New AquaMark3 score

[JaS]

aquamark3 clocks
CoreClock: 464
MemoryClock: 267

3dmark03 clocks
CoreClock: 440
MemoryClock: 267

3dmark03 i had to lower the cpu clock cos i think it was gettting hot and it was locking up but i live in florida and i have the windows and doors open and no air so thats prob why the cpu was getting hot

 

[JaS]

oh btw is there and irc channel or a irc server that ppl from this forum hang out on?

 

[zAAm]

Oh, that makes sense of the 3DMark score then. And if you're able to run it at the Aquamark3 clocks then yes, it's a good performing card. Otherwise it's a normally overclocked card... . I get roughly the same scores when I clock my card 410/265 so. (but once again my CPU does help a teeny bit, although it is less with 3DMark03) And your dual channel RAM may also bring up the Aquamark score. Lucky you.

 

[JaS]

Oh, that makes sense of the 3DMark score then. And if you're able to run it at the Aquamark3 clocks then yes, it's a good performing card. Otherwise it's a normally overclocked card... . I get roughly the same scores when I clock my card 410/265 so. (but once again my CPU does help a teeny bit, although it is less with 3DMark03) And your dual channel RAM may also bring up the Aquamark score. Lucky you.

sorry when i said cpu clock you know its the cpu on the vid card gpu right not my system cpu

 

[JaS]

i have an intel d865gbf and it wont let me overclock my cpu damn it!!!!!

 

[zAAm]

Yeah, I assumed you meant the core frequency.

 

[JaS]

im sure you know this but for anyone reading this thread ill say it anyway

i noticed that when i set my agp apt. size in my bios to the max amount 256 for my bios
i was able to get extra aqua and 3dmark points i think it was afew thousand in aquamark

 

[zAAm]

I only have 512MB so I can't just donate a half of my memory just for textures... Hehe. But yeah, if you have a lot of memory why not. I don't quite think I'll get a few thousand more marks in Aquamark if I set that to 256MB though. What interests me is fast writes, it doesn't have a real performance incluence in most cases. And it sometimes makes your overclocked graphics card unstable. But I've yet to prove that theory. Just for interests' sake.

 

[JaS]

I only have 512MB so I can't just donate a half of my memory just for textures... Hehe. But yeah, if you have a lot of memory why not. I don't quite think I'll get a few thousand more marks in Aquamark if I set that to 256MB though. What interests me is fast writes, it doesn't have a real performance incluence in most cases. And it sometimes makes your overclocked graphics card unstable. But I've yet to prove that theory. Just for interests' sake.

the omega drivers set fast writes off by default because of that and says to only enable them if
your 9600 doest work without them i could enable it and do afew benches .. maybe cos of the dual channel ram and the extra agp apt size is why i got the extra few thousand

 

[JaS]

ok well i went into my mobo bois and tweaked my ram settings (cas latency) from 8 to 7 and ran 3dmark again and this is the new score same clocks

 

[JaS]

but i think thats all im going to get till i get some Arctic silver 5 on the gpu and maybe some watercooling and ramsinks

 

[wazzledoozle]

What does fastwrite do anyways?

 

[JaS]

New AquaMark3 score : 30,464

ok now heres the new auqmark3 score after the change

 

[JaS]

Damn!!

check this out !

 

[wazzledoozle]

check this out !

"The benchmark was not run using default settings"

 

[JaS]

"The benchmark was not run using default settings"

i wasn't trying to hide it i set the color down to 16 bit does that mean it doesnt count?

 

[JaS]

ok i put the color back up didnt make much difference tho

 

[zAAm]

What did you do to get 15000 vs. the 12000 that you got yesterday? I would like to know...

 

[JaS]

well what i did was rerun the test with the agp ap size at max (it wasnt the first time) i also set the ram timings down from 8-3-4-4 to 6-2.0-3-3 (thats about a 25% increase i think but im not sure there) and i havent run it since i set the hynix 4ns ram on the card to the right time they came from ATI at hynix 5ns timings ... dont know why they did that.also ive noticed i have genuine ATI and INTEL products and maybe that helps with the test cos of quality of the componints can take more of a beatingand heating up i dont know cos i havent ever done overclocking till i joined this site

 

[JaS]

also i ran it while i had the a/c on but cooling is cooling lol

 

[JaS]

also is there an irc server or channel ppl for this forum hang out on btw?

 

[JaS]

you should get another sitck of ram and try the tests yourself with agp apt size set to max ans running in dual channel see what happens

 

[zAAm]

I don't have a dual channel motherboard. I have an Asus K8V-X. But this isn't really something I'm too worried about...

 

[JaS]

I don't have a dual channel motherboard. I have an Asus K8V-X. But this isn't really something I'm too worried about...

Right on

 

[JaS]

anyone else want to post there scores?