In article <19970607070300.DAA23030@ladder02.news.aol.com> you write: >If you've been following along, you know I am now running an Asus TX97-E >instead of my Supermicro P5mms. I have bought a new case, installed three >fans and a blower plus my Peltier heatsink to cool the Cpu and Voltage >regulators. I said I would bench my system and post the scores here for >any interested. So here I am! I've spent the day benching the system and >I'm going to post my scores and list some information I picked up while >running(and in some cases failing to run) them. Enjoy! > >First, the system specs. >AMD K6-200 w/Peltier Fan >Asus 97TX-E Motherboard 512K cache >Matrox Millenium 4mg Wram >Quantum Fireball 3.2 gig Ultra DMA (as one 3.2 gig Fat32 partition) >Pioneer 12X Cd-rom >SoundBlaster 32 Pnp >Diamond Monster 3D >64megs Toshiba 10ns Sdram >Intel Bus mastering Drivers 3.0 >Windows95B > >I max'd out the memory timings(leaving the Speculative Leadoff off, when I >enabled it, the system became unstable...this, of course, gives the Sdram >it's lowest timings possible). I defrag'd the drive each time before >changing the Cpu/MB speed. I used WinBench, Wintune97, and Speedrate Ver. >1.2 for these tests. I did not run the 1024X768 screen resolution required >tests. My screen resolution was kept at 640X480 16.7 millions colours. >With the cooling system I implimented, my Cpu never rose above 44 degrees >celcius at 66X3.5(233mhz) and a Vcore of 3.2 volts. The scores: > >*75X2.5@187.5mhz (stable with 2.9V vcore) > >Winbench 97: >CpuMark16 410 > >CpuMark32 522 >Business Disk WinMark97 2590 >High-End Disk WinMark97 4630 >Business Database Graphics 8.23 >Business Graphics WinMark97 92.3 >Business Publishing Graphics 10.6 >Business WP/SS Graphics 9.07 > >Wintune 97: >Dhrystone 375 Mips >Whetstone 112 MFlops >Video Speed(32bpp) 64 MP/S >C:\ drive Cached 49 MB/S >C:\ drive Uncached 8 MB/S >Ram Read Average 423 MB/S >Ram Write Average 399 MB/S >Ram Copy Average 184 MB/S > >Speedrate 1.2: >Processor Test 743 >Disk Test 856 >Graphics Test 606 > >*66X3@200mhz (stable with 2.9V vcore) > >Winbench 97: >CpuMark16 414 >CpuMark32 513 >Business Disk WinMark97 2710 >High-End Disk WinMark97 4720 >Business Database Graphics 8.07 >Business Graphics WinMark97 91.7 >Business Publishing Graphics 10.5 >Business WP/SS Graphics 9.08 > >Wintune 97: >Dhrystone 396 Mips >Whetstone 120 MFlops >Video Speed(32bpp) 68 MP/S >C:\ drive Cached 41 MB/S >C:\ drive Uncached 8.1 MB/S >Ram Read Average 414 MB/S >Ram Write Average 410 MB/s >Ram Copy Average 193 MB/s > >Speedrate 1.2: >Processor Test 704 >Disk Test 903 >Graphics Test 572 > >*68X3@204mhz (stable with 2.9V vcore) > >Winbench 97: >CpuMark16 422 >CpuMark32 519 >Business Disk WinMark97 2680 >High-End Disk WinMark97 4690 >Business Database Graphics 8.52 >Business Graphics WinMark97 95.4 >Business Publishing Graphics 11 >Business WP/SS Graphics 9.34 > >Wintune 97: >Dhrystone 406 Mips >Whetstone 123 MFlops >Video Speed(32bpp) 64 MP/S >C:\ drive Cached 39 MB/S >C:\ drive Uncached 8.1 MB/S >Ram Read Average 430 MB/S >Ram Write Average 427 MB/S >Ram Copy Average 172 MB/S > >Speedrate 1.2: >Processor Test 764 >Disk Test 931 >Graphics Test 615 > >*60X3.5@210mhz (stable with 2.9V vcore) > >Winbench 97: >CpuMark16 407 >CpuMark32 480 >Business Disk WinMark97 2610 >High-End Disk WinMark97 4760 >Business Database Graphics 8.09 >Business Graphics WinMark97 91 >Business Publishing Graphics 10.5 >Business WP/SS Graphics 8.94 > >Wintune 97: >Dhrystone 412 Mips >Whetstone 126 MFlops >Video Speed(32bpp) 64 MP/S >C:\ drive Cached 42 MB/S >C:\ drive Uncached 8 MB/S >Ram Read Average 421 MB/S >Ram Write Average 427 MB/S >Ram Copy Average 184 MB/S > >Speedrate 1.2: >Processor Test 717 >Disk Test 866 >Graphics Test 583 > >*75X3@225mhz (stable with 3.0V vcore)<<<(my current settings) > >Winbench 97: >CpuMark16 453 >CpuMark32 557 >Business Disk WinMark97 2770 >High-End Disk WinMark97 4910 >Business Database Graphics 9.1 >Business Graphics WinMark97 101 >Business Publishing Graphics 11.8 >Business WP/SS Graphics 9.88 > >Wintune 97: >Dhrystone 444 Mips >Whetstone 134 MFlops >Video Speed(32bpp) 67 MP/S >C:\ drive Cached 52 MB/S >C:\ drive Uncached 8.2 MB/S >Ram Read Average 471 MB/S >Ram Write Average 466 MB/S >Ram Copy Average 205 MB/S > >Speedrate 1.2: >Processor Test 824 >Disk Test 912 >Graphics Test 663 > >*66X3.5@233mhz (stable with 3.1 or 3.2V vcore) > >Winbench 97: (Not Run) memory timings caused system instability when I >tried to run these benchmarks. I will adjust them and post any scores. >Note: these will be lower due to the lower memory timings. > >Wintune 97: >Dhrystone 459 Mips >Whetstone 140 MFlops >Video Speed(32bpp) 70 MP/S >C:\ drive Cached 49 MB/S >C:\ drive Uncached 8 MB/S >Ram Read Average 469 MB/S >Ram Write Average 476 MB/S >Ram Copy Average 204 MB/S > >Speedrate 1.2: >Processor Test 790 >Disk Test 804 >Graphics Test(failed due to memory timings) > >I was unable to run my system at 83mhz. I will investigate this further >and post any scores if I'm successful. > >I would appreciate any tips and information/benchmarks regarding this >chip. By all means post them or e-mail me. (Pace17@aol.com) All feedback >is welcome. > >Here are the jumper settings for the Vcore voltages again: >(In order VID2,VID1,VID0) >2.3V=(off,1-2,1-2) >2.5V=(1-2,off,1-2) >2.6V=(1-2,1-2,off) >2.7V=(1-2,1-2,1-2) >2.8V=(2-3,2-3,2-3) or (2-3,2-3,off) or (off,2-3,2-3) >2.9V=(2-3,2-3,1-2) >3.0V=(1-2,2-3,1-2) or (2-3,1-2,2-3) >3.1V=(2-3,1-2,1-2) >3.2V=(1-2,2-3,2-3) or (1-2,off,2-3) >3.3V= unknown >3.4V=(2-3,off,2-3) or (1-2,1-2,2-3) >3.5V=(2-3,off,1-2) >All jumpers off=no boot > >I will attempt to figure out the remaining motherboard speed jumpers next. > >I hope you enjoyed this posting. Good Luck in your endeavors! > Rik