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#1 Mar 12 2004 at 2:29 PM Rating: Decent
OK, I recently upgraded almost my entire system...new specs:

Gigabyte 7VT600 w/ VIA KT-600 chipset
Athlon XP 2600+ at just under 2.0 GHz
2 * PC2100 256 DDR
1 * PC2700 512 DDR
40 GB UATA Seagate harddrive
Radeon 9600SE 126Mb 8xAGP
Windows XP Pro
Directx 9.0b
Using onboard AC'97 sound and LAN
300 watt power supply.
2 case fans.

With this setup I get a score of 2000-2100 on the benchmark. How can I get a higher score? Playing the game at 1152 res. things are still choppy and I can see the edges of the polygons sometimes. I have all video settings set for performance and I have tweaked everything that I know.

I'm thinking the only hardware issue could be the RAM (do I need PC3500 or something?) or the power supply (which I doubt).

Which brings me to my main problem of software....anyone have suggestions? I ran Perfectdisk, Ad-aware, Norton, etc. Still no help. Should I make a separate hardware profile that has no services running in the background?

Thank you in advance for any help.

- Matt
#2 Mar 12 2004 at 3:25 PM Rating: Excellent
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First thing I'd check is your BIOS settings. Is your agp throughput set to 8x with 128mb bufffer?

With ram, the slowest chip will determine the speed of all the ram. So essentially you are getting 3 2100 chips. I would upgrade the others to 2700 or higher as soon as possible.

The seagate drive, is it a 7200 rpm drive or is it slower?

That power supply should be adequate, but there is a slight possibilty you could be undervolting. If you see a cheap 350w supply, I'd grab it.

Make sure you run defragment after you get everything installed
#3 Mar 12 2004 at 3:55 PM Rating: Decent
What would be better, 1Gig of PC2700 or 512 of PC3200? Also, the harddrive is 7200 rpm. I ran perfectdisk two nights ago, so it's not fragmented at all. Can I set the bios to recognize two different ram speeds? Thanks.
#4 Mar 12 2004 at 4:55 PM Rating: Excellent
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harpuamm wrote:
What would be better, 1Gig of PC2700 or 512 of PC3200? Also, the harddrive is 7200 rpm. I ran perfectdisk two nights ago, so it's not fragmented at all. Can I set the bios to recognize two different ram speeds? Thanks.


I personally would go with the 512 of 3200 for the moment, then upgrade as you can afford it.

That drive should be good for now.

For bios, the processor needs to be able to send data to each of the ram chips at exactly the same speed for stability. If you had one chip firing at a higher speed, your programs would get ahead in some areas, and lag severly in others.
#5 Mar 12 2004 at 5:33 PM Rating: Decent
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I think that's the best thing also. I think I'll keep the PC2700 512 in there and eventually swap it out with another PC3200. Thanks a lot for the help.
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