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1:02 PM - October 19, 1999 by
Silvino Orozco
Source: Tom's Hardware US –
Topics: Overclocking
Syndication:
Source: Tom's Hardware US –
Topics: Overclocking
Syndication:
Table of Contents:
The Benchmark Setup
Before looking at the benchmark scores, we expect certain performance gains from our various test settings. In particular, we anticipate the SDR GeForce to be starved for memory bandwidth at mid to high resolutions. We plan to see performance gains mainly from over-clocking the memory. As for the DDR board, we figure the memory performance should be more than enough and only core settings would alter its overall performance.
| Hardware Information | |
|---|---|
| CPU | PIII 550 |
| Motherboard (BIOS rev.) | ABIT BX6 2.0 (BIOS date 7/13/99) |
| Memory | 128 MB Viking PC100 CAS2 |
| Network | Netgear FA310TX |
| Driver Information | |
| NVIDIA GeForce 256 | 4.12.01.0347 |
| ATI Rage Fury Pro | 4.11.6713 |
| NVIDIA TNT2 Series | 4.11.01.0208 |
| Voodoo3 Series | 4.11.01.2103.03.0204 |
| Matrox G400 Series | 4.11.01.1300 (5.30.007) |
| Environment Settings | |
| OS Version | Windows 98 SE 4.10.2222 A |
| DirectX Version | 7.0 |
| Quake 3 Arena | v1.08
command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0 |
| Shogo | v2.14
Advanced Settings = disable sound, disable music, disable movies, disable joysticks, enable optimized surfaces, enable triple buffering, enable single-pass multi-texturing High Detail Settings = enabled Fortress Demo |
| Descent III | Retail version
Settings = -nosound -nomusic -nonetwork -timetest |
| DMZG | Demo Version
Command line = -bench -tl on |
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