Why do I have a good overclock and bad benchmarks?

[ElectricMan]

I have my duron 700 at 1010 and when i run 3Dmark 2000 I can only get a benchmark of 2884., some people who have almost the same setup are claiming 5000 - 6000 . I have a A7V Mb rev. 102 with pc100 mem 128mg. 40 gig ata66 HD 7200 RPM , and a voodoo 3 card with 16mgs ram. I am thinking that my video card needs replaced. also it better to have a higher FSB setting or a Higher multipler setting

 

[dadx2mj]

Pretty sure the Voodoo is the bottleneck. And yes FSB increace speeds up everything , multipier just speeds up CPU

 

[Nagorak]

V3 is slowing you down.

 

[ElectricMan]

I was thinking of buying a geforce 2 mx with 32 mgs of ram. Would this be a good card? also should I always look for a AGP card instead of a PCI for a asus A7V MB ? and one last question about overclocking the video card , should I if possible and is it down with jumpers on the card itself? thanks for all input!

 

[klosters64a]

AGP is preferable. PCI is a bottleneck. Some GF2 MX's come with overclocking software along with the drivers on the CDROM that's included with the Vidcard. I don't think that there are jumpers for OCing on many modern Vidcards. There are shareware progs available to OC your GF2 MX.

 

[AZZKICKER]

yup

use the nvidia referance drivers and use this patch to let you use the overclocking section of the drivers

got my asus g force2 gts 64meg running 233/420