First post, by winuser_pl
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Hi guys. I've bought this Asus motherboard couple weeks ago, but yesterday found some time to take care of it. I was wondering how this Trident gpu will perform under 3DMark 99. So there are the results.
Test bench:
ASUS CUPLE-VM v1.03
CPUs - a range of CPUs for S370: Intel Celeron 400, 466 (Mendocino, 66 MHz FSB), Intel Pentium III 866, 1000 MHz (Coppermine, 133 MHz FSB), VIA C3 733 A (Samuel 2, 133 MHz FSB).
RAM - 128 MB SDRAM 133, also tried 192 MB of 133 MHz SDRAM.
As you will see in the results, the Celeron was that bad at the end, VIA has been totally beaten, given it's core clock I'd expect a lot more.
As for the graphics card it is not that bad, but it needs high power CPU, a 1 GHz Pentium III is enough.
The motherboard offers an option to overclock CPU by increasing FSB up to 140 MHz max, and it worked well. The system was stable.
More details in the following posts.
As for the "GPU oc" results - I tried to overclock this card by incrasing core clock in PowerStrip program, but as it turned out it didn't worked.
PC1: Highscreen => FIC PA-2005, 64 MB EDO RAM, Pentium MMX 200, S3 Virge + Voodoo 2 8 MB
PC2: AOpen => GA-586SG, 512 MB SDRAM, AMD K6-2 400 MHz, Geforce 2 MX 400
