farmuse
Guest
|
 Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: VA-503+ roundup questions and some New questions |
 |
|
Ah yes, and my friends wonder why I would rather game under 98,
several reasons but it uses less system resources right ?
To be honest, I would still overclock that GF2, you might be
surprised. You won't really know until you try. If still no happiness
then save up for a K6 2 550 or a K 6 III plus and overclock that, they
can often reach 600 MHz. Then you would be happy.
Cheers from America, John
Mikeluz wrote:
| Quote: | Farmuse
I suppose I don't explained myself well : NFSPU runs faster on W98SE
(30FPS) than on XP (20PFS)
With an GF4 Ti4200 AGP card the game (NFSPU) won't give me any more
FPS, it's CPU bottlenecked -- it's not entirely true, but I'll explain
below. I suppose that "car simulation/arcade games" are very CPU
demanding rather than GPU demanding, in general. Shoot'em up games from
the NFSPU era I suppose were less CPU demanding games...
I tell this because with a GF2MX, with game effects on medium, the FPS
rate don't change when I pass the screen resolution from 640x480 to
800x600, so it's the CPU the limiting factor at those resolutions --
this because game effects are CPU demanding;
At 1024x768 the FPS rates goes down -1~ -2FPS, so the GPU starts
becoming ALSO a limiting factor, and overclocking will do it the trick,
but on a slower system like this one, it won't give me real benefits,
because the CPU is the major bottleneck;)
I bumped the voltage to 2.4V @ 450MHz (I tried also @ 2,5V for
increased stability) but I found out, that for the games that I play
the most (NFS3, 4, 5) --on this system, well understood;)--, the FPS
increase of about 1FPS on every 25PFS won't make a real difference over
the * base FPS rate @ 400MHz* of 30FPS (i.e. an effective increase of 1
~2FPS), so I give up on the idea of overclocking by bumping the
multiplier from 4x to 4.5x... Case the L2 cache was up to the FSB
112MHz that would make a noticeable difference (about 10% increase)
over the mere 3% increase on FPS gived by bumping only the multiplier.
If anyone knows how to tweak L2 cache voltage or decrease L2 cache
latency, tell us! Maybe that will do the trick to use the 112MHz FSB.
Until then, I'll use the default setting (4x 100MHz @ 2.2V)
Kind regards,
Mikeluz
|
|
|
Watched Topics
Search
Register
Log in to check your private messages
Profile
Log in
Memberlist
Usergroups