i recently upgraded from a celeron 366 to a p3 1ghz (133bus)
my motherboard was an asus p3bf - i asked around to see if this motherboard supported the 1ghz p3, and the general consent was that it does, but not officially. I figured, hey might as well give it a shot, worst case scenario, i have to buy a new motherboard, which i'd have done anyway had it not supported it at all.
So after a bios flash, and a Slot1 - socket370 adapter, i get my computer to post.
fsb stable at 133 mhz, 256 cas2 pc133 ram, and a geforce2 gts. All seems fine. The only concern i had was that the agp was running at a toasty 89mhz (the asus p3bf only has a 1/1 or 2/3 divider for the agp)
Well the card seemed stable, so i figured hey i'll be getting some extra speed out of it at 89 mhz.
So i load up quake3, and q3touney4 (that spot where if u look at the corner of the wall it dips to 80 fps on even fast machines) - didn't budge below 125 fps! i was ecstatic.
So i load up a game of rocket arena3, and i notice that my frame rate was incredibly inconsitent - kept dropping to 80 or 90 fps -
i then ran a time demo - really strange - it would literally GLIDE through certain parts of the demo, and the chunk up (not ram hitch chunk - just fps chunk) - seemed as if there was a massive bottleneck somewhere. Note: these chunks occured at the same spots in the demo - so it's not as if it's random frame dropping. In picmip5 640 resolution, 32 bit color and textures, i got a mere 80 frames per second
(with the latest detonators)
I then loaded up 3dmark 2001 - on the default settings (1024X768X32bit) i got 591 - this is on a p3 1ghz@133 with 256 cas2 ram and a geforce2 GTS!
I remember hearing somewhere that overclocking your agp can actually cause slowdowns.
So... the question is this: Does anyone know what's going on here?
and the warning... asus p3bf + p31ghz might be a bad choice for u
my motherboard was an asus p3bf - i asked around to see if this motherboard supported the 1ghz p3, and the general consent was that it does, but not officially. I figured, hey might as well give it a shot, worst case scenario, i have to buy a new motherboard, which i'd have done anyway had it not supported it at all.
So after a bios flash, and a Slot1 - socket370 adapter, i get my computer to post.
fsb stable at 133 mhz, 256 cas2 pc133 ram, and a geforce2 gts. All seems fine. The only concern i had was that the agp was running at a toasty 89mhz (the asus p3bf only has a 1/1 or 2/3 divider for the agp)
Well the card seemed stable, so i figured hey i'll be getting some extra speed out of it at 89 mhz.
So i load up quake3, and q3touney4 (that spot where if u look at the corner of the wall it dips to 80 fps on even fast machines) - didn't budge below 125 fps! i was ecstatic.
So i load up a game of rocket arena3, and i notice that my frame rate was incredibly inconsitent - kept dropping to 80 or 90 fps -
i then ran a time demo - really strange - it would literally GLIDE through certain parts of the demo, and the chunk up (not ram hitch chunk - just fps chunk) - seemed as if there was a massive bottleneck somewhere. Note: these chunks occured at the same spots in the demo - so it's not as if it's random frame dropping. In picmip5 640 resolution, 32 bit color and textures, i got a mere 80 frames per second
(with the latest detonators)I then loaded up 3dmark 2001 - on the default settings (1024X768X32bit) i got 591 - this is on a p3 1ghz@133 with 256 cas2 ram and a geforce2 GTS!
I remember hearing somewhere that overclocking your agp can actually cause slowdowns.
So... the question is this: Does anyone know what's going on here?
and the warning... asus p3bf + p31ghz might be a bad choice for u
Facebook
Twitter