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Overclocking
First
off, the video card would not overclock at all.
I tried using the coolbits registry hack. The
core/memory speeds weren't displayed so I tried
updating the drivers and still no indication of
the core/memory speeds. I tried guessing a value
and ran the card a few MHz higher...instant BSOD
which forced me to restart the system. Since this
failed, the next option was powerstrip. Powerstrip
reported the card to be running at 200MHz core
and 333MHz memory. Overclocking was also not possible.
I set the value of the card even to just a 1MHz
increase and the card would revert to default
speed all of the time. Another thing was that
I only had 3 hours to benchmark 3 video cards
so that would really prevent me from testing cards
extensively.
Test
System
AMD
Duron 900MHz
Abit KT7E ZT Bios
256MB Kingston CAS2 PC133 SDRAM
Elsa Gladiac MX 32MB (175/166)
Abit Siluro T400 64MB (200/333)
Abit Siluro T200 32MB (175/166)
Creative Labs SoundBlaster Live! Value
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 60 20.4GB 7200RPM ATA100
HDD
Windows
98 SE
DirectX8a
VIA 4-in-1 Version 4.29
Detonator 12.20
Benchmarks
Quake
III Arena demo001, v1.17
Fastest 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768
High Quality 640X480, 800X600, 1024X768
MDK2
Trilinear Filtering, Max Texture Detail, Hardware
T&L 640X480X16, 800X600X16, 1024X768X16
Trilinear Filtering, Max Texture Detail, Hardware
T&L 640X480X32, 800X600X32, 1024X768X32
3DMark2001
Compressed Textures, 16-bit Z-buffer, Triple
Buffer, Hardware T&L 1024X768X16
Compressed Textures, 24-bit Z-buffer, Double Buffer,
Hardware T&L 1024X768X32
Looking
at 3DMark scores alone is pretty much boring and
it's hard to tell the difference that way. For
this review, individual framerates results of
3DMark2001 to specify and possibly emphasize the
difference of the competing video cards. All cards
were ran at default core/memory speeds.
Quake
III and MDK2 |
