Yes, I was saying it still tends to soak in to one's thinking in general when one has read a lot of contemporary reviews, comments, forum discussion. Meaning there's a lot of cards around that everyone thought were "absolutely awful" in the day, when they were really only a few percent off the pace, which, when you can pick cards from any generation to run a given game the absolute fastest, isn't all that important. ... when it comes to enjoying what it "is" instead of what it isn't.

atom1kk wrote on 2022-02-26, 16:40:

So got my new board and here is the update. The first board i have bought was unfortunately broken, so i had to get another one. […]
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So got my new board and here is the update.
The first board i have bought was unfortunately broken, so i had to get another one. At least i got a p4 2.4, some RAM and a MSI FX5200 with the broken one.

So the first test i did was with th 2.0 GHz and FX 5600. the drivers ere 56.64
Gainward FX5600 7400 points
MSI 5200 6400
No name FX5200 4600.

The No name FX 5200 seems to be a cripled version. As i looked more onto the card, i saw that it has only two RAM chips on it. so i think this one is a 64 bit version or something like that.

i was quite suprised thatI had quite the same results like with the other board. only the no name 5200 had 1000 points more.

Switched to the 2,4 CPU.
Gainward FX5600 8600 points
MSI 5200 7400

it seems that the CPU has a big impact on the results in 3dmark01.

Now i wanted to try out another driver where the 5600 did an automatic reset on the PC. The version is 44.03. Not the pc botted without any issues.

did another run
Gainward FX5600 9000 points
MSI 5200 7700

As you can see, the drivers gave also some performance boost.

But still strange the the 5600 didnt reach my expected points of 9500-10000.
So what wondersme, that the MSI 5200 did a quite good result. So the question is, is the MSI 5200 card a good one or the Gainward 5600 a bad version. The difference between them is smaller than i have expected

At least with the new board the system runs very stable. I can use different drivers without any issues.

As I posted above, my Asus FX5600 scored just over 9,000 points on the 3D Mark 2001 SE benchmark with a slightly faster system, so your score seems to be about what it should be.

ok. i think i will accept it now 😁 but didnt expect the cpu to have such a big impact. Atleast the system runs fine now. Only one shame, the PS2 port for the mouse doesnt work on the board