was quiet challenging get this bugger stable.
It only has 200W Power Supply, with the Original 2800 Athlon XP drawing 1,65V (65W TDP) it was not possible getting it stable with the HD3450 installed.
So i replaced the CPU with a Athlon XP-M (45W, 1,45V) and run it at 1.4V giving me the Power for the Radeon AGP Card 😀
Also reduced Heat inside the Case a Lot!
Not so good, CPU won`t run on lower multipler with higher Bus, tried 200/166 etc. only 133Mhz is working fine.
was quiet challenging get this bugger stable.
It only has 200W Power Supply, with the Original 2800 Athlon XP drawing 1,65V (65W TDP) it was not possible getting it stable with the HD3450 installed.
So i replaced the CPU with a Athlon XP-M (45W, 1,45V) and run it at 1.4V giving me the Power for the Radeon AGP Card 😀
Also reduced Heat inside the Case a Lot!
Not so good, CPU won`t run on lower multipler with higher Bus, tried 200/166 etc. only 133Mhz is working fine.
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Idk if there are something wrong in your system or not, but seems like either your system isn't performing as expected or the VIA C7-D is actually more powerful than an Athlon XP-M at 1.8 ghz? i just saw and noticed the HD 3450 on my VIA C7-D scored higher and that CPU is slower than the Atom N270 and the P3-S 1400...
Here's 2 runs I did on my newest PC. Dell XPS 8940; i7 11700 @ 2.5GHz, 32GB DDR4 3200, Win 11 Pro, 256GB NVMe Main, 2TB Seagate data, 6TB WD backup, GeForce RTX 3060 12GB
Did one at the stock settings and then one at 1080p w/8X AA. It is very interesting how my CPU score on an 11th Gen i7 CPU (574 CPU score) really isn't that much better than on my Athlon XP 2500+ (522 CPU score). Also interesting how you can't run the sound tests on these new systems, but my old one with a Sound Blaster Live card in it can run them.
Here is a run from my Socket A build. System info not shown on the screen:
Motherboard: EpoX 8rga+ nForce2
CPU: 2500+ Barton
Memory: 2x512MB Corsair CMX3200C2 v5.4, timings 2, 3, 3, 6
GPU@450,800
Water blocks on CPU and GPU. GPU is stable with higher core clocks, but for some reason I get crashes with Freelancer anything above 450. Every other game and 3DMark benchmark works just fine, that is the only thing that so far seems to be unstable beyond 450. Also for the rest of the system, my Corsair memory or nForce2 memory controller doesn't want to go much higher than 200MHz as it is. I need to test other sticks further, but it may be that 512MB double sided ram and dual channel is just hitting the limits of the memory controller. Back in the day in 2003 when this system was released and relevant, the best performance was achieved usually with 2x256MB single sided sticks. I tested shortly memory in async mode and I could get higher FSB easily, so the limit is 100% on the memory side of things.
As I said, I have bunch of other memory modules available, so I may test other options, but I'll take 200MHz gladly with such timings and 1GB of RAM. I need to source XP-m Barton to get unlocked multiplier and potentially higher CPU clocks, though. I don't think this system can go to 6000 points mark, but I can probably squeeze a bit more with 100-200MHz higher CPU clocks.