speed differences..

[phill9700]

can someone help me?
at the moment, my pc is a little older than i want, but works great..
the setup is the following..

tbird @ 1.33ghz (10 x 133) @ 1.75vcore
512mbs of PC133 memory @ turbo setting
few other options tweaked in the bios
AGP set to 4x
graphics card was set to standard settings (geforce 4 ti4200 128mbs 8x AGP) using graphics drivers 41.09

now i release that the graphics card might be 'overkill' or 'over powering' this system but what you gonna do?
anyway, i use win 98 and xp pro as i have seperated the partitions off and have a dual boot setup. i have some older games that i like in 98 and they wont play in xp pro (like driver and a old ish, need for speed - road challenge).
anyways, after buying a new graphics card i did a 3dmark 2001se benchmark on it see what it was like in 98. the score came out at just over 7000 points. i did the same test and had the same settings as before and the score came out just under the 8500 point mark in xp pro. why would there be such a difference between the two operating systems? has anyone any ideas of what could be the problem with the performance in win 98?

also for some reason, my KR7A-133 motherboard as limited itself to a 2x agp speed rather than the 4x that it used to be, if i can find a bios update, should this fix this problem? i dont think its making a huge difference when it comes to the performance (the graphics card is a geforce 3 ti 200) anyone have any ideas on that?

also i had bought my girl friend the same card (geforce 4 model) and shes scoring 14100+, is that a good score? she has a nf7-s with a xp1700 @ 2.2ghz with 1gig of corsair xms 3200 LL memory. the graphics card is a gainward geforce 4 ti 4200 128mbs version.
thanks to all that reply and im sorry for a few boring questions!

 

[MichaelD]

Um, your thread kinda skips around a little...but I'll throw this in.

Windows98 = HORRIBLE memory management. Leaks, not "releasing" memory back when apps are closed, etc .
Windows XP = 1 million light years ahead of Windows 98 in every category, especially memory management. XP itself is a memory hog, but if you have a lot of it, it manges it well.

 

[phill9700]

well, still not sure as to why it would be such a difference in the scores...
also, does anyone have any ideas why my kr7A is only working at 2x agp rather than 4x? i have just downloaded the latest release for the bios and still no change.. someone please help!!

 

[Link19]

Windows XP yes does require more memory, but manages it a gozillion times better than any of the Windows 9X/Me family of Operating Systems. Windows XP only requires a minimum of 64MB of system RAM although Microsoft reccomends the minimum to be 128MB. You can narrow down Windows XP's bloated install by turning off unneeded services and features to have it use less RAM. 64MB is an ok minimum these days when memory has gotten a lot cheaper because just about everybody has atleast 128MB or more of RAM in their system right now.

 

[butch84]

try installing the via 4in1 drivers for bith win98 and winxp, if you havent yet. that could limit your agp to 2x.

 

[phill9700]

well it was a problem in the actuall bios..
i have just fixed the problem, i think i might have flashed it with the wrong bios and that made the problem, its working ok now using 4x agp..
thanks for the advance tho!