DyNo
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Drivers drivers drivers... - 2005/03/15 05:30
Hey All ,
Im new here and must say that im glad i found this site , its the best layed out site of this kind ive come across yet good work :o).
I have run some tests , and spent quiet a bit of time doing so , now this post might seem a bit big , but it might be worth a read.
I run what i would consider to be a lower end machine , but it is however fairly intermediate and a system like mine would still be fairly common , although dated.
I have an MSI KT6Delta FIS2R motherboard , with an AMD 2500XP Barton core Processor , Pretty standard cooling in the form of a Tt Volcano 12 , i use a Tt 420w psu , run only 512mb of ddr400 , and for video i use a GF6800 GT (genuine Nvidia).
I have been fairly dissapointed so far with the card , its nice but it didnt blow me away like i thought it would so i have been playing with drivers to try and increase the eye candy to an exiting level.
For the tests i ran the clock speeds back to standard on the processor and set the fan to just under 3k the processor didnt at any stage pass 42 degs C for all the runs.
With the card , i ran one lot of tests at the standard 350m/1.0g frequencies and then the next with a slight oc 390m/1.06g , with only one exeption the card never exeeded 52 degs C in standard form and 64 degs C oc'd
First off i grabed a set of 71.22 str8 from nvidias site set them up and fired up 3DMark 2k5 running in standard trim it didnt seem to impressive but still looked clean , with the small but safe o/c you could barley notice any diff at all ( Score 2933 / oc 3062)
Back to nvidia for a set of 71.84 , these seemed to make a difference frame rates were well up and everything looked quiet nice standard , then with the oc it ran just that minute bit better still ( 3778 / oc 4092)
Now the Forceware 71.90 from here seemed to be a slight backstep from the .84s (3725 / oc 3994)
Then Forceware 75.90 seemed very comparable to nvideas 71.84 netting (3799 / oc 4088 )
Moving on to DNA's 71.80 was like reinstalling forcewares 71.90 as they both looked the same and returned a score very very close to one and other (3729 / oc 4003)
Then i went for DNA's 75.90 , these were without a doubt the sweetest yet , it held a fairly consistant frame rate , ran reasonably smooth and looked nice , ahh and it was the first time i had seen 4fps in the last test :o) (4001 / oc 4374)
I thought i had better try NGO , installed the 06a drivers and for some reason things went pear shaped , gpu core made it to 89 degs C before i ran for the fire extinguisher and the test looked like i was running an intergrated 4mb graphics adapter , as a result i didnt run the higher clock speeds with these for fear of burning the house down (1657 / oc Too Scared)
None of this information will be helpfull to any of you guys here as you all would be way advanced on me , but they are all genuine numbers from a genuine run of the mill system.
By the way , if anyone here can point me in the right direction , i have heard it is possible to near the 5000 mark with hardware simmilar to mine , if anyone has any tricks it would be apreciated.
Thanks , DyNo.
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