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Remman
10-16-2002, 11:52 PM
straight to the point here. i was goin pretty good increasing myt 3dmark score. i have a 10562. then i decided to reformat thinking a fresh hdd would get me a little extra. well i was wrong. i reformatted and installed all the necessary drivers and 3dmark. well...now i cant break 10k at all. i am using same settings in riva tuner and actually higher core and memory clocks on my videocard than before and am barely breaking 9k. i dont understand what changed with the reformat.
N8
10-17-2002, 04:59 AM
Remman,

Are you sure you're using the same 4in1 drivers? In my experience the 4.37's have been the fastest for 3DMark.

Also, Win2k should give you quite a few more points over WinXP :)
reupbert
10-17-2002, 09:35 AM
What nate (N8?) said, and did you have any tweaks you forgot to do? Like enabling UDMA/66 etc? I always forget to go through and thoroughly leanify w2k whenever I do a fresh install... that is, untill I notice things like filesharing is still on (eek!)
N8
10-17-2002, 10:15 AM
reupbert,

Yep, Nate :)

Yea, I've done that before as well....realized I had not applied certain tweaks/etc.
Remman
10-17-2002, 06:43 PM
i hadnt done any windows tweaks before and didnt this time. i used 4.43 via drivers before and am again. i wrote down all of my riva tuner settings also and they are the same. UDMA / 66? never knew anything about that...what is it?
Colin
10-17-2002, 06:46 PM
Can you post a full compare link with your new score? That may help in determining what's wrong.
Remman
10-17-2002, 09:41 PM
well i dont have a recent one. one thing i am finding is that my system is very unstable after the format. im lucky to complete the games tests now at 185 fsb. before i could do it easy all day long. could it be my power supply is failing? like i said i cant get anywhere above 9500. yesterday i benched at 175 fsb aggressive timings and got a 9500. i rebooted and upped the fsb to 185 with same timings. second 3dmark try i got a 9100. why is it that the more i overclock the lower my score gets? i have a generic 375w power supply. aroia y 0213 xp 1600+, abit kx7-333, 2x256 samsung pc2700, VT geforce3 ti500...
Colin
10-18-2002, 08:34 AM
It's possible that your PSU is failing at high speeds. What do the voltage lines look like?

Can you finish a complete 3DMark with the same settings when you hit 10.5k? If you can publsih the link so we can check it out, it may tell us what's wrong.