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ladies and gents... a prime example of CPU bottlenecking...

locutus12

locutus12

locutus12

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ive just got an X1800XT 512mb for £240 inc delivery! :eek: (Thanks Welshtom :D ) and i had a feeling my cpu may cause some bottlenecking as im only on an A3000+ (clocked to 2.18ghz) so i ran 3dmark and got a score back of 8350 which is far better than my GTO2 buy lousy for an X1800XT 512. sooo of to the bios i go, trying every blooming combination i can think of and the best i can get the CPU up to is 2.2ghz due to a locked multiplier and a gig of lousy crucial value ram. (interestingly the cheapo gig of twinmos i use along side it which i bought from MM loves being overclocked, might have to go find more)

and in order to get the 2.2ghz the rams on a divider... i also pushed the PCIE frq up to 110Mhz (not entirely sure what that will do, but i thought what the hell...) so with my wopping extra 20mhz and an even larger bout of disgruntlement towards my crucial ram, i booted back in and ran 3D05 and got 8550 ...


looks like im going to need a new CPU regardless of the ram though, the problem is ive got no money left, grrrr. going to have to wait now to try for 10K :(


ah well, its still a fantastic card at an even better price and i guess it gives me something to grow into over the next 10 months.
 
A64 3500+ is about what my venice is doing, so seems reasonable that we get similar scores :)


p.s. ACESHIGH, does something interesting happen if i do that??? ;)
 
well, id say ive got definate growing room... :) this should do me for the next ten months shouldnt it??? by the way, what should the clock speeds be on this? they look a little odd...
 
hmmm... i suppose i am going to have to change the ram anyway, will have to look around and see if i can get 2 sticks of twinmos to go with the ones i already have. i mean they are not great clockers but they do 235 at least unlike the corsairs that just dont want to go over 200 regardless :(
 
lol, well sitting her now i have a GTO2, a 7800GT and the lovely X1800XT which booted the crap out of BF2 on 6X AA :D cant wait to try X3: reunion... i cant play it but it looks nice lol
 
oh theres no way im clocking the XT during game play, damn thing gets too hot, im just going to clock it to bench then use at stock :) hopefully now i can clock my cpu i can get a better score...
 
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