AMD so slow?

[xwl2000]

I bought a pc in Oct last year. I heard that athlon xp 1600+ is faster than intel p4 1.7G, but i don't know why amd performs so bad on my system.
my pc configuration
athlon xp 1600+
jetway v333u(kt333)
kingmax ddr266 128M + HY ddr266 256M
maxtor 5400rpm 30G
GF2 MX400 64M SDram
winxp+sp1
ie6+sp1
directx 8.1
NTFS file system

i have tested my system with pcmark2002, but the cpu score was just nearly 3800. is this cpu a fake one? or does any bottleneck exist in my system?

 

[vk2amv]

I would be willing to bet it is the motherboard. I really hate jetway motherboards myself. I have never seen a good one. And what the 1600 athlon is supposed to be equal to is a p4 1.6gig not a 1.7gig. In some applications it will kill the p4 1.7gig performance wise (Hello seti!!) but on avarage they are usualy equal.
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[seancaddell]

I am running a 2000+ with 256mb samsung DDR333 in soltek DRV4 motherboard and my cpu score is 4739, In a decent motherboard I would expect yours to get around 4000 points so it's not really that far off. But your motherboard is of the cheap variety so you can't expect top performance.

Download 3dmark20001 and give that a go. See what you get with it.


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[dhlucke]

What is it doing that is slow? Screw the benchmark, what is it doing slow?

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[xwl2000]

I have also tested with 3dmark2001 se, only1630, I cannot believe my eyes!

 

[MeTaLrOcKeR]

Somethings wrong with ur computer man.......

My Thoroughbred 1800+ @ 1.667Ghz (2000+) does 4879 CPU Mark in PC Mark 2002

My Palomino 1600+ with a GF2 MX 400 64MB like urs pulls a 3100 3D Marks in 3D Mark 2001.......and that system is with a VIA KT133A and 512MB of SDRAM.

R u sure u have VIA 4-in-1 drivers installed ????????

Try the new Hyperion 4.45 4-in-1's off of Via's website......

Make sure u got good video card drivers installed and make sure ur computer is running at 133Mhz FSB.....so it SHOULD read 1400MHz in windows etc.......make sure all ur bios settings and ram timings r optimized........

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[xwl2000]

I adjusted my system to best performance and tested again, 3dmark score only 1664

 

[HolyShiznit]

3dMark is a test mainly of your graphics card. Your graphics card is weak. I have the same one, except it is one of the newer, cheaper ones with 64-bit SDRAM. With my 2000+ it scores only 1222 so don't feel too bad.

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[paulj]

Get a Radeon 9700Pro. I get about 15000 in 3DMark.

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[Crashman]

1630 would be about right for a GeForce2 MX200, not a 400. If you're certain you have a 400, it's possible that your drivers are not installed properly, probably your chipset (AGP) drivers.

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[MeldarthX]

Sad part is that's about right with your video card. Actually you have two bottlenecks in your system right now; your ram which I'm surprised no one caught and your video card.

Your ran is running at 266......asinc.......while your board will take 333ddr ram. Switching out your ram will show about a 5% boost roughly........

Now for your biggest bottleneck is your video card. You can overclock it a little more to get a little more out of it but until you pump it up with a faster card you won't see much more out of your system.......

 

[bhchy168]

take off kingmax ddr266 128M

 

[SabreFan]

I just ran PCMark2002 on my system;
Athlon 1.4 (266MHz FSB)
Asus A7N8X Deluxe (Bios 1001.g)
512MB Crucial PC2100 DDR RAM
40GB IBM Deskstar (7200rpm)
GeForce3 Gainward 64MB
WinXP w/ SP1
NTFS FIle system

I know I can upgrade memory and and cpu, my mobo died so I replaced it with the Asus with plans on getting an XP2600+ with 333MHz fsb (as soon as President Dubyas Economic Stimulus package goes through) and new memory (as soon as someone figures out which memory works best with this mobo!)

PCMark 2002 scores:
<b>CPU score 3946
Memory score 3950
HDD score 664</b>
Is this score where it should be? If not, is there anything I can do to bump performance up?

Also, after I upgrade, will my system be faster if I run CPU and Memory both at 333MHz or could I run CPU at 333MHz and memory at 400MHz?

Thanks

 

[Lamoni]

Also, after I upgrade, will my system be faster if I run CPU and Memory both at 333MHz or could I run CPU at 333MHz and memory at 400MHz?

Benchmarks show that running the memory at 400 is still generally faster, but by a very small margin. The reason the margin is so small is because it puts it out of sync with the CPU. I would still get the faster RAM if it isn't too much more money. If you overclock your system to 400MHz FSB or upgrade later to a 400MHz FSB Barton, the memory should show more of an improvement than it now does.