why is my geforce3 so slow?

[Neoplasticity]

I just built an athlon xp 1700+ system with 512 DDR and a visiontek geforce3 Ti200

i overclocked the geforce 3 to 220/500 and i only get 7092 on 3dmark2001se this is the AVERAGE of the systems with an athlon xp 1700+ and a geforce3ti200

when i compare the individual tests, im WAY slow in the high polygon count tests... especially the one with 8 lights is very jerky.

i've tried the detonators from nvidias site and also the beta 27.43 drivers.. no difference in performance.

 

[DARRIN]

Your score is about right. the 8 light test you are talking about is jerky on every machine I've seen.

 

[Theslowone]

The geforce 3 ti200 label you can't go by to much since most of them have theirs running g3 leveles or g3 ti500 levels.

So thats sounds about right, almost everyone i know ocs there ti200.

 

[dakata24]

hmm.. before tweaking/overclocking my xp 1700+, i was getting 7003 on 3dmark2001se (1024x768x32).. but since youre overclocking your video card i would think you'd be getting higher scores..

right now, i have my pc overclocked to 1.628Ghz (11x148fsb) and my gainward gf3 ti200 (using 23.11 drivers) overclocked to 250/550 getting 8820 on 3dmark2001se

just tweaked the card somemore to 251/261.. not much of a tweak.. wonder what a increase in 10 on the memory will do..

hmmm. have you tweaked you memory settings in the bios? other than that, not sure what the problem might be..

 

[Jman13]

That's about right for stock levels. With nothing tweaked at all, my 1700+ with ti200 nets me only 6535.

Once I OCed my vid card to good levels, I got 7428.

Then I bumped my processor to 1540, OCed the vid card just a bit more, and (by far the biggest improvement) I changed my RAM timings to be more agressive and shot up to 8103 in 3DMark2k1SE

So, your stuff is about right.

 

[Neoplasticity]

thanks guys

now i feel a little better

maybe i'll go play with my bios memory setting some... i changed my CAS to 2 from 2.5 and enabled AGP fast write and my score went up to 7158 so maybe i'll change my other memory timings and see if i can bump it up some more.

I spend WAY too much time tweaking this thing....

btw, what kind of cooling are you guys using to oc your athlon?

my athlon runs at 47 with a copper heatsink and two case fans and when i tried bumping fsb to 138, it would run well but i get these random reboots every once in a while... so i had to go back down to stock

 

[dakata24]

im using an alpha pal8045 with a 80mm sunon fan (39cfm)

my case temps ~26C, cpu temps ~35C idle, ~42C load. that's mobo sensors though.

random reboots? hmm. could be the "infinite loop" bug. symptoms for that are bsod and reboots. so it might not be because of overclocking.. i had my pc reboot randomly twice since i built it a month ago. alittle annoying, but nothing that i worry about. how often were you getting them anyways?

usually before i do a 3dmark2001se test, i defrag my drive just in case just for the heck of it. good to hear your scores improved slightly

 

[Jman13]

I'm using the retail Athlon XP HSF. Temps are about 48C SETI, 50C after gaming for a long time. My temps went up about 2C since I replaced my Antec 80mm fans with Silencers. My case gets about 15cmf less flowing through it, but the reduced noise is worth it. My machine will boot and run stuff fine at 1605 (146 fsb) for an hour or so, but then will lock hard, so I just keep it at 1800+ levels.

 

[Neoplasticity]

any way to fix this infinite loop bug?