Orenda635, $38.oo US, you can improve that significantly.. http://3btech.net/msik7atxp40n.html This will give you nForce2 and 8X agp.
That is one of the most intelegent suggestion I have heard on this thread. Thank you, I will give it a read.
I am not buying that board. I don't trust, through experiance, any no named piece of hardware for my computer. If I do get another board it will be a SoYo, maybe a SoYo Dragon.
Nah, I can't be bothered having to reinstall Windows. I'll probably be upgrading to an Athlon64 system in 2006 anyway.
I didn't have to reinstall when I changed Board and Proc...Also, the MoBo I use is lessthan 50 bucks and been using it for over a year with n/p..its also dual channel/nForce2
I am glad your MB is working out for you. As a general rule of practice for any major hardware change it is a good idea to format and do a fresh install of Windows. As for my problems, I am going to wait for my bios to get back and put my A7V MB back together before going any further. This MSI board I am using is very unstable. I really don't care for MSI MB's.
Hey, dont be angry!! jeje Excuse me if the words i used were a little sarcastic. But read it again, it was not sarcastic at all. Just trying to help. Hear all the opinions you have and take the ones which you think are correct, its not neccesary to get angry. OK? Good luck.
sorry to double post....but .. I have Athlon XP2600+(1917@333) and Aquamark CPU was 6596 w/o overclocking....theres your bottleneck, Imhotep. (my GPU was 5394)
Hey imhotep, check this scores from a pixelview 6600 non GT. Theyre from a member guru named Jimmyfox. http://arc.aquamark3.com/arc/arc_view.php?run=1429465542 And when he was using it without overclocking he reached 48,000.
LOL and it lists the CPU as AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+. Big difference between that and my little Athlon XP 2700. I've gotten from 4200 to 5300 on the GFX but my CPU score has been from 4900 to 6200. I also wanted to mention this. I ran the MSI updater for the latest drivers for the board but I clicked Live VGA driver instead of Live driver by accedent. It first displayed "It is NVIDIA Graphics Card Driver download Web!" and when I clicked the green arrow to check it found my video card as ether "NX6800Ultra-T2D256" or "NX6800Ultra-T2D256E". LMAO I wonder how it came up with that?
Kain, thanks. But I scored 38,000 when not overclocked. Not 48,000. My Pixelview runs perfectly at 520/675 using a Thermaltake GeForce4 Cooler. Ram chips are not cooled. 3dmark03 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=4017455 Aquamark3 http://arc.aquamark3.com/arc/arc_vi...?run=1429465542 Also, all you Pixelview/Prolink 6600 owners, check this out http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=139712
Right. You have to reinstall Windows when changing a mobo. Windows configers itself for the old one so it will get confused and start freezing when you install a new one.
.....Correction from my previous post..... I installed my new motherboard and shortly after, Windows ask for re-registation because my hardware profile had changed so much. ...however, I've never reinstalled windows. I've repaired windows installation, i've done 'fixmbr' , reloaded games, installed new drivers...but no..never had to reinstall windows...even when I went from 450Mhz PIII to AMD XP2600.....I'd venture it to be a good Idea to reinstall, but I wouldn't say it was neccessary.
Well, I figure my scores are low because of a bottleneck in my CPU. It is only an: Code name- Thoroughbred Specification- AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2700+ Family/Model/Stepping- 681 Extended Family/Model- 7/8 Package- Socket A Core Stepping- B0 Technology- 0.13µ Instructions Sets- MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE Clock Speed- 2166.4 MHz Clock multiplier- x13.0 Front Side Bus Frequency- 166.6 MHz Bus Speed- 333.3 MHz Stock frequency- 2166 MHz P-Rating- 2700+ L1 Data Cache- 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size L1 Instruction Cache- 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size L2 Cache- 256 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size L2 Speed- 2166.4 MHz (Full) L2 Location- On Chip L2 Data Prefetch Logic- yes L2 Bus Width- 64 bits WIth a chipset as follows: Northbridge- VIA KT600 rev. 80 Southbridge- VIA VT8237 rev. 0 Graphic Interface- AGP AGP Revision- 3.5 AGP Transfert Rate- 8x AGP SBA- supported, enabled AGP Aperture- 256 MBytes Memory Type- DDR Memory Size- 1024 MBytes Memory Frequency- 133.3 MHz (FSB - 33 MHz) DRAM Interleave- 4-way CAS#- 2.0 RAS# to CAS#- 3 RAS# Precharge- 3 Cycle Time (tRAS)- 6 so, I guess I got more video then my CPU can handle LOL. Not bad concidering I ordered a 6200.
mmm, but i dont think and Athlon 2700 like yours bottleneck a 6600. I would think that about a 6800 ar maybe a 6600GT. But yes, your CPU is making you to have lower scores than the others. Did you tried to give a full restart to windows?
Your abbout where your going to be with the CPU score. My CPU score is higher because my memory on my cheap MOBO is running Dual Chanel. Your MOBO doesn't support Dual Channel. Theres another thing to consider. If it runs fine...Wait for your next Processor to up grade.
I know I wasn't going to play around anymore, but after running 3Dmark03 I decided to try again. As you can see at right, I took off the overclock of my card. set at what it was 450x600 running 3dmark03 in the second game test, the shadows looked streched and abnormal. I reset the clock speeds and ran it again. The shadow problem was fixed. I scored 4550. To add I have listed some observations that may help diagnose a problem. If it's something I can't fix without having to buy another CPU and/or graphics card, then say so and I'll deal with these results. 1-I noticed on the troll game test the sharp flad edges (ie table, bookcase, etc...) were not smooth. Looked kinda like line over line when diagonal. 2-The CPU test's looked very bright, almost cartoony. The images looked kinda jagged and sharp around the adges. Also had an extreemly lower FPS then the game test. 3-Pixel Shader 2.0 looked good. Here is the text dump of my test's: Primary Device-NVIDIA GeForce 6600 Width-1024 Height-768 Anti Aliasing-None Post Processing-No Texture Filtering-Optimal Max Anisotropy-4 Vertex Shaders-Optimal Force PS 1.1 in GT2 & GT3-No Repeat Tests-Off Fixed Framerate-Off Comment- 3DMark Score-4550 3DMarks GT1 Wings of Fury-117.4 FPS GT2 Battle of Proxycon-34.4 FPS GT3 Troll's Lair-29.4 FPS GT4 Mother Nature-26.8 FPS CPU Score-428 CPUMarks CPU Test 1-44.8 FPS CPU Test 2-8.1 FPS Fill Rate (Single-Texturing)-855.1 MTexels/s Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing)-2310.2 MTexels/s Vertex Shader-12.7 FPS Pixel Shader 2.0-68.8 FPS Ragtroll-18.6 FPS No sounds-26.2 FPS 24 sounds-23.7 FPS 60 sounds-22.1 FPS Family-AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2700+ Internal Clock-2166 MHz External Clock-166 MHz Description-NVIDIA GeForce 6600 Total Local Video Memory-256 MB Driver Version-7.1.8.9 VGA Memory Clock-501 MHz VGA Core Clock-299 MHz Total Physical Memory-1024 MB Operating System-Microsoft Windows XP SP2
