I am currently using 3D Mark 2000 and have managed to get a score of <b>3049</b> using the configuration below. I have seen some scores on the madonion website that are over <b>3700</b> and I have been advised by my friend that I can optimise the RAM in the BIOS settings on my machine.<br> <br> The catch is that I cannot seem to find a website that advices how to change the BIOS settings for my chipset. Can anyone help on a location of this file or on how to get that bit extra from my machine?<br> <br> <b>Processor:</b> PII 350MHz (Running at 392MHz)<br> <b>Graphics Card:</b> nVidia GeForce DDR<br> <b>Memory:</b> 256MB PC100 SDRAM<br> <b>Chipset:</b> Intel440BX<br> <b>BIOS Type:</b> Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG<br> <b>BIOS ID:</b> 08/03/2000-i440BX-W977-2A69KM4AC-00<br> <br> I know my system is dying on it's feet and is way out of date but it will do until I can buy my Athlon <IMG SRC="smileys/biggrin.gif"><br> <br> Cheers for any help
Oh My Word.... <IMG SRC="smileys/eek.gif"> <br> <br> And here is me complaining about 10996 3dMarks<br> <br> Thank you for making me feel so fortunate. <br> <br> Unfortunatly I am not in the position 2 advise, as I also suck at tweaking, however I would suggest u d/l the GTU (GeForce Tweak Utility) and try and learn by experimentation as much as u can from that, it can be a pain staking process, 1 check, then benchmark, uncheck, check another, then benchmark, and this can go on 4 hours, and 2 be honest, I dont think I could be arsed myself 2 go through all that, 2 go from 3050 ish 2 3700 ish, specially as that is going 2 result in a severe loss of image quality, what do u use ur PC 4? gaming? if so what games? u should buy somthing LOL whatever it is buy something lol things r fairly cheap now uno! <IMG SRC="smileys/frown.gif"> u could get a decent mobo and processor 4 about 150 uno? erm dunno what that is in US (I am from UK) 1 of the best mobo's around (the Epox EP-8KHA+) is like about 100 pounds over here (HOW CHEAP?) and u could get a nice athlon XP 4 under 100 as well, I dunno how poor u r, but c'mon man, if u r into gaming and benchmarking u gotta pull somet out of the bag here LOL :/ <br> <br> *Kisses his PC, and says sorry 4 shouting at it's 3dMarks
Mr/Mrs/Miss M.I.K.E.E,<br> With pc100 and no FSB settings on your chipset, i feel it will be futile to even think about configuring your ram.<br> <br> My old p3 500 was run on a 440BX chipset. The thing was very stable, but that is about all it was. There were hardly any optimising settings that could be done on the thing.<br> <br> The most performance gain will be drawn from newer drivers, then optimise them. Pos try 21.xx up to 22.40. The higher ver's are tweaked for gf3.<br> <br> The only way to really get more power is to upgrade. Lets face it, newer games will not run well at all on a 350Mhz based sys.<br> You can get a nice new rig for £300 - £500.
