Hmmm... Sparked by that question I decided to update drivers and see what kind of an impact they would have. Looking through the ORB, I saw the Omegas were scoring a few hundred points higher than the official Cats (which the W1zzard drivers are except for the softmod), so I decided to try them out.
W1zzard 4.7 - 2012
Omega 4.10b - 2193 (wow!! almost 200 extra points!)
Delving further turned up a few more supprises. First, '05 seems to be a lot more tolerant of memory speed than other programs. My games will die at over 303, but 3DMark ran flawlessly at 315 (and possibly higher, but I haven't tested). Stranger still, even with all the new pixel shaders and other things thrown in to torture the graphics card, it appears that my poor CPU is
still a bottleneck
Check the numbers...
Omegas 390/303, CPU Stock (11.5x133) - 2193
Omegas 390/306, CPU Stock (11.5x133) - 2194 (1 extra point for 3MHz mem...)
Omegas 390/306, CPU OCed (11.5x143) - 2223 (or 30 extra for 10MHz on my FSB)
I think I need to upgrade my CPU/Mobo
JigPu