Palomino Benchmarks

K7 Master BIOS settings:
AGP 4X enabled
Fast Writes enabled
Super Bypass enabled
Side Band enabled
Memory settings:
FAST 8-8-7-2-5-2-2 (for 133 and 140FSB)
SLOW 8-8-8-3-7-2-3 (for 150 FSB)

K7T266 settings:
R126 bridge closed with 102 SMD resistor
1.10 beta2 “b” BIOS
CAS 2.0
4-way interleave
1T command on
AGP aperture: 128
AGP 4X
AGP fastwrite enabled
AGP Sideband enabled
Marc Wessel’s WCPRSET registry tweak (use performance/stability version). I
avoided the ‘Ultra/benchmark’ version due to instability and lock-ups in 3D
benchmark and games. I do not have complete benchmarks for KT266Pro as I do
not have this board anymore.

*Note: I had some instability with the FAST settings during 150 FSB. It
would lock up in 3DMark and Q3A, so I had to turn it down just for this
test. Aside from this slight adjustment, all other tests ran superbly
without a single freeze or error. They all passed Prime95 torture test with
MP3 playing in the background.

I ran three consecutive runs on each test after each reboot. Took the best
score out of three runs and screen captured it (Print Screen key) along with
H-Oda’s WCPUID which shows the bus frequency and multipliers.

A7V133 was tested with all features maxxed as well. CAS 2 of course. (Don’t
own it any more)

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