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YviE

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Hey guys,

Here's my problem.
I got an Epox 8K5A3+, 512Mb PC2700 Samsung, XP1600+

Anyway the CPU is partially unlocked (5x, 5.5x, 6x, 9x, 9.5x, 10x & 10.5x).

To test my system performance I use 3DMark2001 and Sandra 2003.

OK, here are the 2 situations :

- 10x166 (cas2) : Sandra 2003 = 2500Mb/sec
3Dmark2001 = 11300 3Dmarks

- 9x183 (cas2.5) : Sandra 2003 = 2700Mb/sec
3Dmark2001 = 11000 3Dmarks

Besides those benchmarks, i don't see any real performance difference in games and apps.

Which bench should i trust, which setting should i use? :rolleyes:

Thanx!
 
the 3dmark I would of thought would of given a better score with the higher FSB - I mean I didnt think that cas2.5 under cas2 would give that much of a performance hit...

also the second memory bandwidth seems a bit low - for a 183FSB you would have near to a 3GB throughput
 
It's weird that the performance hit is so big for 3Dmark2001. Because i get more throughput with Sandra at higher busspeed.

I don't know whether 2700Mb/sec is fine, but remember that it is at cas 2.5.
 
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