Sharkyextreme.com 3DMark Team

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Originally posted by Ryder
No i hav'nt tried overclocking my AGP bus, what is a good starting recomendation?

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On my card I run pretty 72 MHz pretty much 24/7. I might push for more if I ever need just a few points, but ATI is said to not handle high AGP as well as nVidia. I'd just increment it until you see problems. I would bet you can get quite a bit over where I run it.

Just wondering too, are you using Fast Writes? Everybody and their mother says to disable that to improve your o/c stability, so a lot of people do it right off the bat. I have never had it hurt me, but I do get a few points from leaving it enabled. I always try disabling it when I am at the top of my o/c to see if it is the hold-up, it just hasn't affected my overclocks.

i ran 85mhz when i was going for 30k :)

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Originally posted by mikead_99


Just wondering too, are you using Fast Writes?

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Yes i'm using fast writes,i tried disabling it but still could'nt clock higher and it hurt my score a little.I'll try another run
this weekend overclocking the AGP bus.

OK mikey, I promise this will be it for me for a while. :)

I finally got my BH5 going on one of these Neo2's. Still kinda sucks...I can run 270x10 2-2-2-5 all day long, 270x12 is a whole 'nother story though. Had to do 250x13 instead. Now that I know my cpu's mem controller isn't crapping on my BH5, I'm still not too sure this board isn't limiting my o/c, but whatever. Here's '01:

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 FX-55
Stock Speed of CPU: 2.60 GHZ
Overclocked speed of CPU: 3.25 GHz
MotherBoard: MSI K8N Neo2
Ram: Mushkin PC3500 Level2, 2x256 mb
Video Card:ATI X800XT-PE
Stock Core of Video: 520
Actual Core of Video: 655
Stock Mem of Video: 560
Actual Mem of Video: 648
Cooling Used: CPU: Prometia Mach 1 GPU: Swifty MCW50T w/172W Pelt
Your score with link: 3dm01se: 39,124

And I had to rerun '05 too. Not to get the 2 extra points, :p but even though the Cat 4.11 betas are version 6490, just like 4.11 release, FM doesn't consider them FM Approved and I wanted to make front page for all 3 FM 3d benches. Here you go, with 4.11 release:

CPU: AMD Athlon 64 FX-55
Stock Speed of CPU: 2.60 GHZ
Overclocked speed of CPU: 3.25 GHz
MotherBoard: MSI K8N Neo2
Ram: Mushkin PC3500 Level2, 2x256 mb
Video Card:ATI X800XT-PE
Stock Core of Video: 520
Actual Core of Video: 655
Stock Mem of Video: 560
Actual Mem of Video: 641
Cooling Used: CPU: Prometia Mach 1 GPU: Swifty MCW50T w/172W Pelt
Your score with link: 3dm05: 7,364

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39k down... i feel like we were just racing around at 30k... looks like you're in line to be the first shark to 40k.

congrats, you're not making it easy for me bud :)

mikead_99 if you had a cascade you'd be at 40K by now ;)

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Originally posted by eshbach
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39k down... i feel like we were just racing around at 30k... looks like you're in line to be the first shark to 40k.

congrats, you're not making it easy for me bud :)

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Thanks eshbach, you know I don't want to make it easy, but I might be standing still a while now. This board and/or cooling are making 40k a tall order. My gpu clocks too low and I am at a hard limit with 3.25GHz. Who knows? I might get tempted to sell my AGP XT-PE and VIVO board, along with my MSI's if anything NF4 looks (a lot) better then the NF3 s939 crop. More then likely I'll be sitting right here though.

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Originally posted by JetForce Gemini X
mikead_99 if you had a cascade you'd be at 40K by now ;)

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lol, maybe even with just an LS....don't get me thinking, Christmas is coming dammit! I'm getting in Santa mode now. :)

gah, mike, if you go nf4 i just know i'm going to kill my fx57/r520 budget trying to catch you... maybe i should just sit quietly in second place and not buy anything for a few months?......

nah ;)

mikead_99 do you think you can tweak that windows 2000 any more??

There must be a limiting factor besides the video card.

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Originally posted by Kappa2001
mikead_99 do you think you can tweak that windows 2000 any more??

There must be a limiting factor besides the video card.

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I don't know any more tweaks. Virtually no services running, multi-proc, mem tweaked. Pretty much everything I know.

....Nope, for my processor speed I'm doing pretty good. There is only 1 guy over 40k with less then 3.3GHz+ on the cpu, but he's got my gpu by 125 MHz and more V-mem too...and a little more cpu/mem speed. I'm pretty much giving it up for now, unless I find a way to get more clcoks out of anything. But trust me, my stuff's screaming at me from what I've put it through to get where I am.

Didn't I just updated your score mike? You're making me work too hard, all this typing's left me all tuckered out....gonna have to play HL2 to recover from this.:p :D You're updated.....again! Hella score dude!:D Like eshbach said, looks like you're gonna be the first Shark to give 40k the smackdown.:cool:

Congratz on breaking 39k Mikead_99! :)

Thanks Ryder, and mikeysg. :)

And yeah mikey, you did just do this for me. I'll try to give you a break now...I think I earned myself some gaming time now too. :D Maybe in a couple weeks another go at it? ;)

damn I have been away so long, people break 39k :eek: Nice job man, well my systems been updated a lil since I been away and here is my new score:
2500+ mobile at 2.4Ghz 12x200 (1.8Ghz stock)1.719v cooled by zalman flower ripoff
512MB bh5 2-2-2-11 at 3v
ABIT an7 bios 17 cooled by home made southbridge sink and NB1
BBA radeon 9800np (idk why futuremark says pro, mine is clocked at 325/290 stock) cooled by vga silencer rev. and copper ram sinks, 420 core/320mem omega drivers
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8277793

I cant break 20k :mad: I can bump proccesor up to 2.5 but that only nets me like 250 more points. Will different drivers get me more points?