3dmark 2000/2001 discrepancy

[Tobes]

I bumped by AGP to x4 (was set to x4 in bios but OS hadn't picked it up - was actually x1) and my 3dmark 2000 score went from ~8400 to 9100.
Unfortunately the 3dmark 2001 score went backwards from ~3850 to 3700.
DirectX 8 loaded.

Can anyone suggest why this would happen?

My sig is a little out of date: CPU is at 11x146=1606, Video driver is 21.83 (the signature editor doesn't seem to work).

[Warlord2]

thats not a bad score for a gf2 gts

[Pitspawn]

150 3dmarks are too little value to take into account. A value like that can be considered an anomoly.

Restart you pc, make sure no TSRs are loaded and benchmark 2-3 times and take an average before and after. Then you will know if the AGP upping has caused a problem.

I highly doubt it would cause a problem unless there is a conflict in which your mobo would slow traffic down, thus lowering your score.

[Tobes]

Thanks for the replies, but I think I solved it.

I remembered having some problems with 3Dmark 2001 when I was using an MX vid card on my old Abit BH6 board.
In that case only setting the AGP aperture to '256' in bios would make it run ok.

The AGP aperture in my KK266's bios was set to 64, so I bumped it up to 128.
With the x4 AGP setting there must have been an aperture bottleneck happening.
Anyone know something about this?

I'm now getting just over 4000 3Dmarks in 2001 (with all my normal TSR's running BTW).