I overclocked my old system and it works great, improvement

I have an oldy but a goody, 478 socket with the Rambus 1066 RDram. this board used the 850e chip. That is the only chip in its day that the P-4 ever really performed with. I remember all those (OLD) AMD/Intel test with the AMD on the AMD chipset and the P-4 on anMSI board with the 645 chipset (POS). Anyways, I overclocked the x850XT AGP card to 580mhz and 590mhz, core and mem. Boy what a difference. I can reallu see the framerates smooth out. I always run everything maxed at 1600x1200. I used that Riva software. Very easy and seems to work great so far. It even tests it for you.
REgards, James

sure, but I dont have it hooked up right now. I can post them next week.

haha that's what i was thinking tenacious... is that sys. a waste of a great card?

or not? That p4 with rambus memory is 2 times faster than ur Duron OC. U should buy a GF2 GTS 4 ur computer, the 9800 is not the best choice .............BTW, he should post some bench results, i am curious to see an x850 with rambus

I guess the bias 1 sided crowd will never understand how things work. First I see people making things up. If you had a clue about anything but your 20 dollar durron, you would know the 850e chip with 1066 Rambus was by far the fasted thing out there at the time. We compared the AMD to intel on a real mother board, the Asus PT533 and it was nearly double any amd. In fact, the 1.6a outperformed the fasted AMD at the time. The silly sales pitch you fell for was comparing an intel p-4 on a 645 chipset, not the 850e with 1066 rambus. It was very expensive and that had a lot to do with guys like you that work at McDonalds not buying it. And you may want to read up, if you dont take my word for it. Toms hardware can explain to you why rambus failed. It was expensive and it was about as fast as it could go at 1066. It is still faster clock than DDR2, but the memory subsystem is dated compared to ddr2, and DDR2 does have much greater throuput. But remember, Rambus was out when SDram was dominant and still outperformed DDR. Of course DDR2 is better, b ut you will never get the same performace on some old duron cpu that a 478 p-4 3.06 with 533 fsb can deliver. sorry to write something so negative, but I can not stand to hear this lame, uninformed sales pitch anymore.

Ok, I ran 3dmark at 1600x1200, with D3D Pure Hardware T&L, 32 bit, 24 bit z buffering, 32 bit textures, double buffering and FSAA 4 samples. That is much higher than default settings, so you have to use the same settings to compare this hardware. I got 12711 3dmarks, then 12534. Here is the hardware info, I can sent the 3dmark file if someone wants it.
System Info Version: 2.2
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP
Processors: 2 x Intel Pentium® 4 @ 3.07 GHz
Graphics Card: RADEON X850 Series
Total Physical Memory: 1 GB
Free Physical Memory: 714.89 MB
Motherboard Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard Model: P4T533-C

I cant help it, I am a dick. Also, I have not been working on computers or playing with mine for a few years. Now that my house is done, I am messing around again, and I dont know all the new stuff. I am sure though, that the info I have been getting about intel cpu is bogus. People tell me to throw it away, it is junk, ect. I only got on this website to get some info and help some other folks that were worse off than me. I used to work with a bunch of AMD fanbois and I guess I still have memories of thier child like minds. Guess I did not need to say so much, but hey, look at the posts I was responding to. Some joker claims an X850 is too good for this mb and cpu is dead wrong. They are a perfect match. this thing still rocks and plays games in full res and full detail. It is only an AGP card and 4x agp slot, so I dont see what is so great about this almost 2 year old video card. It was much much much slower in my Dell by the way.

so your are saying that you got absolutly no fps gain from your move up to a 3.06? man sucks for you, just goes to show how crappy they are(obviousley im just kidding). i dont care i am not a fanboy, i only have the best price/performance parts because i do not have alot of money and im not spending 100 more on a cpu i can get for 100 less and have the same performance, ok. and withough benches from your p42.2 you have proved absolutly nothing to me except that these rants are getting to be retarted. and every cpu at some point in time was never a piece of junk. i know there are alot of amd fanboys on here that do not know what they are talking about, and you cannot clump in the entire base of amd fanboys as having childish minds, thats just retarted. and thats specifically why i requested hl2 benchmarks because often the cpu is way more utilized than the graphics card, not some dumbass 3dmarks which by the way is for gpus not cpus if you couldnt tell. and your cpu is bottlenecking your gpu(your 2.2p4) the 3.06 offcourse not as much.

first of all i don't understand why u use the term "amd fan boys". it's offending to some including me. i don't like intel but that does not give me the right to talk shit.

i still haven't understood what machine do u have. is it a 2,2ghz p4 or is that the oc-ed speed?

rimms are dead and burried like other stupid ideas from intel. that doesn't mean that they aren't working but thinking at the price they had those days it makes me laugh thinking at the performance gains.

ur system could be a bottleneck for the video card but not that much. x850xt is still a force even on a older computer and even on agp4x. it won't perform as good as it could but it still behave decent. it is rather an expensive card for the computer u have though. it's like putting gold on the door handle of an old car. it could look good in certain cases (though i doubt) but it still isn't better looking than a new car.

if u feel that ur p4 is so strong post some pcmark2002 scores and i'll post some duron 1,6@2ghz scores on dual channel ddr.

yeah i donno why i though that i guess i figured "old" then somehow got that...hmm what a waste of words.

hey hows the x1900xtx 512 going? how well does it OC and is it worth the $1800?

**i mean $600 sorry, wrong currency conversion