Does running the agpclk at 1/1 rather than 2/3 on a
100 mhz fsb system do anything?
rob.
>Further to my previous post I installed the new 252 drivers for the Diamond
>Viper 550 and also messed around with overclocking the card (after putting
a
>fan on it!) with the Gamers assistant. I benchmarked as I went along with
>3DMark 99 so for anyone who is interested the results were:
>Viper Drivers 241: 1875
>Viper Drivers 245: 1880
>Viper Drivers 252: 2146
>Next I messed with the Core & Memory speeds (defaults are 90Mhz & 110Mhz)
>C100 & M 115 : 2148
>C115 & M 115 : 2161
>conclusion: overclocking the card does not a lot for you but the 252
drivers
>are well worth having...uplift in the benchmark of 14.45%. I clocked the
>card back to standard.........
>Anyone who wants them should go to http://www.racesimcentral.net/; follow the
>link. For some reason they are on the MS web site & not at diamond! Read
the
>Readme file re setting back to std VGA before you install the new drivers &
>you'll save yourself half an hour!
>Right, I'm off to turn a few laps in GPL & see what the benefits are!
>c-ya,
>I.