That's the weakest of the GeForce3 cards. My results on a 2 GHz Northwood P4 with 512 MB RDRAM running Windows 2000:

3DMark2000: 8394
3DMark2001 SE: 6154

Errius wrote on 2020-05-22, 23:27:

That's the weakest of the GeForce3 cards. My results on a 2 GHz Northwood P4 with 512 MB RDRAM running Windows 2000:

3DMark2000: 8394
3DMark2001 SE: 6154

I'd expect closer to that than the scores im getting, they seem to match up historically with pentium 3 600-700mhz systems

My card has a bulging capacitor which I'm too lazy to fix. How does yours look?

PC600 RDRAM is not especially fast and that CPU is certainly worse off than the 2GHz part Errius is using. Which card do you have exactly? Perhaps it is downclocked slightly compared to other Ti200 cards, but I doubt it, could just be a case of Willamette being slow. I have the same board with a 1.3GHz part and it is impressively slow 😁.

What games are you trying to play?

Intels 850 chipset was the first and one of the slowest P4 made, specially on a genuine Intel board. You would get better results off a 845 or 865 chipset. I got rid of all my RDIMM boards long ago and have never looked back, but that is just me...

its the Dell Ti 200, its clock speeds at 175/400 and it overclocks stable to 220/480, though my original run was at stock, i put a fan on the stock passive heatsink and freash TIM. No bulging caps, at near ti 500 speeds it picks up to 5781 in 3dmark01 which still seems slow.

Games I tried on it and I wasn't happy with
Need for speed Hot Pursuit 2, felt unsmooth
Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Medal of Honor Allied Assault at Medium/High stuttered,
maybe I'm expecting to much from this card, i got it to replace my 8500 LE as my KVM is DVI only, and the 8500 LE is faster, and yes i used driver cleaner pro 1.5 before swapping cards to make sure the ATI drivers where gone. Now my 8500LE 128mb did hit 290/605 so its clock speed where way better, but i didn't expect this disparity.

I also have on order 4x256mb PC800 RIMMS that I hope will help, and i know this isn't the optimal pentium 4 chipset or socket, but i always wanted a socket 423 system

Well, at stock speeds, the GF3 Ti200 might actually be more in line with some of the faster GeForce2 offerings. You have to keep in mind, with later drivers and faster CPUs, the 8500 is actually closer to the GF4 Ti cards than it is to GF3 cards, so it actually makes sense that the 8500LE would beat the Ti200.

As far as the games go, they are demanding games from late 2001 and 2002. Again, the CPU is just not that fast, so you're definitely getting hampered there, combined with a GPU that is more like a fast GF2 for non Pixel Shader enabled games and depending on the resolution that you are running... It actually makes some sense 😀.

Faster RAM should help, just don't expect any miracles.

can you go for an older driver? as old as possible