It's still not YOUR machine, it's so obvious that you weren't able to achieve 7500 so you won't post your score. If you could, you would be posting the link 20 times a day wouldn't ya?
I am glad you finally admitted a machine can't achieve 7500 without o/c both the processor and the video card, if you did this earlier the tread would end in no time. And that's the argument has been since day one. By the way, if you want a pointer on how to achieve high score, here is the tweaking guide for all of you. I find it pointless, since it's only a number that really means jackshit, to me, the 3DMarks2k1 score is just a number to make sure you configured your system right, anyway, here is the guide by Gibbo:
System Installation Guide
1. Start of by doing a fresh/clean install of your operating system.
2. When your O.S. has been loaded, install the VIA 4in1 Drivers, and any other AGP drivers you require. Run Defrag.
3. Install DirectX 8.0a or 8.1 BETA. Run Defrag.
4. Install your VGA Drivers. Run Defrag.
5. Install any SCSI Adapters (Highpoint controller etc.) Run Defrag.
6. Install your Soundcard, and any other devices. Run Defrag.
7. Check the system is fully working, now start to tweak your BIOS and try overclocking your processor.
BIOS Tuning Guide
1. Disable any video/system bios cache options.
2. Configure your RAM timings for best performance. (Trial & error is required here).
3. Enable AGP 4x & Fast writes, but beaware that these can casue instability.
4. To improve stability of AGP 4x, find the signalling strength in the BIOS and set it to either DA, EA, FF or 00.
5. Enable all other performance options one by one, and run some tests.
Tuning your O.S.
1. Onced you've installed all of your drivers you can start tweaking the O.S. itself.
2. Do one final check by running scandisk & defrag on the HDD.
3. Now optimise your swap file, first of all disable the swap file completely, and restart windows. Now run Defrag.
4. Now create a swap file, roughly double the size of your physically installed amount of RAM. So for instance if you have 256Mb installed, then set the minimum to 480Mb and the maximum to 480Mb, click apply and restart.
5. Run Defrag again.
6. Now to further assist your RAM and swap file, open up your system.ini file in notepad and add the following line under the [386EnH] section, ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1, this tells windows to use all of your RAM, and access the swap file only when needed.
7. Now set your read ahead optimisation, by right clicking my computer, select performance tab, pull down the file system arrow and set the typical role of your system to network server, this increases the cache, and should give a small boost.
8. Now using notepad again, edit your config.sys file, and enter REM in front of all lines/entries. Now enter [ b]Stacks=0,0 on a new line, this can speed up the Windows kernal considerably. Also open up your Autoexec.bat file and add REM in front of every line.
9. Now press start, select run and type msconfig, now click on the starup tab, and untick all of the boxes.
10. Right click my computer, select trouble shooting, and disable system restore.
11. Try to have very few icons on your desktop, don't have a background, on display properties, disable any features to improve display quality, like show icons using all possible colours etc.
12. Delete any files in your c:\windows\temp\ directory.
13. Make sure you completely disable power saving in Windows.
14. Also check that you are not loading any unecessary network drivers, and that system scheduler is disabled.
Improving your 3D Mark 2000/2001 scores
1. Defrag your hard before and after installation.
2. For 3D Mark 2000 I recommend the 7.xx and 8.xx series drivers, 7.68 and 8.03 worked best for me.
3. For 3D Mark 2001 the 12.90 drivers appear to be the most stable quickest.
4. Once installed set your desktop resolution and colour depth to the same as what the test runs at, which is 1024x768 in 16 bit colour for 2000 and 32 bit colour for 2001.
5. Set your refresh rate to 60Hz.
6. Now download the NVtweak 3.5 file which I have attached at the bottom of the thread, as this enabled the overclocking panel and applies some tweaks.
7. Next go to display properties, click on the settings tab, click advanced, click Geforce ????, click additional properties, make sure Antialiasing is disabled, under Direct3D set mipmap detail level to best performance, also make sure that only fig table emulation and adjust z-buffer are ticked, all the other should be unticked. Set the PCI texture memory size to minimum as AGP cards do not require this.
8. Now click on More Direct3D button, set texel alignment to 7, set vertical sync mode to always off and set render no more than 3 frames ahead.
9. Now select clock setting, and enable the overclocking feature, restart the machine.
10. Clock your card to it's highest known speed, bare in mind that core speed tends to give the biggest boost in 3D Mark 2001.
11. Also try downloading programmes like NVMAX, Getune and Rivatuner, as these can also offer some more tweaks for a boost.
12. Using one of the above apps or another similar utility, make sure you enable Side Band addressing as this can give around 250 more points in 3D Mark 2000, and a slight increase in 3D Mark 2001, I used Creatives AGP wizard, as I have a Creative VGA card.
13. I have also heard that if you load NVMAX, and set the LOD to 2, it can give a considerable boost, however I have not tried this tweak yet, but others have reported considerable gains. (It is my last trick left up my sleave for when some one betters my scores).
14. Also for 3D Mark 2000, if you go to testing options, click on change, tick the disable title screens, and set to run twice, this can also give a small boost in scores. For 3D Mark 2001, just run the test twice.
Expert Tweaks & what worked for me
1. Try to get your system running at the highest possible FSB, with your RAM timings on the best performance settings, by doing this your pushing your AGP slot faster (out of spec), but this offers great improvement in 3D Mark scores, be warned however that Nvidia cards struggle past 90Mhz AGP speed with AGP 4x, fast writes and Side Band Addressing all enabled.
2. Also try some extreme cooling on your graphics cards, as the cooler you get it, the further it will overclock.
3. When I was at 12950ish I had done all of the above tweaks nearly, the final tweak was side band adressing which jumped my score up to 13200 straight away. To get a further boost, I stuck a larger heatsink onto my GPU, which allowed me to clock the core to a whopping 312Mhz, which gives me the Worlds No.1 score of 13269.
I must note that I did not require to use NVMAX, Getune or Rivatuner, I did all of the listed tweaks above, and just enabled Side Band addressing to get my scores. Obviously I know my BIOS settings inside out. At 182Mhz FSB I used the following memory timings 16-8-7-2-2-2.5-2, this gives a score of 800 /1100 in Sisoft Sandra 2001 RAM bench.
I would like to thank Anti_Ps2, Marshy, Apocalypse, CryingFreeman and other users/websites for informing me of other tweaks that I have added to this guide.
By Gibbo
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Have fun, by the way, the 20.80 will give you a much better boost than 3%, do your homework.
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