same vanilla@200mhz

[leporis]

i´m happy to say that i´ve pushed to 210mhz (Gclock), and memclock to about 235mhz

but i´m not sure these are true values as my cpu is stressd from 183mhz up

could you guys give suggestions on what other benchmarks than 3dmark2000 i could use to better test my p2 350@392

thanks in advance, Leporis

[leporis]

And here are my 3dmark 2000 results:
(Give me a break on the 32mb texture rendering test because my rig has only 64mb ram)

Display:
Type: Internal
Width: 1024
Height: 768
Depth: 16-Bit
Buffering: Triple
Z-Buffering: 16-Bit
Refresh Rate: VSync Off
Texture Format: 16-Bit

Options:
Continuous Benchmark: No
Show Title Screens: Yes
Benchmark Run Count: 1
Continuous Demo Mode: No
Sounds Enabled: Yes
CPU Optimization: D3D Software T&L

RESULTS
Platform: Internal
3DMark Result: 1519 3D marks
CPU Speed: 79 CPU 3D marks
Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail: 32,5 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail: 19,9 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail: 7,9 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail: 38,0 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail: 18,2 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail: 10,1 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing): 309,2 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing): 309,2 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light): 1220 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (4 Lights): 771 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights): 534 KTriangles/s
8MB Texture Rendering Speed: 229,7 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed: 157,7 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed: 87,1 FPS
64MB Texture Rendering Speed: Not enough AGP memory FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 3-pass): 108,9 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 2-pass): 137,2 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss, 1-pass): 237,8 FPS
Bump Mapping (Environment): 96,1 FPS

[leporis]

Oh, i forgot to put my g400 settings

gclock 199.8
mclock 222
wclock 199.8

[dneal]

Hi there! My G400 will run way up there too. However, I don't recommend leaving it up there. Your 392Mhz P2 just isn't providing the CPU punch to help you much up there.

You also should try (if you're using MGATweak) turning the dividers down (say instead of 2.5, try 1.5).. this caused some odd effects in my G400. Apparently as the PLL clock goes up, odd things happen. Your G400 may not be running at 200 but still be saying it is.

I've tried TONS and Tons of different speeds, including:

200/200/200
180/200/200
180/210/200
160/200/160
168/214/168

My memory isn't as giving as yours and maxes out around 201. I've found the best spot to be is just 160/200/160. It is the most un-odd-like, doesn't do weird things. It's very fast. The memory makes MUCH more difference than speeding up the core (for me anyways)





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ABIT BH6 rev 1.0, Pentium III SL35D 450MHz -> 558MHz, 192MB SDRAM @ 124MHz CAS2, Toshiba 6X DVD,
Matrox Millenium G400 DH @ 160/200, Creative SBLive Value, 3Com Fast Etherlink XL PCI
Supermicro SC701A ATX 300watt TurboCool PC Power & Cooling PS, Panasonic Panasync S17

[MegaManX4]

Hi leporis´,

In fact, I never saw such a low 3DMark 2000 Result (ok, at that resolution).
Sell your PII 350 and buy a new one (a normal PIII 600 has about 2500 3DMarks).
But it would silly to buy a new CPU only for Benchmarking!
PS: Man! That Fillrate numbers are incredible!

Mega

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K6-3 400Mhz@450Mhz
G400 16MB, 192MB Ram and so on

[Maggi]

Hey Leporis,

increase your graphics aperture size to 128MB even if you only have 64MB installed ...

I think than you're able to run the 64MB rendering test too.

I had my g.a.s. at 256MB despite having only 128MB installed ... didn't cause any probs, but increased my amount of texture memory (AGP wise).

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Cheers,
Maggi
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Working Rig:
Asus P2B-DS @ 100MHz FSB
Double Pentium III-450
4 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead
Eye-Q 777 (22" with 127kHz) on primary VGA
Nokia 445Xi (21") on secondary VGA

Home Rig:
Asus P2B-S Bios 1010 @ 100MHz FSB
Celeron 333A @ 500MHz
2 x 128MB CAS2 SDRAM
Matrox Millennium G400 32MB DualHead @ 150/200MHz
CTX VL710T (17")
and a brand new Pioneer 303S SCSI-DVD

[Wombat]

I've noticed that DXDiag would report my total video memory as my G200's memory + 1/2 aperture. 64MB aperture -> 40MB (8 + 32). 128MB would yield 72MB.

Might be related.

[Maggi]

yup ... you only have to substract the memory amount for the display buffers:

for example 1024x768 in true color is 2.25MB per buffer so that the use of triple buffering would need 6.75MB of local gfx RAM

-> 32MB - 6.75 MB = 25.25MB local texture memory
-> 25.25MB + 64MB = 89.25MB total texture memory

I guess you had to substract the amount of RAM that is used by your system, but it should still be enough to run the 64MB test.

Cheerio,
Maggi

[gbm]

Leporis: did you verify your settings with some other program? It looks strange. If the answer is "yes", what revision of the chip and board do you have (hint: get MXINFO from my website).

Your 3DMark scores are mostly lower than mine (K6-III 400), and my card works at 204/153.

[leporis]

After further testing i concluded my board wasn´t at that speed, but i have some good news.

Fortunately, now it´s running @ 176/220/176 and these new settings squeezed a few extra framerates here and there.

but most importantly. you guys(if you haven´t already) should try to drop the numbers on the following intructions (MGATweak1.2):

[leporis]

After further testing i concluded my board wasn´t at that speed, but i have some good news.

Fortunately, now it´s running @ 176/220/176 and these new settings squeezed a few extra framerates here and there (in 3dmark2000 the fillrate is now about 335MP)

but most importantly. you guys(if you haven´t already) should try to drop the numbers on the following intructions (MGATweak1.2):
the upper 5 options on the sgram optimization tab
my tests on this concluded the theses options at optimum speed gain as much speed as +-20mhz Mclock increase and if you drop the the options said you can increase the Mclock to +10/15mhz

Good luck with your G400