First post, by Downer
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Howdy,
I recently obtained this motherboard for a windows 98 build and it had bios version p15. When I updated the bios to p21 the 3d mark 2001 score drops by around 2000 and the frame rate is noticeably sluggish. On the nature benchmark the frames drop around to 17 or about half from the previous bios version. The only game I've been able to test between the two bios versions is unreal tournament 99 and the frame rate seem to runs more consistently with the P21 bios. I suppose my questions are why do the benchmarks drop so drastically and should i not even worry about rolling back the bios since the game seems to run more smoothly on the later bios?
The gpu is an asus v8200 deluxe geforce 3 ti 200 along with a northwood 3.2 pentium 4 with a single 512 mb ram stick if that helps. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Edit: on 4/13/21
If you're running windows 98 with a geforce 3 ti 200 in this board and running benchmarks you may want to use Bios P19 and not P21 (last update). I haven't tried other cards to know if they have similar frame rate issues but it is possible.