Pro Version - Windows XP 2D Tests


Lines N/A
Ellipses N/A
Arcs N/A
Beziers N/A
Curves N/A
Filled Ellipses N/A
Gradient Boxes N/A
Gradient Polygons N/A
Filled Pies N/A
Images N/A
Cached Bitmaps N/A
Strings N/A

Pro Version - Video Performance Tests


ASF Compression - Low N/A
ASF Compression - High N/A
ASF Playback - Low N/A
ASF Playback - High N/A
DVD Playback - Low Quality N/A
DVD Playback - High Quality N/A

Pro Version - Video Quality Tests


Line Flicker N/A
Feathering N/A
Double Images N/A
Jaggies N/A
Tearing N/A

 

[zzzz]

don't believe too much on the pcmark score.
Anyway, your HD scores look way too low. Try updating the chipset IDE drivers.

 

[GISconsultant]

Thanks for responding. I was not able to find a newer driver on the SiS site, i have one from 1999 as my PCI IDE Controller. Any other recommendations? by the way, the primary is a 80gig 7200 rpm maxtor, the secondary is a 30 gig 5400 rpm maxtor.

Im curious as to what other people have set their bios settings to, as this seems to be the largest variable.

 

[tenoc]

Ignore the 66 fsb reading. All madonion benchmarks show this mobo as 66.

The CPU score looks OK.

I'm guessing from the MEM score you have SDR, not DDR.

The HDD score is hosed! Do you have DMA enabled in Device Manager?

 

[Buz2b]

Go here for the drivers you need. Excellent source of info on the board also.

 

[GISconsultant]

DMA is enabled. I have multiple partitions on the drives, could that cause it? I received an ATA133 card with the Maxtor 80 gig drive. Should i use the card? I was having a really tough time booting off of it. It made the boot process much longer. Do i want to turn of SMART? Anything else to check for?

 

[Peter]

The SiS chipset integrated IDE controllers use much less system bandwidth than does any
PCI card - because the former have their own high speed connection within the chipset,
thus data don't travel across the comparatively slow PCI bus.

Your throughput rates suggest that either DMA is _not_ running or your HDD is really old.

regards, Peter

 

[GISconsultant]

Thank you peter! Where can i varify DMA settings on a win2k machine? I looked at the device manager -------> IDE ATA/ATAPI etc etc and right clicked ------> properties. Is there somewhere else i should check? I disabled ATAPI in my win2k start up as it said on some of the k7s5a faqs

 

[Buz2b]

You also want to turn off Smart Monitoring on the HDD. Update your drivers too.

 

[bowie71]

My PCmark Score:
Operating System Microsoft Windows ME
DirectX Version 8.1

Mobo Manufacturer ECS
Mobo Model K7S5A
AGP Rates (Current/Available) 4x / 1x 2x 4x

CPU AMD Athlon(tm) XP/MP/4 1650 MHz
FSB 66 MHz
Memory 256 MB

Graphics Chipset NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200
Driver Name NVIDIA GeForce3 Ti 200
Driver Version 4.13.01.2185

CPU Score 4749
Memory Score 3022
HDD Score 624

If I compare mine with yours, I agree that the problem with your system is only in HDD score part. I enable SMARTdisk, use original IDE driver from Windows and make only 2 partitions in my HD. FYI my HD is Maxtor 80GB 5400rpm ATA 100 and my memory stick is PC2100 DDRRAM.

 

[Barrei]

Hey bowie71 your memory scores look a little low are you running sdr or ddr . My scores cpu-5652, memory-5524, HDD -1114.

 

[bowie71]

<< Hey bowie71 your memory scores look a little low are you running sdr or ddr . My scores cpu-5652, memory-5524, HDD -1114. >>



Hei Barrei, Compare to whose?.. compare to your system?.. of course all things are different, you use Gigabyte mobo, Northwood P4, and ATA133 HD, totally different system compare to mine. My one surely will have a lower score concerning my lower cpu speed and HD rate speed.

The reason why I posted my score was because I have almost similar specs with GIconsultant's one, (esp the same K7S5A mobo). I hope my posts could help him solving his low HD score problem.

 

[GISconsultant]

and i appreciate it!

checking my settings, it says Use DMA if available, but it says its using PIO. How do i make it use DMA? and will having 4 partitions per drive cause low numbers like this?

 

[Barrei]

Hey bowie I thought your scores were good , I was just wondering if you were using sdr or ddr thats all.

 

[GISconsultant]

WOOHOO! Buz rocks. He was the man. I needed to run the SISide.exe
Thanks everyone

Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000
DirectX Version 8.1

Mobo Manufacturer ECS
Mobo Model K7S5A
AGP Rates (Current/Available) 4x / 1x 2x 4x

CPU AMD Athlon(tm) XP/MP/4 1410 MHz
FSB 66 MHz
Memory 256 MB

Graphics Chipset NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
Driver Name NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
Driver Version 6.13.10.2832
Video Memory 64 MB





CPU Score 4209
Memory Score 2086
HDD Score 881

CPU Tests


Jpeg Decoding 14.3 MPixels/s
Zlib Compression 5.6 MB/s
Zlib Decompression 63.5 MB/s
Text Search 134.2 KRounds/s
Audio Conversion 78.6 KB/s
3D Vector Calculation 59.2 FPS

Memory Tests


Raw Block Read - 3072KB 790.4 MB/s
Raw Block Read - 536KB 791.5 MB/s
Raw Block Read - 384KB 793.0 MB/s
Raw Block Read - 48KB 17370.9 MB/s
Raw Block Read - 6KB 16979.3 MB/s
Raw Block Write - 3072KB 367.3 MB/s
Raw Block Write - 1536KB 348.0 MB/s
Raw Block Write - 384KB 371.8 MB/s
Raw Block Write - 48KB 10906.7 MB/s
Raw Block Write - 6KB 10722.3 MB/s
Raw Block Modify - 3072KB 310.3 MB/s
Raw Block Modify - 536KB 291.9 MB/s
Raw Block Modify - 384KB 316.5 MB/s
Raw Block Modify - 48KB 5838.9 MB/s
Raw Block Modify - 6KB 5836.1 MB/s
Random Access - 24576 (1536KB) items 533.3 MB/s
Random Access - 12288 (768KB) items 535.2 MB/s
Random Access - 6144 (384KB) items 540.0 MB/s
Random Access - 1536 (96KB) items 3294.5 MB/s
Random Access - 768 (48KB) items 5111.3 MB/s
Random Access - 96 (6KB) items 5110.7 MB/s
Video - 1 line 622.5 FPS
Video - 4 lines 509.3 FPS
Video - 16 lines 293.2 FPS
Video - 32 lines 187.3 FPS

Hard Disk Tests


Cached File Write 20.8 MB/s
Uncached File Write 18.7 MB/s
Cached File Read 33.2 MB/s
Uncached File Read 38.6 MB/s
File Copy 13.8 MB/s

Crunch Tests


Jpeg Decoding 8.7 MPixels/s
Raw Block Modify - 3072KB 136.9 MB/s
Blit Test 138.6 FPS

 

[Buz2b]

Glad you got it straightened out. Have fun!