Advice from the all knowledgeable MURC members...

[Electric Amish]

I got my Athlon system running:

Abit KA7 RK bios (128mb AGP aperture)
256mb Mushkin PC133 Infineon running at 133MHz
700MHz Athlon .18 @ 805MHz Alpha HS
G400 SH vanilla
Aureal SQ2500 sound card
AOpen 52x CD-ROM
Ovislink NIC 10/100
WD 10gb 5400rpm Caviar (7200 on order)
win 98SE

Best I can get out of 3dMark 2000 is about 2600 on the default bench. If I clock my G400 to 300mhz with MGATweak I get about 3200.

Does this sound right??

Please give me some advice on optimum setup of this system...

thanks.

amish

[Greebe]

eYup!

Now just where has Electric been hiding?

[Electric Amish]

I've been hiding at Anand's..

I'm sorry, folks.

It's just that my G400 works so well that it never causes me any problems.... heheh.

Oh, also, I've been putting together this system...and going through finals... and changing jobs... etc...



amish

[anid]

You talking registry tweaks or chipset tweaks? The registers for all the Via chipsets are practically identical and they can be modified with some of H. Oda's wonderful software (wpcredit, wpcrset). Granted, it doesn't work as well for graphics, but you can get some decent system boost out of it. How much of a boost depends on the default BIOS settings - if they're already pretty aggresive, you won't get as much. But it's a wonderful way to change those conservative timings you can't access in BIOS.

edit: Oh, yeah, how'd you manage 805MHz with the mem running at 133? Are you using a GFD at 8x multiplier with the 5MHz "free"? Cuz if you bumped the FSB to 115, that mem is running at 148 (using host + pci setting).

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[This message has been edited by anid (edited 02 May 2000).]