i have just got a 4500 and i benchmark at 2200-2300 on 3d mark 2001.<br> my system is athlon 1.0 gig 200 fsb,asus a7a 266,256 ddr,30 gig ata 100 western digital cpu run at 42-47 c plays quake 3a ok and ut is fine(75 fps) viewed at 1024-768 16 bit.any help on improving my setup would be great thanks andy.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Dave:<br> <b>actually thats a darn good score for that setup.</b><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><br> <br> i got new drivers off the power vr site instead of hercules site<br> overclocked gpu to 185 and overclocked cpu to 1110 and made sure it was stable(although it ran a little hotter cpu 49-52c)benchmarked it again with 3d mark 2001 and got 2527.should i try dx 8.1?
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by GUV:<br> <b>i got new drivers off the power vr site instead of hercules site<br> overclocked gpu to 185 and overclocked cpu to 1110 and made sure it was stable(although it ran a little hotter cpu 49-52c)benchmarked it again with 3d mark 2001 and got 2527.should i try dx 8.1?</b><HR></BLOCKQUOTE><br> <br> Thats pretty damn good I think as when I had my 4500 64mb I got around 2800 ish I think now upto 8000 with Ti500, but to be honest games arn't that much faster!