Poll: MSI StarForce 815 Geforce 2 GTS and FPS...

[devoed]

Every article I have read about this card has given great reviews......except for the Mem Bottleneck....

Q3 BenchMark Using /timedemo 1 /demo demo001
Anandtech says that this Card can do 92.8 FPS in 1024x768x32
Anandtech Article
THEIR SETUP
CPU AMD Athlon 750MHz
Motherboard ASUS K7A-RM
Memory 128MB PC133 NEC SDRAM (NEC -7E Chips)
Hard Drive IBM Deskstar 75GXP 35.0GB 7200 RPM Ultra ATA 100
Video Card MSI StarForce 815 GeForce 2 32MB (default clock - 200/166 DDR)
Operating System Windows 98 SE
Video Drivers MSI StarForce 815 GeForce 2 32MB - Detonator3 6.18


My Benchmark 80.0 FPS
My Setup
CPU AMD Athlon 850MHz
Motherboard MSI 6330 KT7
Memory 512MB PC133 Generic Cas 2 Bank Interleave 4-way
Hard Drive Western Digital 40GB 5400 RPM Ultra ATA 100
Video Card MSI StarForce 815 GeForce 2 32MB (default clock - 200/166 DDR)
Operating System Windows 2000 (5.0.2195) Service Pack 2
Video Drivers GeForce 2 32MB - Detonator3 11.01

Rest of My System Information (NO OVERCLOCKING AT ALL!!)
-Antialiasing TURNED OFF
-D3D Tab in Advanced Settings ALL DEFAULT
-OPENGL Tab ALL DEFAULTS Except VSYNC set to ALWAYS OFF and Anisotropic Filtering ENABLED
-Using DirectX 8.0a
-AGP Bus Version = 2.0 Running at 4x(264MHz)
-AGP Aperature 256MB
-MSI 6330 Does not support SBA(SideBand Addressing) or AGP FW's in the BIOS
-Windows 2000 setup as ACPI (Everything on IRQ 7)
-using Via 4.31 installed AGP in Turbo

MY QUAKE 3 Setup
Graphics Settings: Custom
GL Driver: Default
GL Extensions: ON
Video Mode: 1024x768
Color Depth: 32 bit
FullScreen: ON
Lighting: LightMap
Geometric Detail: High
Texture Detail: Full
Texture Quality: 32 bit
Texture Filter: Trilinear
Pixel Format: Color(32 bits) z(24 bits) stencil(0 bits)
Vendor: NVidia Corporation 1.2.2 Geforce 2 GTS/AGP/3dNOW!
Network Data Rate: LAN/DSL/xDSL
com_maxFPS: 350
Sync Every Frame: OFF
High Q Sky: ON
Marks on Walls: ON etc...........
EVERYTHING IS MAXED


QUESTION #1
Is there a reason for the 12.0 FPS Difference.......? or is this a NORMAL FPS for this card?

QUESTION #2
Is there a specific .cfg that Anandtech uses to benchmark........? and if so what is the URL.....


Thanks
DevoeD

 

[devoed]

Correct AnandTech Web Page

 

[devoed]

Anyone have any input on this?

 

[CheshireCat]

there is one hell of a difference... the Anadtech benchmakr was made with win98 and yours was made with win2k...