Benchmark 2001 score

[trelarah]

I was hoping that someone could please tell me if this score is correct for the specs that I have. If not, what score should I be reaching?

(My specs are listed at the bottom of every post I make.)

I have a screen shot of the score I reached.
Thank you.

[trelarah]

Here is a screen shot of the settings I used to reach the score mentioned above.

[Blakhart]

That score is inline with a comparable system, same vid card. You should be able to pop 11000 easy with a little fine tuning.

[trelarah]

What kind of fine tuning do you mean? How can I do this?

[Blakhart]

Grab memtest86 and burn it to a cd or copy it to a floppy so you can boot to it. Then set the mem timings in bios to say 8/3/3/2.5 and then boot into memtest. Memtest has a memory "score" and I bet yours will show something like 800 if single channel, and 1200 or more for dual channel, write this score down. Then take the first number in the mem timings (the 8 in 8/3/3/2.5 and lower it to 6 and see what the score is in memtest. Then try going back up. Depending on the mobo, mem, and fsb, you may get a better memtest score with like 11/2/2/2.5 (this usualy with a 200fsb) than with 6/2/2/2.5 (usualy at 133 or 166fsb), test all the settings from 6 to 13, but sometimes 13 or so will not let you boot so be carefull. See what gives you best score. This setting will be the best for your mem and mobo at that fsb. My nforce2 likes 8/2/2/2.5 and gets like 1329 in memtest. That's at a 166 fsb.
Then you can go into video properties and set the d3d setting to best performance rather than best appearance. This is a major boost in itself. Then make sure anisotropic filter and fsaa (fsaa = full screen anti aliasing, or just plain old anti aliasing) are off. Make sure that vsynch in d3d is set to application preference or default on. This way vsynch won't limit the fps. If you are not up to all this I can understand. Also look at this thread:
http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.p...threadid=85521


PS all the memtests must pass all tests for the settings to be valid. If any errors show you will have to reduce the timings.

[ATW]

My 9800 Pro only scores 1k more than that.