My 'new' cheap second hand upgrades PCAMD Athlon XP 2500+ (1.83GHz, 166x11)
Abit NF7-S 2.0 (nForce2 Ultra400)
2x256MB + 512MB DDR400 (Dual Channel)
Powercolor X1650XT 256MB
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 120GB
Windows XP SP3
Catalyst 8.9
An overclocker n00b's adventureGot the GPU yesterday afternoon. Brought it home happily only to find it crashing in 3DMark. Tried to fix it the whole night. Disassembled the card, tried to replace the cooler (failed!), BIOS settings... Until the last resort: Reinstalling XP. Still crashing. Retreat for the night with defeat... Next morning (today!) tried again. Still crashing, was at the verge of returning this otherwise good card until I reset my OC'ed CPU to stock (which I never changed since the Radeon 9250). Voila! Rock stable, although have to run stock speed. Now to find the highest CPU clock for the GPU... [Was rock solid at 2.2GHz using Radeon 9250]
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3DMark03=======================
Score: 10082
CPU: 554
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GT1 - Wings of Fury: 169.1 fps
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon: 80.1 fps
GT3 - Troll's Lair: 64.6 fps
GT4 - Mother Nature: 72.6 fps
CPU Test 1: 62.6 fps
CPU Test 2: 9.7 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing): 1935.3 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing): 4404.6 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader: 48.4 fps
Pixel Shader 2.0: 77.3 fps
Ragtroll: 54.2 fps
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3DMark05=======================
Score: 5826
CPU: 2611
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GT1 - Return To Proxycon: 22.5 fps
GT2 - Firefly Forest: 17.3 fps
GT3 - Canyon Flight: 32.5 fps
CPU Test 1: 1.2 fps
CPU Test 2: 2.5 fps
Fill Rate - Single-Texturing: 2179.4 MTexels/s
Fill Rate - Multi-Texturing: 4553.7 MTexels/s
Pixel Shader: 202.5 fps
Vertex Shader - Simple: 76.6 MVertices/s
Vertex Shader - Complex: 54.4 MVertices/s
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3DMark06=======================
Score: 2687
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SM2.0: 1186GT1 - Return To Proxycon: 8.538 fps
GT2 - Firefly Forest: 11.236 fps
SM3.0: 1232HDR1 - Canyon Flight: 11.575 fps
HDR2 - Deep Freeze: 13.069 fps
CPU: 659CPU1 - Red Valley: 0.208 fps
CPU2 - Red Valley: 13.069 fps
Fill Rate - Single-Texturing: 2178.914 MTexels/s
Fill Rate - Multi-Texturing: 4567.680 MTexels/s
Pixel Shader: 120.104 fps
Vertex Shader - Simple: 86.560 MVertices/s
Vertex Shader - Complex: 53.841 MVertices/s
Shader Particles (SM3.0): N/A
Perlin Noise (SM3.0): 42.026 fps
CPU is the bottleneck here. X1650XT can reach 3000+ on multicore CPUs.
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