How do you bench ?

[Aldus]

The title is kinda vauge but Im mostly wondering how you go about installing and tweaking your OS.

After you do a clean install of 2k or XP in what order do you install motherboard drivers, chipset drivers, directx, and video card drivers ?

Do you get the latest windows updates or just leave the system as it is ? Or do you just get specific ones ?

What kind of tweaks to the OS do you do to get the highest scores ? When installing should you just install the bare minimum ?

After I get my new power supply and CPU on Wenesday I am going to try to break 12k with my gf3 ti200. Since I dont have an extra psu (sold mine and is getting shipped tommorow, on parents crapaq now) I thought I should start reading up on windows tweaks and tweaks for my card.

I am planning to make a seperate small ~5GB partition on my hard drive just for benchmarking. Should I make this partition NTFS or FAT32, as Ive read that FAT32 is faster for partitions under 32GB. Ill be using windows 2000 so any tweaks for that are welcome, as are those for XP.

Going to be using my 8rda+ vdd @ 1.9v, 2500+, fortron source 530 watt, 2 256mb xms 3500 bh-5, and my ti200 so I would love some AMD tips and tricks.

Thanks in advance :toast:
chris

[Aldus]

No one wants to help a noob ?

:stick:

[STEvil]

Do the L2 and unload DLL after use registry key changes.. they help. Forget where they are, and i've lost how to do them now, too 8-/

I usually just install however.. haven't had any problems yet.

Win2K is faster on AMD than XP by default, but the L2 and DLL trick pretty well even the playing feild.

Also, bench on fresh boots and only load what you have to. Bench Game 1-4, then select the others (not including game 1-4) so they dont affect your final score.

uh.. thats about all the special stuff I do?

[Stang_Man]

are the l2 and dll tricks for XP only??


aldus, install this way..

OS
latest service pack
motherboard drivers
directx
vc driver (then control panel for ati)
then 3dmark

[TheDogFather]

I guess its ok to ghost the install, to save redoing it every time ?

TDF.

[Aldus]

Yea Ive heard of a lot of people using norton ghost to make images of their drive so they dont have to reinstall windows everytime something goes wrong.

Only problem I have is I dont use a floppy and you need one to run ghost from what Ive read. I believe theres a certian way u can burn a cd to make it be bootable like a floppy with norton and whatever else on it but Im not sure how you would go about doing it.

Thanks for all the tips so far ! :toast:

[SpicyHuevos]

Kill all services, Set overclock sliders to maximum, Strip off your clothes, "Personal preference " But i think it makes me have less wind resistance then the average overclocker who is fully clothed when benching.
Maybe thats why i do better with less i guess;)

P.s Norton ghost is crap use casper xp to make a bootable exact mirror image.
CAsper Pwns u!

[Aldus]

Hrm, interesting idea, no clothes. I guess it wouldnt hurt to try. :D ;)

Found some good articles while looking and thought Id share them for anyone else looking for tips.

Article 1 (http://overclockers.com/tips1100/)

Article 2 (http://www.gruntville.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=257)

[st0nedpenguin]

Originally posted by SpicyHuevos
Kill all services, Set overclock sliders to maximum, Strip off your clothes, "Personal preference " But i think it makes me have less wind resistance then the average overclocker who is fully clothed when benching.
Maybe thats why i do better with less i guess;)

P.s Norton ghost is crap use casper xp to make a bootable exact mirror image.
CAsper Pwns u!

Phew, I thought I was the only one who benches better naked.

:moon:

[SpicyHuevos]

Nope stoned there are a few of us i think.
After extensive windtunnel testing ive got my drag coefficeny down to right in between a Peregrine Falcon in a dive and a Sr-71 Blackhawk. But then again ive been working years on it:)

[st0nedpenguin]

Just you wait, once I get my Brazilian, I'll be like a knife through butter.

Hmmm, butter, now, that's an idea...

*runs to the fridge*

[SpicyHuevos]

Ha @ Butter!:)
I tried that once but then figured out a skin tight seamless suit with the scales of a combination of 3 different exotic snakes gave me the best results:slobber:
A pic i dont often share
http://www.kturby.com/skydive/11-skyventure/images/svkeith1.jpg

[st0nedpenguin]

Here's a shot of me before my last lot of benching.

http://ffmedia.ign.com/scorpionking/image/scorpionking-lk-sm.jpg

The butter wore off before I had a chance to run through 3DMark03 though.

Oooh, gotta go, looks like tonights delivery has arrived.

http://www.bammot.org.uk/vrlw610.jpg

[ALT-F13]

LMAO! DJ, Stoned, u've already killed this thread :)

[st0nedpenguin]

"st0nedpenguin, guaranteed to lower the tone of any thread within five minutes."

I like the sound of ^ that, I think I'll slap it in my sig.

And I still can't stop laughing at that milk float, the name of the dairy is incredible.

:D:rotf: :lol:

[st0nedpenguin]

And on a related note, not long to go now...

http://www.ansc.purdue.edu/dairy/graphics/Truck.jpg

[STEvil]

lol... 8-)

[jmke]

http://hwfaq.madshrimps.be