I'd say all your scores are way off the mark. I also have a KT7 and only an overclocked Duron. My old Geforce256 SDR (150/210) scored 5986 in 3DMark2000 and my current Geforce 2 GTS-V (value card) at 200/340 scores 7046. My 3DMark2001 scores are 2825 and 3442.
H*ll yes! Dump Via 3.32. I'm using 4.31v. What BIOS are you using? I found both WZ and 3R to be the most stable but be warned, anything after WW requires a fan with the RPM sender to be plugged into Fan Header #1. I also like modified BIOSes which enable me to disable ACPI which also helps stability. You can get these at <A HREF="
http://www.biosmods.com" target="_new">
http://www.biosmods.com</A>
If you are not comfortable with doing those updates then at least update the AGP driver to 4.05C. (I have not yet tried 4.10). There are big gains with later AGP drivers.
Also sometimes the nVidia drivers are bogged down by remnants of older versions. With Windows 98 they work best if all the old garbage is removed. You can use Detonator destroyer to do this (remember to use Control Panel to uninstall the driver first then run Detonator destroyer). You can get it at <A HREF="
http://www.guru3d.com" target="_new">
http://www.guru3d.com</A>. If Windows wants to reinstall a Geforce driver at boot up just cancel out it and install the driver manually.
Sometimes reinstalling Directx helps after installing an nVidia update but doing a clean install can be difficult. You need DirectX Uninstaller (which is hard to find now) or you need to delete the DirectX files manually. Also, DirectX Uninstaller only works properly if you run it with Windows in Safe Mode. It's an .inf file which which deletes files but cannot delete all the DirectX files in a normal Windows session.
My system
Duron 600@1007mhz, 106mhz FSB
Evercool ND-8 HSF
Abit KT7
OCZ PC133 and PC150 SDRAM both at 141mhz, CAS2, Turbo, 4K page mode, 4-way interleave
Visiontek Xtasy 5632 Geforce2 GTS-V overclocked to 200/340 (175/286 is stock)
Maxtor DiamondMax 40VL, 5400rpm, HD
Misc. ancient hardware
My 3DMark2000 scores
<A HREF="
http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare.shtml?2031472" target="_new">
http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare.shtml?2031472</A>
<A HREF="
http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare.shtml?2097390" target="_new">
http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare.shtml?2097390</A>
My 3DMark2001 scores
<A HREF="
http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare2k1.shtml?2077605" target="_new">
http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare2k1.shtml?2077605&l...;/A>
<A HREF="
http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare2k1.shtml?2077624" target="_new">
http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare2k1.shtml?2077624&l...;/A>
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