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    Ultimate Member Giblet Plus!'s Avatar
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    Originally posted by spyman
    How did you get a 3dmark2001 score of 16500?
    I have pretty much the exact set up as you and only get 13500 and my video card is overclocked a bit more than yours 460/340. The only other difference is my ram timings 8,4,4,2.5 which can't possibley make up 3000 more points. Either there's something really wrong with my pc or you miss typed that score.

    Anyone get a simmilar score? If so I need some help configuring my bios settings.
    3D01 loves memory bandwidth, and your extremely lax timings are really hurting you there. Up the voltage and drop the timings.
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    "3D01 loves memory bandwidth, and your extremely lax timings are really hurting you there. Up the voltage and drop the timings."

    I'm not sure that I can get any more out of it. It's kingsmax pc-3200, not the highest quality of ram but was all I could afford. Does the trick fine when playing games, but I guess it sucks for benchmarking.

    Any suggestions on what my timings should be/ can be with this ram? Is thier any sites that show the specs of different ram manufacturers?

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    Originally posted by spyman
    Does the trick fine when playing games, but I guess it sucks for benchmarking.
    Are you more concerned with benchmarking...or playing games.

    Sounds like this is a self answered one...

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    Originally posted by spyman

    I'm not sure that I can get any more out of it. It's kingsmax pc-3200, not the highest quality of ram but was all I could afford. Does the trick fine when playing games, but I guess it sucks for benchmarking.
    Nobody is forcing you to keep the timings at the settings your motherboard automatically put them at. Play around with it some and see what's stable. You can bump the vdimm setting up to 2.8-2.9V and be fine.
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    Nice, upgraded from that weak Antec 380 to the more solid Fortron 350.
    Last edited by Crashman; 02-24-2004 at 09:01 PM.

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    Sorry...crashman...but I bet if you spec'd out both those PSUs...they'd be within a few watts of eachother.

    Antec and Fortron are known for actually underrating their PSUs...

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    Real world testing will show the Fortron 350 goes around 410W, while the Antec 380 goes around 390W. I just like picking on Antec because:
    1.) I've had several of their lower budget supplies **** out far below their rating, they started loosing voltage at around 70% rated load.
    2.) Their better True Power series (and related supplies using the same internals) are overpriced
    3.) They are way over-recommended.

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    Hey...to each is own...


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    i've had decent luck with generic psu's. but i'm not exactly running a radeon
    9800 pro and tons of hdd's either...


    --'spazz

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    That's one route I won't go...spazz.

    In a lot of cases, when the PSU goes.....it takes the mobo/AGP/RAM with it...one or the other(s) that is....

    I'd rather not take that chance...

    But....I do see your point!!

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    thnx dajogejr

    concern noted....... d'oh.

    well, i may need to upgrade to an
    nforce2 mobo and better cpu sooner
    than i thought...

    (gigabyte ga7vax, athlon 1800+,
    radeon 7500le,256m of saddo ram, 80g maxtor hdd, 16X lg dvdrom, 12X lg cd burner, btw...

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    Nice setup, but Im curious about the cpu oc though. I have a 2100+ TBred B running at 2171MHz (166FSB 13x). I would think that you should be able to run that thing a little higher, but I could be wrong. I'm getting 8175MIPS ins Sandra 2004 CPU Arithmetic. My setup is actually really cheap

    Generic case with 120mm (side) and 80mm (front) intake fans, 80mm (rear)and Slot Blower fans
    CG 500w PSU
    ABIT NF7 w/ stock NB sink and Vantec copper SB sink
    OnBoard Realtek AC'97 Sound
    Athlon XP 2100+ Tbred B OC'ed to 2.171GHz (166MHz x 13)
    Thermaltake Volcano 9 HSF @ ~5192RPM
    Radeon 9500 PRO 128MB at stock speed
    768MB ultra-generic PC2700 DDR Ram
    120MB Seagate 7200RPM 8MB UATA
    Liteon LTN526D CD-ROM
    Optorite CW4801 CD-RW
    Optorite DD0201 DVD±RW

    I can't complain about anything, performance is great and stabilty is rock solid. Temps average about 42 idle and 47 load. I'd post 3DMark scores but I don't use them.. My next purchase will be 400MHz DDR so I can up the FSB to 200 and see what this puppy will REALLY do
    ABIT NF7
    Athlon XP 2100+ Tbred B OC'ed to 2.171GHz (166MHz x 13)
    Thermaltake Volcano 9 HSF @ ~5192RPM
    Radeon 9500 PRO 128MB at stock speed
    768MB PC2700 DDR Ram
    120MB Seagate 7200RPM 8MB UATA
    Liteon LTN526D CD-ROM
    Optorite CW4801 CD-RW
    Optorite DD0201 DVD±RW

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    Originally posted by ssego

    768MB ultra-generic PC2700 DDR Ram
    time to upgrade for me-
    only 256 meg's of saddo ram
    (worse than ultra-generic? )


    ...maybe one day Kingston HyperX ram...
    but $$$


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    Originally posted by ssego
    Nice setup, but Im curious about the cpu oc though. I have a 2100+ TBred B running at 2171MHz (166FSB 13x). I would think that you should be able to run that thing a little higher, but I could be wrong.
    It'll do 2.4GHz with 1.85V, but I'm limited slightly by my low RPM CPU fan - temps becomes a bit of an issue. I'll take relative quiet over another 100MHz

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