Who has a KT133 (not A) based mobo w/ a GF3 (not Ti)?? Questions/Comparisons ***POST YOUR 3DMARK2001 SCORES***

[JustStarting]

OK- system as below in my rig.

1).How are you scoring in 3DMark2001?? I'm wondering if the limited OC'ing of this mobo and the fact no DDR ram are keeping my scores around 6000?



2).I noticed my scores in the pixel and vertex shader were very low in comparison to others- what could bring those scores up?? Link here.


Problem Solved set AGP aperture to 128- thanks Extasy

 

[Compellor]

Something is wrong with your benchmark scores. I just did a comparison and I'm getting much higher numbers even though I'm running a Ti 500 o/c at 260/565. Try upping your FSB to 110 MHz. The KT7 mobo can easily do it with good qaulity RAM. I've had it as high as 115 MHz stable. Use NVmax and do some tweaking. I'm getting the impression you have Vsync turned on because I get really low scores if it is.

 

[JustStarting]

I can only get to 108 stable. I'm using crucial memory- good enough. Vsync is off. No FSAA. Kind of lost here. Good , but could be better.

 

[JackBurton]

Did you check in Sandra to see if your memory score is on par?

 

[pay]

I have an A7V with a Athlon 1000 and a GF3 @ 250/500 and I only got 51xx at default settings

 

[Xtasy]

make your agp aperture 128.

 

[JustStarting]

Memory is scoring 488/578- pretty good for a KT133 I think. I'll try the 128 arpeture size. Why would my scores for pixel and vertex shaders be so low??

 

[Compellor]

<< Memory is scoring 488/578- pretty good for a KT133 I think. I'll try the 128 arpeture size. Why would my scores for pixel and vertex shaders be so low?? >>



Check your PM for my benchmark at 220/460. I noticed you're using 24bit Z-buffer depth; use 32bit as it's the default one.

 

[JustStarting]

Thanks to Xtasy and Compellor. I set the aperture to 128 in bios and all is well. Scored 5926 @ 220/500. Tried 108 FSB, but it kicks me out to the desktop during car chase. Think I can break 6000 OC'ing the card a little more and CPU to 1300 @ 104 FSB ( ram only set to 8/10ns- should have set to turbo). My GF 256 DDR would run the test at 108 FSB, but not the GF3- strange??

 

[audiophan]

my KT133 board doesn't support AGP speeds higher than 2x AGP

is that possibly a hinderance?

 

[JustStarting]

Well, just ran some benchies. Very satisfied with my system here. My GF3 doesn't like FSB settings over 104-105. Must be the AGP bus is too high- I need a KT266A mobo like a KR7A (drool, drool) that allows me to run at 133 FSB and all cards at default mhz settings. Anyone care to post up some scores on their KT133 (not A) mobos???

 

[Compellor]

<< Well, just ran some benchies. Very satisfied with my system here. My GF3 doesn't like FSB settings over 104-105. Must be the AGP bus is too high- I need a KT266A mobo like a KR7A (drool, drool) that allows me to run at 133 FSB and all cards at default mhz settings. Anyone care to post up some scores on their KT133 (not A) mobos??? >>



Looking good! Here's my most recent benchmark:

Latest Benchmark

I had a problem with my GeForce 2 GTS whenever I went past 105 MHz FSB. I didn't get lockups but had graphical glitches in games. My new GF3 Ti 500 has no problems with it at 110 MHz FSB. Oh, the KR7A is most likely my next motherboard purchase. I've had great success with the KT7 and it's about time to move on.

 

[Compellor]

<< my KT133 board doesn't support AGP speeds higher than 2x AGP

is that possibly a hinderance? >>



It should support AGP 4X. Install the lastest VIA 4-in-1 drivers and make sure you select "Turbo" mode for the AGP driver. This will set it to AGP 4X.

 

[JustStarting]

Compellor- looks great! How high did you have the card clocked for that run?? Mine was 220/510- I love this card and don't want to push it too far with stock cooling (think I could go farther safely??). Next mobo is KR7A here too. Going with Raid also. I used it for 6 months on this mobo and miss it now. Applications are soooo fast to load- I do a lot of graphics work

 

[Compellor]

<< Compellor- looks great! How high did you have the card clocked for that run?? Mine was 220/510- I love this card and don't want to push it too far with stock cooling (think I could go farther safely??). Next mobo is KR7A here too. Going with Raid also. I used it for 6 months on this mobo and miss it now. Applications are soooo fast to load- I do a lot of graphics work >>



I had it running at 260/565; stock speed for the GF3 Ti 500 is 240/500. The best way to overclock safely is do 5 Mhz jumps until it either locks up the machine or crashes. The biggest fear is frying the memory on it. Use caution!

 

[JustStarting]

Compellor- Obviously comparing the speeds we have our cards running at the mobo is the limiting factor for us. With your card clocked that well on a KT266A mobo you'd probably reach 8000-8500 easy. I think your Ti500 would far outshine my GF3 then instead of by 200 or so points- higher OC'er. I'm just chicken to push it any farther.