What am I doing wrong?

kmccullough

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Nov 15, 2003
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Hey all,
Havin kind of a problem (or maybe not) with my system...
I'm running a P4 2.4 on an MSI 865PE Neo 2 board with a Radeon 9800 SE and 2 sticks of Corsair 512XMSPC-3200. My problem is that I cant get the Quake 3 timedemo to run faster than 7 seconds, and when I run Aquamark 3 I only score around 23,000.
That's at the factory clock settings...I've tried to oc with powerstrip, radeonator, and radclock but when I do there is literally NO change. My friend has almost the exact same system but he has a couple sticks of xmspc-4000 and a 9800 pro and he runs the demo in 4 sec and scores about a 45,000 on aquamark. Is this normal? Or am I overlooking something? Any help would be appreciated.....
 

Crashman

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This is normal. The 9800SE has half the rendering piplelines and less than half the memory bandwidth of the 9800 Pro. In fact, it's slower than the 9600 Pro. Heck, it's basically a 9500 non-pro.

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