...Meet the TBird with a 66Mhz bus?

[terabithian]

...what is going on here?

Also, I got a score of ~3500 marks with my system (under 3D Mark 2001):
Athlon TBird 950
256 MB DDR RAM
ECS K7S5A
Gainward GeForce 2 Ti (normal clockings)
Monster Sound MX400

Is this where it should be?

 

[Egrimm]

Your link doesn't work, so I cannot say something to it.

I'm sorry to say it, but yes, that 3dMark 2001 score is what you should expect.
In my old rig with a 1,4Ghz T-Bird on a KT133A based board and a oc'ed GF2 Pro card (240/470) I got 3600. Eventhough my system only used sdr-ram it had a much more powerfull cpu. On my KT266A based mobo with a XP1600+ I got 4500.
I'm sorry to say it, but you shouldn't expect much more from a GF2-generation card with that cpu.

 

[terabithian]

I really am not dissapointed with the scores, because I just upgraded from a P2-350 with a PCI TNT...

And here is an image that should work... damn geocities.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

The 66mhz bus question under 3DMark has come up frequently of late. Just ignore it because it's, as I'm sure you deduced, misreporting the FSB speed. You should read the Anandtech Nvidia Geforce2/3 Titanium roundup as it'll give you good data on what you can juice out of your card by overclocking it. For instance

<< At 290MHz/480MHz the GeForce2 Ti 200 performed 18.6% better than the stock clocked card, increasing gameplay by 24.3FPS. >>

That's a nice little pick up IMO.
link

 

[Egrimm]

Yeah, don't bother with the fsb reported from 3dMark, it says my fsb is 133 when it's 150 (set in bios, checked in Wcpuid) and it also says the cpu only runs 1540 Mhz when Wcpud says it runs 1575 (which it should, 150x10.5).

 

[Duvie]

MIne and just about everybody who has an ecs sis735 board reports same thing....It isn't recognizing correctly for some reason, probably since sis735 is such a samll market they didn't lend support to it.

I have checked mine in cpuid and sandra and they both read it correctly....


What are you running to get 150fsb on the ecs? I can only get 143 stable with my 1.4tbird...Did you do the volatge mod?

 

[Egrimm]

3dMark 2001 isn't only having problems with Sis735 boards, the board I referred to is a MSI K7T Pro2 RU based on the KT266A chipset, and being Via it shouldn't be considered "too small a market-share" to be worth making the prog work with.
This is the mobo of my main rig, and the reason I got it was because I thought my K7S5A was bad (which it turned out it wasn't, that darn DragonOrb had killed my 1.4 T-Bird) and that I wanted to oc and not have to solder to rise the vcore to get the best oc.

I have a ECS K7S5A system though, 1Ghz Duron with 256Mb ddr. Haven't got it hooked up right now though, so I cannot check to see if I have the same problem. And no, I haven't tried the oc bios so I don't know if it'll run 150fsb stable.