Well ed and me got the comp runnin right now but thanks for the info

me and ed got the comp runnin right but thanks for the info

yea, still got a bottleneck with the damned harddrive, got 2819 3DMarks on 3dmark 2000 with standard tests, gonna try tweaking it later.

yea alittle windows tweakin and sime other stuff

Also, look for a little program called RegCompact, I think I got it off of PCWorld's download center... anyway, it compacts the registry and that does a lot for you in speed. Also, get the Disk Keeper 6.0, or the trial and get a for it, as that is the best defragger out there.
 
Side note: I can get it to run at 950MHz, but I have to set my cas timings to 3 instead of 2, and the performance is slightly less than when Im OC by the FSB and setting my cas to 2. No matter what, I cant get it to boot up properly half the time and if I do, it usually knocks out on me--voltage change or no, still nada.
I still may go to 950 just for the hell of it and then play with the cas settings to see if I can get one of the three settings to 2 instead of 3 and have a stable system.
It'll be interesting...

Oh, yeah!1Gigahertz, baby!!!
 
Actually 998~999MHz...CLOSE ENOUGH!!!
 
Unless...does anyone know the 112FSB setting for the 4 dip switches on the Asus A7V (KT133 chipset)?

well i can't help you there but the beast is runnin like a champ it runs qIII like nothin and it is stable but when i first got it runnin it had little problem recanizing the cd rom but it is fine now

Just checkin', cuz the mobo manuals dont always show all the dip switch settings.
Im trying to see how far up I can go before things lock up. I have the ram set to 133MHz so any FSB over 100MHz will raise the ram above 133MHz. Right now Im at a 107MHz FSB and a 9.5 multiplier. This seems to be running okay right now and has the best chance for increasing the bandwith over 1GHz.
No matter how hard I try the limit seems to be 1050MHz, but I'll have to see how close I can get to that w/o crashing.
 
Bandwith plays a MUCH bigger role than the clock multiplier. Ive run some Sandra memory and cpu benchmarks and it just uses half the available ram and Im on par with the 1GHz T-Bird and P!!! 1GHz.
 
Bandwith is life!!

well i wish i had a asus so i wish i could help but i am sorry

Well, we cant all have the same mobo. Oh well, I got it to 1016MHz with just a little voltage bump, any way I try to go past that is just not stable enough and will eventually crash. Mmmmmm...gigahertz!
 
Im trying to get my pc to stay above 5500 in 3dmark 2000...almost there.

Hey one ,ore post to my number

Yea 228 baby lets talk about 228 228 yea 228

Now its finished with a high score in 3dmark 2000 of 5611
 
 
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Whaazzzupppppppppp!
Asus A7V
Duron 800@1016MHz
384MB PC 133
Samsung 48x CD-ROM
Toshiba 12x DVD-ROM
Zip CD650 USB 4/4/6
Zip 100 USB
Maxtor 20.4 GB ATA100 5400RPM
Hercules Prophet II MX (core:220MHz ram:210MHz)
Guillemot Maxi Sound Fortissimo
SIIG 3 port 1394 PCI Adapter
D-Link DFE-530 10/100 NIC
Creative Cambridge Soundworks FPS1000
MS Intellimouse Optical
Kleer 17-inch @ 85Hz 1152x864x32 desktop
Global WIN FOP 38
Win2k Pro
 
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How do you get the 3dmarks up there like that

Just to clarify what Im benchmarking with: 3dMark 2000 NOT 2001.
 
And the answer--overclocking and some tweaks.
There's some good ones in X-teq X-Setup.
A lot of it has to do with things being cached. And that helps big time, some more than others. Also, there's probably a ton of crap that goes on startup, and X-Setup can clear those buggers away. I might be able to get higher, but I refuse to disable my firewall and completely shutdown my antivirus, though I do disable that for the time being.
I benchmark right after a restart when resources havent been used hardly.
 
There a little registry tweak with Max Cached Icons.
 
In the registry go to HKey_Local_Machine--Software--Microsoft--Windows--Current Version--Explorer. Only in the Explorer folder, though, not one below it. And add the registry string Max Cached Icons just like I put it with the spaces. Then modify it by right clicking and hit Modify, and set the value to 8000. I, in my quest for more power have 95000, but Im not sure how much thats really doing stuff for me.
 
I dont really know the reason having stuff cached speeds things up, but I just know regardless the reason, it works very well.
 
Also, memory bandwith plays a BIG part in the grand scheme of things. With my ram at 100MHz in bios I could overclock the FSB up to 113MHz, only limited by the KT133 chipset, and have no stability issues. I have my ram now running at the 133MHz and my FSB at 107MHz. When I had my ram at 100MHz, no problems going to 113MHz FSB, but when I went to 133MHz ram, the ram wouldnt overclock too much so I guess its running at 140MHz, and 256MBs of it are some generic ram too. Anyway, my 3dmark scores jumped considerably due to bandwith. Thats why the 1.2GHz T-birds with the 12x100 mulitplier are beaten out by the 1.2 GHz T-Birds at the 9x133 multiplier. Its all because of bandwith. And that is the best thing Ive found to work.

I don't have it yet...but...here's my new stuff:
 
Adaptec 29160 SCSI 3 adapter
2(+?) Ultra 160 SCSI Drives...18 GB, 10k or 15k RPM...
 
? Ultra 2 scsi drives ?????rpm gb
 
Plextor 12x10x32s SCSI CDRW.
 
Of course, I'm selling my rig to pay for it, but oh well

that Plextor is a damned good cdrw, i got the EIDE version and i have never had a problem with it.

Updated System Specs and 3DMarks. Due to the hard drive being my system's bottleneck, 3DMark 2000 and 2001 scores are low.
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MotherBoard - Abit VH6 Socket 370 (1 AMR, 1 AGP, 5 PCI, 1 ISA)
Fan/Cooling - (CPU) Alpha PEP66T Heatsink with 38cfm Fan (12vDC)
Processor(s) - Intel Pentium III 667@750MHz (150MHz*5)
Hard Drive - Seagate U Series 30.6GB 5400rpm IDE (Primary Master)
Memory - 256MB Total. Two Sticks 128MB, SDRAM PC133 CAS2 168pin DIMM
Video Card - Hercules 3D Prophet II MX 32MB AGP o/c'ed (Core-210mhz, ram-220mhz)
Modem - Phoebe Micro 56K V.90 PCI
Sound Card - VIA Audio (OnBoard)
MPEG Decoder - Sigma Designs REALMagic Hollywood Plus! PCI
Ethernet Adapter - RealTek 8029(AS) 10BaseT Ethernet Adapter
Removeable Storage - Mitsumi 3.5" Floppy Drive
DVD-ROM - Pioneer DVD-115 16x DVD ROM Drive IDE (Secondary Master)
CD-RW - Plextor Plexwriter 12x/10x/32x CD-RW Drive IDE (Secondary Slave)
Extra Fan - Intake Fan (22cfm) Modded into side of case.
Operating System - Windows 2000 Professional 5.00.2195.1;SP1
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Standard Benchmarks!
3dMark2000 - 4291
3dMark2001 - 3026

Had to drop my ram from 211 to 210, unfortunately. You sure its your hard drive there, eddie, cuz ive got a 5400 rpm drive too and I score in the 5500~5600's with my oc and tweaks. Maxtor drives are pretty fast in the 5400rpm range, according to this one pcworld article I saw. Of course that is one article, but it did put the Seagate drives as some of the slowest.
Wow, I mustve done some serious tweaking to get this good of a score with what Ive got.
 
I'd love to OC my P3 667 on my Tyan Trinity, but I dont think that board was ever intended for OCing.
 
So, pimpin, hows your scores doin there?

Ahh, my 3dmark2001 score: 2970.