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  • Athlon 500 + G400(201/151) = Sweet Combo

    I've recorded some scores with my Athlon500 + G400 combo for those interested in getting the AMD Athlon processor.

    System Setup:
    AMD Athlon 500 (OEM)
    Microstar MS-6167 Mainboard
    G400 SH 32MB (overclocked to 201/151 via entech's Performance Tuner)
    PowerDesk 5.21.017
    128MB PC100

    All tests were ran 3 time with the highest score chosen. All test were using 16bit color. Vsync, of course, was disabled.

    3DMark 99 Pro:
    800x600 5259 3DMarks
    8987 CPUMarks
    1024x768 5183 3DMarks
    8943 CPUMarks

    Rage's Incoming:
    139.69 IncomingLuxEtRobur V1.01

    Forsakin 'Ship Demo':
    240.95

    Rage's Expendable(EMBM Disabled):
    640x480 51.5
    1024x768 48.0

    Quake2 Timedemo:
    640x480 86.7
    800x600 83.1
    1024x768 65.9
    1600x1200 31.9

    Quake2 Crusher:
    640x480 44.0
    1024x768 39.2

    Quake3 Test 1.08:
    Fastest 62.0
    Fast 53.4
    Normal 48.0
    High Quality 42.6

    Well there you have it. The AMD Athlon is trully a good performer. Once Matrox tweak their OpenGL drivers, the G400 should best the TNT2/Utra with this combo.

    BTW, for those wondering where to get the Athlon/Motherboard combo, I got mine at Himemsys Corp

  • #2
    I must admit I love the Athlon. It's a great competitor for the Intel PIII chips but I also must say that these scores disappoint me a little. First I read at Tom's Hardware that it's almost impossible to o/c the athlon you have to alter the PCB to do so which I dont intend to do ! and secondly my scores on a PIII-500 @ 575 and G400 32MB o/c to 150/200 is
    800x600 - 3DMark: 5647
    CPU 3DMark: 8834

    as u can see I get a little better 3DMarks and my CPU 3DMark is almost as high as urs...
    I am not moving to athlon yet... (although I have now $3000 to spend...)

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    • #3
      WOW I didn't read ur 3DMark score correctly !!! mine is MUCH higher ! How did that happen ?!?!?! mybe the athlon motherboards are still crappy ?!? I got my score with 5.21 as well.

      Did you leave any program in the tray ? It's hard to believe that an Athlon will score 5200+ and my PIII scored 5600+ .

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      • #4
        Just test Q3Test 1.08 with th 5.21 drivers:

        Fastest - 59.6
        Fast - 50.0
        Normal - 45.1
        Hi Quality - 42.8

        (High Quality uses 32bit)
        PIII-500@575 G400 32MB @ 150/200 and I used High Quality sound in quake and didnt alter the game options.

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        • #5
          Here you go... 1024x768 (32Bit - not 16bit)
          Original CD drivers (didn't have time to update), Original BIOS, no tweaks (heh-heh, other than the 89Mhz AGP Bus caused by 133FSB )


          Project Settings (Template):
          Rendering Platform: Internal (Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead - English)
          Resolution: 1024*768
          Color Depth: 32-bit Color
          CPU Optimization: Intel(r) Pentium(r) III
          Z-Buffer: 32-bit
          Frame Buffer: Triple buffering
          Refresh Rate: 84 Hz
          Looping: Disabled
          Texture Format: 32-bit, 8888 RGBA
          Run Tests: Once
          Title Screen: Shown

          Test Results:
          3DMark Result : 4,399 3DMarks
          Synthetic CPU 3D Speed : 9,509 CPU 3DMarks
          Rasterizer Score : 1,721 3DRasterMarks
          Game 1 - Race: 41.4 FPS
          Game 2 - First Person: 46.9 FPS
          Fill Rate : 155.9 MTexels/s
          Fill Rate With Multi-Texturing : 185.4 MTexels/s
          2MB Texture Rendering Speed: 192.6 FPS
          4MB Texture Rendering Speed: 139.0 FPS
          8MB Texture Rendering Speed: 118.4 FPS
          16MB Texture Rendering Speed: 90.2 FPS
          32MB Texture Rendering Speed: 54.8 FPS
          Bump Mapping Emboss, 3-pass: 42.6 FPS
          Bump Mapping Emboss, 2-pass: 61.1 FPS
          Bump Mapping Emboss, 1-pass: 126.8 FPS
          Point Sample Texture Filtering Speed: 116.2 %
          Bilinear Texture Filtering Speed: 100.0 %
          Trilinear Texture Filtering Speed: 72.6 %
          Anisotropic Texture Filtering Speed: Not Supported
          6 Pixel/individual: 2,499.5 KPolygons/s
          6 Pixel/strips: 3,474.5 KPolygons/s
          25 Pixel/individual: 1,163.3 KPolygons/s
          25 Pixel/strips: 1,195.4 KPolygons/s
          50 Pixel/individual: 770.7 KPolygons/s
          50 Pixel/strips: 801.4 KPolygons/s
          250 Pixel/individual: 279.7 KPolygons/s
          250 Pixel/strips: 294.1 KPolygons/s
          1000 Pixel/individual: 93.8 KPolygons/s
          1000 Pixel/strips: 97.5 KPolygons/s

          System:
          Windows Version: Windows 4 A , Build 2222
          DirectX Version: 4.06.03.0518
          Bios Version: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
          Bios Date: 03/01/99
          Total Physical Memory: 128 MB
          Free Physical Memory: 24 MB

          Processor:
          Processor Type: Intel Pentium III
          Processor Speed: 600 MHz
          Processor Caps: MMX SSE
          L1 Cache Size: 32 KB
          L2 Cache Size: 512 KB

          Desktop:
          2D Display Adapter Name: Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead - English
          2D Display Adapter Driver Date: 5-21-1999
          Monitor Name: MAG DX715T
          Monitor Driver Date: 4-23-1999
          Desktop Resolution: 1024*768
          Desktop Color Depth: 32-Bit Color

          3D Accelerator:
          Name: Matrox Millennium G400 DualHead - English
          Driver Name: G400DD32.DLL
          Driver Version: 4.11.01.1110
          Total Video Memory On Card: 32,697 KB
          Total Texture Memory: 83,897 KB
          Bus: AGP

          Supported Features:
          16-bit Rendering
          32-bit Rendering
          Point Sampling
          Point Sampling With Mip-Mapping
          Bilinear Filtering
          Bilinear Filtering With Mip-Mapping
          Trilinear Filtering
          Specular Gouraud Shading
          Vertex Fox
          Table Fog
          W-Fog
          Sub-Pixel Accuracy
          Alpha Blending
          Addivitive Alpha Blending
          Multiplicative Alpha Blending
          Vertex Alpha Blending
          Vertex And Texture Alpha Blending

          Supported 3D Display Modes:
          320*200, 16bit color
          320*240, 16bit color
          320*400, 16bit color
          400*300, 16bit color
          512*384, 16bit color
          640*400, 16bit color
          640*480, 16bit color
          800*600, 16bit color
          1024*768, 16bit color
          1152*864, 16bit color
          1280*1024, 16bit color
          1600*1200, 16bit color
          320*200, 32bit color
          320*240, 32bit color
          320*400, 32bit color
          400*300, 32bit color
          512*384, 32bit color
          640*400, 32bit color
          640*480, 32bit color
          800*600, 32bit color
          1024*768, 32bit color
          1152*864, 32bit color
          1280*1024, 32bit color
          1600*1200, 32bit color

          Supported Texture Formats:
          16-bit, 565 RGB
          16-bit, 4444 RGBA
          16-bit, 5551 RGBA
          15-bit, 555 RGB
          32-bit, 8888 RGBA
          24-bit, 888 RGB

          Please attach description of Your testing environment to all published results, charts and figures. Description is available for all projects. Exporting instructions can be found in Result Browser Help. Publishing requirements are described in the 3DMark license agreement You have agreed on.

          The results are created with 3DMark(tm) 99 (www.3dmark.com). Tests are performed without independent verification by Futuremark Corporation and that Futuremark Corporation makes no representations or warranties as to the result of the test. All products used in the test were shipping versions available to the general public.
          3DMark is a trademark of Futuremark Corporation Ltd/Oy


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          ABit BE6, PIII-450 OC'd 600Mhz. 128MB PC133HSDRAM, 2.0V, 39C, Matrox Millenium G400 MAX, Adaptec 2940UW, Seagate Cheetah 9.1GB, Quantum 4.5GB, Kenwood 52X TrueX, Mitsumi 3XDVD, Sony SDT-5010 4MM DAT, Toshiba 32X SCSI CD, Iomega 100MB Zip ATAPI, 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy, 3Com/USR 56K Voice Faxmodem Pro, HP DeskJet 895CXi, Pioneer VSX-3700S Dolby Surround Receiver, Design Accoustics 3-way fronts, Pioneer Surrounds, Logitech Marble

          [This message has been edited by Guyver (edited 09-07-1999).]
          Gaming Rig.

          - Gigabyte GA-7N400-Pro
          - AMD Athlon 3200+ XP
          - 1.5GB Dual Channel DDR 433Mhz SDRAM
          - 6.1 Digital Audio
          - Gigabit Lan (Linksys 1032)
          - 4 x 120GB SATA Drives, RAID 0+1 (Striped/Mirrored)
          - Sony DRU-500A DVD/+/-/R/RW
          - Creative 8x DVD-ROM
          - LS120 IDE Floppy
          - Zip 100 IDE
          - PNY Ultra 5900 (256MB)
          - NEC FE950
          - DTT2500 Cambridge Soundworks

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          • #6
            We will be able to overclock the Athlon's soon enough. I understand that they have their own BIOS on board. The tool to flash them will be out before the year is out. It should be about/under $100.
            Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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            • #7
              It seems AMD mad the o/c of the athlon very hard... For now you need to solder some jumpers on the PCB to do it and even in the future you'll need an special card that you'll have to connect ot the internal connectors in the athlon PCB... Why can't they simply release a friendly overclockable chip (I mean both AMD and Intel) the first company to do so will gain a substantial amount of buyers... a Unlocked multiplayer with support for all the bus speeds in the range of 100-150Mhz... is it to much to ask ?
              Good morning and in case I don't see good afternoon, good evening and good night !

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              • #8
                **** !!! how did you get 133 FSB ?!?! it's amazing I have a PIII-500 and I cant pass the 575Mhz (115 FSB) it gives me a General protection fail on the windows startup !
                Good morning and in case I don't see good afternoon, good evening and good night !

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                • #9
                  There is a rumor out that Asus board would be able to oc Athlon.

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