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10th August 2003, 12:02
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|  Performance new computer. I just upgraded my pc, here's what I have now. P4 2800C HT Thermalright SLK 900 + Papst 92mm Asus p4p800 dlx Bios 1.08, Hyperpath enabled. 2 x 512 PC3200 DDR Twinmos Gainward Geforce4 ti4400 128mb + Zalman heatpipe 2 x Maxtor Sata 80 Gig ( Raid 0, 16kb cluster ) Couple of case fans Thermaltake Xaser III 480 Watt psu Chieftec Maxi Audigy 2 And some other stuff Now I would expect that this system would perform quite well in games, but Vice City sometimes runs choppy in 1024*768 without Fsaa, and Midnight Club 2 simply isn't playable in 1152... Is this normal? 3D mark 2001 score non OC : 13172 ( how is this? ) Then I tried Oc'ing quickly just for fun. System now running @ 3361 MHz ( 14*240 ) rockstable, which I think is quite nice  But 3d Mark score now only is : 13470 That's an increase of 300 points... So I guess my bottleneck is the videocard? I just think it's weird that VC won't even run smooth on this system... Even @ 1024 w/o fsaa. I have all the latest drivers etc, system idle now 39° cpu, 38° case. ( Normal weather : 33° cpu, 32° case ) Thx for the advice! Greetz, Tremor. |
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10th August 2003, 13:38
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| the VC is the bottleneck, no doubt about that but try to tweak your system a little bit, on tweaktown are some good quides, they'll help a lot over here  |
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10th August 2003, 13:44
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| Thought so... Damn. I'll have a look at those tweaks. But is my 3D Mark score normal? And is the slight increase in score normal with a 500 MHz oc? I still think it's strange my VC is "too slow"... They are still selling the Geforce Ti4200, which should be slower than my card... Is the difference with let's say a 9700pro that large? Is it still possible to buy a 9500 somewhere and make it run like a 9700 pro? |
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10th August 2003, 14:19
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| [M] Reviewer  Join Date: May 2002
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 | did you do some tweaking in your bios ?
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10th August 2003, 14:41
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| Tweaking as in? I set the aperture size to 256, disabled all the onboard crap, set sata to be raid and bootable, enables hyperpath... I set the rest to automatic... Except FSB, which is now at 240... I can also set AGP/PCI speed etc, but I just left it automatic. Do you have something particular in mind that I should tweak?  |
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10th August 2003, 14:47
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| i can play GTA VC without any problems on a 2.2Ghz AMD 512MB ram and a geforce4 ti4200 at 1024*768@32Bit trails turned off? cause that was a big problem in GTA3. you could try overclocking you're videocard also... |
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10th August 2003, 15:17
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| Hmmm weird. Since the overclock VC is more smooth and Midnight Club 2 plays nice @ 1152... How the hell is this possible? :grum: Can't be possible that a 2800 is too slow and a 3400 is fast enough, can it? The hell with it, I'll live with it. Maybe new Vid card once I have more money  Not gonna try oc'ing the card, because I have Zalman Heatpipe installed, and I don't want it to go up in flames... ( although that would be a good excuse for a new one :grin: ) |
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