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Re: Slot A: Aiming for the stars

in Marvin \ Video
...Not sure why it shows as socket A in CPUz.... ...my 900MHz SLOT-A machine (also reports as Socket A in CPU-Z)... CPU-Z misidentified my Athlon as a Socket A CPU too, so I tried WCPUID, and WCPUID correctly reports that I have a Slot A CPU. CPU-Z also misreports my Irongate north bridge's …

Re: Slot A: Aiming for the stars

in Marvin \ Video
...What Nvidia driver version did you use? 30.82 Can you please add screenshots using the print screen button? I ran the benchmarks again to create full-screen screenshots and got slightly higher scores. 3dMark2000 6849 with GF2U 3082.png 3dMark2001 4936 with R9000.png ...I wanted to try my GF3 but …

Re: Slot A: Aiming for the stars

in Marvin \ Video
Here are my final scores. (The 900 MHz Slot A Thunderbird CPU, HP-branded Asus K7M mainboard and 512 MB of PC100 memory are the same as they were on October 14, 2003.) 3dMark2000 with GeForce 2 Ultra.gif 3dMark2001 with Radeon 9000.gif I was surprised by CPU-Z Legacy's lack of detail about these …

Re: Slot A: Aiming for the stars

in Marvin \ Video
I hope that you'll have better luck than I did when I tried removing a slot Athlon's case. I destroyed a CPU and have not dared to try to remove a slot Athlon's case since. My GFD remains unused. My GFD: Anyone know where to get a goldfinger device?

Re: Slot A: Aiming for the stars

in Marvin \ Video
1024×768 is my desktop resolution, but I worked around the issue. I installed a GeForce FX 5500 PCI; then, the 3dMark 2001 benchmark ran completely. (Those swimming fish are pretty cool.) It seems that the ol' TNT2 M64 just couldn't do enough of 3dMark2001's newfangled DirectX 8 tricks.

Re: Slot A: Aiming for the stars

in Marvin \ Video
Is there a setting in bios for the AGP speed? No, I'm using an HP OEM motherboard with limited BIOS configuration options. I have read that I could flash it with an Asus K7M BIOS to get more options, but I haven't dared to try that yet. Finally, I collected scores using my TNT2 M64, the weakest …

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