Parhelia owners with ~ 2.9 gig cpus, what are your 3DMark2001 scores with . . .

[leech]

Originally posted by Kruzin
Something is configured wrong with your friend's system.
I was scoring near that with my old P3-700.

Same here on my p3-850. So I'm guessing perhaps his memory timings is set wrong. Could that be what's causing it?

Leech

[Novdid]

Even if the guy runs his CPU coupled with PC133 RAM, it shouldn't score like that. Maybe some old drivers messing up his config? But I doubt it as he just got a new CPU not a new videocard.

[leech]

new motherboard (P4PE) Pentium 4 2.4ghz, and new Crucial 2700 DDR ram. With the Parhelia's newest drivers, and he has done a fresh install of windows XP. Any ideas?

Leech

[bsdgeek]

Clock throttling? High temps?

[leech]

I know he's not getting high temperatures. What's clock throttling?

Leech

[Marshmallowman]

Clock throttling...the one thing intel has and AMD does need.

when a p4 chip begins to overheat it will do "clock throttling", it will slow down to maintain a safe temperature, it works so well on a p4 that you can take the heatsink off a p4 and it will just slow down to a snails pace but keep working. The only thing that AMD is sorely missing from their chips IMO(that and a heat spreader)

[leech]

Interesting... it's been so long since I bought a new motherboard/CPU (I bought my CUSL2 when it came out) His temp right now is about 110 F. His old AMD got up to around 160 and was locking.

Quick question, anyone here have the P4G8X? It's a pricey motherboard, but I was wondering what kind of performance increase would I get with the dual-channel DDR support on it. It says it only supports the PC-2100 DDR though, I found that odd.

Leech

[bsdgeek]

Did he have a space heater inside his old AMD system or something?

Check WCPUID on his machine and see if it's really running @ 2.4GHz

Edit: Here if you haven't used it before.

[leech]

Found out the problem, it's now scoring 8206 on 3dmark. It was that the Intel chipset drivers were not installed.

no space heater in the old AMD, my brother has the same motherboard/CPU as he did, and didn't get anywhere near as bad. probably because the two 10k rpm SCSI drives he has in his system

Leech