Not enough ram causing low 3D Mark scores?

[Armageddon415]

This is my system:
Celeron 466
64 Megs of pc100 CAS2
10 gig 5400RPM hard drive
32 meg Radeon DDR
Windows 98SE

Thats basically the important stuff, I got a score of about 2200, is that normal for my system? And what can i get to get that score higher? Overclocking the Radeon seems to make the score drop into the 1900's.

 

[Howard]

When you overclock the Radeon, make sure that the core and memory clocks are the same!


BTW, 3dmark2000 sucks as a benchmark.

 

[Armageddon415]

The clock and core were the same when i overclocked

 

[Moz]

It is probably your CPU holding you back.. around 2000-2500 is what I would expect on a similar system.

 

[Rand]

Your processor is clearly holding you back. Overclocking the Radeon isnt going to yield you a thing with only a Celeron 466.
It does seem like a realistic score for that system though.

 

[Armageddon415]

I thought it was either my cpu or RAM, but is my score suppose to drop when i overclock the Radeon?

 

[Daaavo]

What is your AGP aperature size set to in the BIOS?

 

[Armageddon415]

This is what powerstrip reports:
AGP aperture - 64 MB
AGP transfer mechanism - DMA
AGP non-local memory - 28.9 MB
AGP revision - 1.00
AGP transfer rates supported - 1x, 2x
Current AGP transfer rate - 2x