Optimising settings for T-bird 1.2Ghz on Asus A7V133 M/b - Need Advice!

[roscon]

Need advice in optimising my new system.

My new System:

T-Bird 1.2 Ghz (9.5 Multiplier, 133 FSB),FHS - GlobalWin FOP 38 (noisy mutha).
Asus A7V-133 m/B - Bios - Rev.1001c., VIA 4in1 divers v.4.24(2).
Hyundai 256 Mb PC-133 (Cas 3). Auto settings in bios.
IBM HDD 45 Gb ATA-100 7200 rpm - Promise ATA 100 Controller - latest drivers).
Quantum Fireball 13.5 Gb HDD (Standard IDE).
Pioneer 8x DVD 32x CDRom.
Matsushita 4x Wr 8x R - CDR.
Iomega 100Mb internal ATAPI Zip drive.
Asus 6800 Deluxe AGP Graphics card - 32Mb DDR. Detnator 3-ver 6.5a Drivers
S/B Live Sound. Latest Drivers.
Garnet 2100 PCI Satelite Card. Latest drivers.
Intel Pro-100+ PCI network adapter.
Lian Li aluminium case - 3 case fans.
Dual boot Win2K & Win98se.
DirectX 8.0a

I've spent two days searching forums and downloading latest drivers.

Problem: When I run 3D Mark2000 Benchmark (1024 x 768 -16bit), my highest score under Win98 is only "5800". And under Win2K is only "4700". Most tests in same spec. systems get an average of over "6500". My mates, 700 Duron - A7V - 128 Mb sys. scores "5500".

Also acccording to Asus Probe utility - CPU temp at idle is 57 degC (134 F) and M/b temp is 34 degC (93 F). Seems too high!!

There is no noticable difference if I run the standard Multiplier setting of 12.0 by 100 FSB to 9.0 by 133 FSB.

• Will playing with the RAM settings in Bios Help?
  Will upgrading the Bios help optimise my system?
  Are there any other drivers I need to load other than the ones mentioned above?

Would Appreciate any advice!!

 

[nealh]

first off ignore the Asus probe temps they are 8-10C too high ...check the bios temps

You may want to change the bios to 1.002c on the US asus site it has better ram performance settings but with my Mosel pc143 ram the system crashes when set over 144 cas2. I can not say whether the problem exists with Hyundai ram...think it is just the mosel ram

Also you can update to Via 4.28 final 4 in 1...

 

[xcourse]

Per Viahardware.com, the VIA 4.28 4in1 chipset drivers are not the way to go for systems using Win98, although they work well for Win2k. On my system, I get better Sandra HDD scores using the 4.26 drivers. Since you're dual-booting with both of the above-mentioned OS's, using the 4.28 drivers will bias your performance toward Win2k. There is a beta version of 4.29 available, but I haven't heard anything about it yet. Good luck!

 

[DARRIN]

You don't have Asus probe running while doing your 3dmark do you? Anything running will lower your score. Do a ctrl+alt+delete to see what all is running. Should only be systray and explorer.