Old PC, weird PCMark05 values

Frank_M

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Hi!

Recently tried benching some oc settings with PCMark05 and got some very weird results.

I have an XP2400+ Thorton (15x133 default) on an Asus A7V8X-X (Via KT-400 chipset). I know the kt400 was a strange animal, but this strange?
Check this out:

133 FSB, 15x (~1990 MHz), 166 RAM - 2331 PCMarks
149 FSB, 13x (~1937 MHz), 149 RAM - 2265 PCMarks
149 FSB, 13x (~1937 MHz), 182 RAM - 2305 PCMarks
166 FSB, 12x (~1980 MHz), 166 RAM - 2314 PCMarks

By increasing the FSB and RAM speed, some system tests got a marginal increase; however, HDD performance got worse. 166 FSB works ok, but feels a bit sketchy.
Also, it runs hot. But that's not new.

Which settings should I keep? I'm leaning towards 149/1937/182.
EDIT: got a fast answer to that: FSB166 crashed after about twenty minutes of Oblivion :lol:
 

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