Hi all: I just overclocked my Duron 600 on my Abit KT7 to a speed of 961 mhz, Sounds great right? ummm welll.. I can not hardly see any differance in speed in my 3d games. Also my Diamond video card has a benchmark program, on the 600 default CPU speed I show 117 FPS, and on the 961 speed I show 149 FPS. An improvment yes, but sure not 50% better?? In Janes WWII
Fighters 640x480,16 bit all graphics on high. I can barely tell any differance in the FPS readings. I drop to 22 FPS at 600 MHZ cpu, and 25 FPS at the 961 mhz speed. This is when firing gun at ground, (seems to make a huge diff in FPS). Normally In the game I run around 38-100 FPS depending on graphics on screen, but again can hardly tell any speed differance, the low FPS figures are both the same no matter which speeds I run the CPU.
My 961MHZ CPU temp runs at 42c after 5 hrs of 3d games. I think this is not bad correct? At 600 mhz I run at 33c after 5 hrs.
I am running 100MHZ memory, is my slower memory choking off my system? The memory is Silicon Mountain Memory SMM 2303-3491
I have a week 36 Duron CPU
Diamond Banshee Video card 16 meg onboard PCI bus
Taisol HFS CEK734092
El Cheapo, non Grande' 250 watt power supply
I will post all my bios settings
SOFTMENU III SETUP
Multiplier 8.5
CPU FSB/PIC 105/35
CPU FSB 8
Core Voltage 1.725 (lockups at 1.700 volts)
I/O Voltage 3.30
Fast CPU Command Decode FAST
Cpu Drive Strength 2
Enhanced Chip Performance ENABLED (1 fps speed improvment)
Force 4 way Interleave ENABLED ( no improvment)
Enable Dram 4k- page mode enabled (1 fps increase)
Dram Clock Host clock (host+ pci clock locks up)
ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES
Bank 0/1 Dram timing sdram 8/10 ns (WILL NOT run on any others)
Delay Dram Interval 2 way ( 1fps increase)
Delay Dram Read latch auto
MD driving strength HI
Sdram cycle stregth 3
Memory hole disabled
Everything else is the defaults for PCI settings
I have USB disabled
Finally not using the multiplier at all leaving it at 600 MHZ
I changed the FPS speeds only.
600 MHZ I show 118 FPS (diamond video test)
606 119 fps
630 122 fps
640 125 fps
708 135 mhz
I am getting 135 FPS at 708 MHZ and 149 FPS at 961 MHZ
Not a big differance with the higher cpu speed
I would throw the Diamind benchmark out with the bath water, however in the WWII fighters game I also dont see much speed improvment from 600 MHZ to 961 so......
My apologys for the overly long posting.
Admin@MntnWeb.Com
Fighters 640x480,16 bit all graphics on high. I can barely tell any differance in the FPS readings. I drop to 22 FPS at 600 MHZ cpu, and 25 FPS at the 961 mhz speed. This is when firing gun at ground, (seems to make a huge diff in FPS). Normally In the game I run around 38-100 FPS depending on graphics on screen, but again can hardly tell any speed differance, the low FPS figures are both the same no matter which speeds I run the CPU.
My 961MHZ CPU temp runs at 42c after 5 hrs of 3d games. I think this is not bad correct? At 600 mhz I run at 33c after 5 hrs.
I am running 100MHZ memory, is my slower memory choking off my system? The memory is Silicon Mountain Memory SMM 2303-3491
I have a week 36 Duron CPU
Diamond Banshee Video card 16 meg onboard PCI bus
Taisol HFS CEK734092
El Cheapo, non Grande' 250 watt power supply
I will post all my bios settings
SOFTMENU III SETUP
Multiplier 8.5
CPU FSB/PIC 105/35
CPU FSB 8
Core Voltage 1.725 (lockups at 1.700 volts)
I/O Voltage 3.30
Fast CPU Command Decode FAST
Cpu Drive Strength 2
Enhanced Chip Performance ENABLED (1 fps speed improvment)
Force 4 way Interleave ENABLED ( no improvment)
Enable Dram 4k- page mode enabled (1 fps increase)
Dram Clock Host clock (host+ pci clock locks up)
ADVANCED CHIPSET FEATURES
Bank 0/1 Dram timing sdram 8/10 ns (WILL NOT run on any others)
Delay Dram Interval 2 way ( 1fps increase)
Delay Dram Read latch auto
MD driving strength HI
Sdram cycle stregth 3
Memory hole disabled
Everything else is the defaults for PCI settings
I have USB disabled
Finally not using the multiplier at all leaving it at 600 MHZ
I changed the FPS speeds only.
600 MHZ I show 118 FPS (diamond video test)
606 119 fps
630 122 fps
640 125 fps
708 135 mhz
I am getting 135 FPS at 708 MHZ and 149 FPS at 961 MHZ
Not a big differance with the higher cpu speed
I would throw the Diamind benchmark out with the bath water, however in the WWII fighters game I also dont see much speed improvment from 600 MHZ to 961 so......
My apologys for the overly long posting.
Admin@MntnWeb.Com
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