Over-clocking the GeForce256

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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.

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Hardware Information Header Cell - Column 1
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 Row 4 - Cell 1
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 Row 10 - Cell 1
OS Version Windows 98 SE 4.10.2222 A
DirectX Version 7.0
Quake 3 Arena v1.08command line = +set cd_nocd 1 +set s_initsound 0
Shogo v2.14Advanced Settings = disable sound, disable music, disable movies, disable joysticks,enable optimized surfaces, enable triple buffering, enable single-pass multi-texturingHigh Detail Settings = enabledFortress Demo
Descent III Retail versionSettings = -nosound -nomusic -nonetwork -timetest
DMZG Demo VersionCommand line = -bench -tl on