~7600 with Radeon 8500 on 3Dmark 2001

[Guest]

Well, guys. I am getting around 7600 with my radeon 8500 clocked to around 294 in 3Dmark 2001. I was happy till I did a comparison of a similar system on madonion and saw that people are getting upto 8900 with same stuff as me. What am I doing wrong? My setup:
Shuttle AK31 rev 3.1 , PC2400 2.5CL micron ram (2X256 MB) , radeon 8500 lele flashed with retail bios and clocked to 294mhz, XP1800+.

Any help in getting the performance of 3Dmark 2001 up will be apriciated.

Thanks and Regards

 

[juin]

1 overclocking your CPU/GPU
2 open your case get your room tempurature also low as you can .I live in Québec that was easy, can be hard in florida.
3 update all driver, for leak driver for your 8500 rage3D.com.There some for the AGP/and chipset and maybe a bios update will help
4 Win 98Se improve score
5 At rage3D.com there is a 8500 tweaker with you can overclock and tweak the driver and stting
6 Extreme tweaking disable every thing you dont use.
7 Personally i do custom benchmark EX: i run car chase at 310/290 after my systeme turn to idle so my systeme have the time to cool bettween each benchmark , after 5 minute (around 5 minute) i benchmark lobby.......
8 Also forcing 16 bit buffer on the driver setting improve score and 3dmark still think you are at 24 bit buffer.That a legal cheat.
9 Run cacheman and others tweaker are best result also go change your Bios setting there allwayse some thing to tweak on any mobo.

There some others way that i have done but i have forget some part.

http://service.madonion.com/servlet/Index?pageid=/orb/projectcompare&projectType=6&projectId=2310900

 

[AMD_Man]

That number is way too low for your system. You need to set the AGP aperture to 128MB, that will probably fix your score.

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

 

[Guest]

If I set the AGP aperture to 128, As soon as I press the benchmark button in 3D mark, the monitor turns off. The machine does not reboot. Just that there is no signal to the monitor. Wonder why that is happening?

 

[Guest]

Well, I figured out why the score was low. My board has 4 DDR slots. I thought I had stuck my two ram dimms in the slot1,2 but I guess they were in number 3,4. I shifted them to slots 1,2 and up goes my performance to 8500. Does shifting ram dimms make so much of a difference?

I had initially set RAM setting from SPD to manual. With it being manual, the system becomes slightly unstable now. I guess I will have to play with my RAM to figure exact values.

Regards
Anuj