Caxus
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So i finally got my athlon 64 up and running and was all excited to see the performance increase over my old barton 2500. I was saddened when my first run of 3dmark2001se was a little over 14000. Thats with a sapphire radeon 9800 pro. This can't be right. I was getting 17222 with my old system. Granted i had my barton overclocked to 2800 speeds but still i would have thought that i should get at least 19000 with my new system before i overclocked it. I guess i'm a bit suspicious of the video card too because its different as well. I sold my old system to a friend which had my retail ati radeon 9800 pro and so i replaced it by getting an oem sapphire radeon 9800 pro assuming that they would be pretty much identical. I guess i'll try putting my old card in and seeing if that makes a difference. You don't think my 300w power supply is limiting my system do you? That would only affect stability wouldn't it?
EDIT: I turned on fastwrites which helped but i'm still only getting 16500 in 3dmark2001se. Reviews i've read that have almost my exact same system have gotten slightly over 20k with stock speeds. Could i have a bad cpu, motherboard, or video card?
EDIT: I turned on fastwrites which helped but i'm still only getting 16500 in 3dmark2001se. Reviews i've read that have almost my exact same system have gotten slightly over 20k with stock speeds. Could i have a bad cpu, motherboard, or video card?