The official HWBOT OC Challenge June 2011 thread.

[Jerre]

back on topic: is there anybody with experience using a Soyo 5EHM mainboard and K6-2 400 Cpu? Also: does PCMark 2004 takes graphics much in consideration to calculate the final score? e.g.: instead of using my trustworthy Geforce mx2 i could use something more powerfull.

[Turrican]

only the last 2 tests take use of the graphics card.

hmm, i think a k6-x cpu is to weak to take an advantage of a stronger card than your geforce 2 mx.

[Jerre]

Damn, i was thinking using a 7600GT OC't to 640 Mhz

[Luebke]

oh good, my k6-166 doesn´t have any agp-slot. maybe my gf2 pci is good enough

[Turrican]

Damn, i was thinking using a 7600GT OC't to 640 Mhz

 

i don't think the agp8x 7600gt would fit into your agp2x board. the "cut" on the card is on the different side as on the board.

[Christian Ney]

My best AGP card that can fit in a AGP2x slot is a GF FX 5600

[Jerre]

I think i have something like that, and a Radeon 9200. Perhaps that i'll install the pc tonight

[Luebke]

a fx5600 for agp 2x?

i have a gf4 mx440, that is allready agp 8x!

[Turrican]

a fx5600 for agp 2x?

i have a gf4 mx440, that is allready agp 8x!

some agp cards are backwards compatible, but not all.

[Luebke]

is there a way to find out, wich card is backwards compatible and wich is not except google for each card?

[Christian Ney]

All AGP4x cards will fit in

[Luebke]

will fit or will work?

is agp 2x compatible to agp 4/8x or to agp 1x?

Edited June 6, 2011 by Luebke

[I.nfraR.ed]

 

will fit or will work?

is agp 2x compatible to agp 4/8x oder to agp 1x?

 

If 8x/4x card fits in 2x slot it will work, because it's designed to be universal.

 

From my agp cards: FX5900Ultra and Radeon 9800Pro should work, 9550, 3850 and X1950GT - not. But I don't have K6 platform.

Edited June 6, 2011 by I.nfraR.ed

[Luebke]

thx

that´s usefull

[Jerre]

the mx2 is dead, enter the voodoo3 3500 , the K6-2 managed to post at 500 Mhz instead of 400 :-). Searching for that Nvidia FX card. But where did i put it...

Edited June 7, 2011 by Jerre

[Luebke]

good work

[Jerre]

which of the two settings should be faster:

5.5x multi x 100 Mhz FSB (550 Mhz CPU-speed), with memory set at 100 Mhz.

4.5x multi x 112 Mhz FSB (504 Mhz CPU-speed), memory set at 112 Mhz.

[Luebke]

i guess the first one, cpu-speed might be more important than ram-speed.

but why don´t you try both settings? it´s the best way to find it out

[Dan Jacques]

I had a really big problem running PCMark04 on dual-cores. The Multithread Test 3 failed on Grammar Check, and no give me a score, only running at "single core mode", and it naturally down my score dramatically. What the solution for this problem? Affinity? Dark spell? lol

[Massman]

Affinity, yes.

[saint19]

I had a really big problem running PCMark04 on dual-cores. The Multithread Test 3 failed on Grammar Check, and no give me a score, only running at "single core mode", and it naturally down my score dramatically. What the solution for this problem? Affinity? Dark spell? lol

 

http://www.futuremark.com/support/pcmark04/

 

I think that is affinity or you haven't installed WME 9.

[Rasparthe]

grammar sucks - wait until you try and try and run ATI cards...everyone I have had so far as caused me problems.

 

Since Opty won't spill the beans I'll let you in on the secret so you can catch him. Register your PCmark04 and simply run Grammar Check first by itself (its under CPU tests) and then run the regular System Suite and it should work.

 

Or you could use a program that changes your affinity based on time clock. You would have to time it to get it to run in sync with the Grammar check test and it would automatically switch the affinity between single and dual core for you. Haven't tested to see if this is actually practical though.

 

Good luck!

Edited June 10, 2011 by Rasparthe
Added more info

[NoMS]

I got a problem to run PCMark04 on Win 7, look this:

 

 

WME9 installed and is OK, the problem is just with WMP...

Any suggestion?

[saint19]

I got a problem to run PCMark04 on Win 7, look this:

 

 

WME9 installed and is OK, the problem is just with WMP...

Any suggestion?

 

Q: PCMark04 reports that I need Windows Media Player/Encoder 9 even if I already have Windows Media Player 10 installed.

A: PCMark04 works correctly with MediaPlayer 10, but you'll still need to separately download and install Windows Media Encoder 9 as version 9 is the latest Windows Media Encoder available. You may see a notification about this even if you have Media Player 9 or later and Media Encoder 9 installed. PCMark04 will work correctly despite the message during installation

 

http://www.futuremark.com/support/pcmark04/

 

In other words, ignore the message and run the benchmark.

[Dan Jacques]

I got a problem to run PCMark04 on Win 7, look this:

 

 

WME9 installed and is OK, the problem is just with WMP...

Any suggestion?

 

http://www.futuremark.com/support/pcmark04/

 

In other words, ignore the message and run the benchmark.

Works fine for me, brother. See the attachment. Try to run it.

 

grammar sucks - wait until you try and try and run ATI cards...everyone I have had so far as caused me problems.

 

Since Opty won't spill the beans I'll let you in on the secret so you can catch him. Register your PCmark04 and simply run Grammar Check first by itself (its under CPU tests) and then run the regular System Suite and it should work.

 

Or you could use a program that changes your affinity based on time clock. You would have to time it to get it to run in sync with the Grammar check test and it would automatically switch the affinity between single and dual core for you. Haven't tested to see if this is actually practical though.

 

Good luck!

Thanks a lot! I'll do it. X2 4200+ challenge will continue . With my pretty zoombies HDDs lol

 

As my brother says: "I loev it".