Edward2
10-23-03, 10:03 PM
I just replaced my Albatron Ti4680P Turbo video card (Ti4200) in my IC7-G rig with an Asus 9480TVD video card (Ti4800SE). I thought that the Asus card might overclock better, and based on initial test results it does.
Anyway, I ran 3dmark01 last night with the new card and the FPS for all of the tests looked about right, except for Drag HI which was very low. The Drag HI test did not "freeze" or lockup. What would cause this one test to be so low? I have done all of the standard stuff: 3D LOD = 4, Vsync = off, FOG turned off, 3dmark program set to "realtime" in windows, etc.
The following results are using the same CPU, mobo, and memory, with all of these running at the same speed for both tests. The only difference that I know of is the video card. I uninstalled the old video card in W2K, shutdown the computer, swapped the video cards, booted up, and installed the new video card drivers (42.01).
Computer setup:
IC7-G, 2.4C @ 3.6GHz, 2*256MB memory at 200MHz 2-2-2-5
The Albatron memory speed was 675 MHz, while the Asus memory speed was 702 MHz. The GPU speed is shown in (xxx) in the following table.
(edit) - I'm not sure of the exact setting in RivaTuner that solved the problem with the Drag Hi test, but I solved it by installing the "42.30a OMEGA" drivers. See the updated FPS data below:
Test ............ Albatron ............. Asus ............ Asus w/Omega
Car Lo ....... 267.2 (341) ...... 260.2 (333) ..... 266.3 (333)
Car Hi ........ 109.4 (329) ...... 108.7 (329) ..... 108.0 (329)
Drag Lo .... 283.4 (341) ...... 292.4 (333) ...... 292.7 (333)
Drag Hi ..... 160.2 (329) ...... 147.4 (329) ...... 160.4 (329) ** YEAH !!
Lob Lo ...... 260.7 (341) ...... 261.9 (333) ...... 264.3 (333)
Lob Hi ....... 125.9 (341) ...... 125.6 (333) ...... 123.1 (333)
Nature ........ 99.3 (341) ........ 95.0 (333) ...... 101.3 (333) ** YEAH !!
Anyway, I ran 3dmark01 last night with the new card and the FPS for all of the tests looked about right, except for Drag HI which was very low. The Drag HI test did not "freeze" or lockup. What would cause this one test to be so low? I have done all of the standard stuff: 3D LOD = 4, Vsync = off, FOG turned off, 3dmark program set to "realtime" in windows, etc.
The following results are using the same CPU, mobo, and memory, with all of these running at the same speed for both tests. The only difference that I know of is the video card. I uninstalled the old video card in W2K, shutdown the computer, swapped the video cards, booted up, and installed the new video card drivers (42.01).
Computer setup:
IC7-G, 2.4C @ 3.6GHz, 2*256MB memory at 200MHz 2-2-2-5
The Albatron memory speed was 675 MHz, while the Asus memory speed was 702 MHz. The GPU speed is shown in (xxx) in the following table.
(edit) - I'm not sure of the exact setting in RivaTuner that solved the problem with the Drag Hi test, but I solved it by installing the "42.30a OMEGA" drivers. See the updated FPS data below:
Test ............ Albatron ............. Asus ............ Asus w/Omega
Car Lo ....... 267.2 (341) ...... 260.2 (333) ..... 266.3 (333)
Car Hi ........ 109.4 (329) ...... 108.7 (329) ..... 108.0 (329)
Drag Lo .... 283.4 (341) ...... 292.4 (333) ...... 292.7 (333)
Drag Hi ..... 160.2 (329) ...... 147.4 (329) ...... 160.4 (329) ** YEAH !!
Lob Lo ...... 260.7 (341) ...... 261.9 (333) ...... 264.3 (333)
Lob Hi ....... 125.9 (341) ...... 125.6 (333) ...... 123.1 (333)
Nature ........ 99.3 (341) ........ 95.0 (333) ...... 101.3 (333) ** YEAH !!