Re: K8V-MX drivers ?
- From: nospam@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul)
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:08:59 GMT
In article <a4hut1dkbcardkfubuq0srh7hmait95r82@xxxxxxx>, Shadow <sh@dow> wrote:
> Upgraded my TX97-E (still perfect) to this piece of apparent sh*&^&*t.
> Sound does not work with most of my games, video gives me
> blank windows if power down happens.
> Diablo 2 is slower than with an old duron board I had (video
> issue ?). Heroes of Might and Magic 4 ditto.
> Quake 3 works fine ? Is that a lead ?
> Have latest ASUS drivers and bios. Sempron 2600 cpu.
> Win98SE
> Any ideas ?
>
> PS ... is my voodoo 3 pci 16MB inherently faster than the
> onboard SIS chipset ?
The fastest Durons were the Model 8 ones, at 1400, 1600, and
1800MHz. The Sempron 2600+ runs at 1600MHz and has pretty close
to the same amount of cache. The Sempron 2600+ will have
superior memory bandwidth. But if you put your mind to it,
a badly written application might perform as badly on both
platforms. (Try a copy of SuperPI or one of the other CPU
benchmarks, if you really want to see that the new platform
is faster.)
For graphics, remember that games support multiple render
paths. If you have support in hardware for shaders, perhaps
the shaders are being used. If you had a video card with
simpler hardware, some games would simply refuse to run,
while others might render all effects with the CPU. It is
pretty hard to draw conclusions about system performance
due to stuff like that, as you don't know what render path
and level of sophistication is being used. Maybe the visual
appearance of the slow games is better ?
You cannot really expect to game with built-in graphics:
Integrated UniChrome Pro IGP
- Dual pixel pipelines
- 128-bit 2D/3D engine
- 200MHz engine clock speed
- 16-64MB shared memory <--- slow texture memory
Some Voodoo 3 cards had 200MHz core clock. And the
memory used for rendering is right on the card. The
bandwidth to the GPU for sending commands is poor
(as it is just a PCI bus), but the core of the card
would be solid. The UniChrome would have good bandwidth
to get commands to it, but the shared memory would
hold it back.
You'll really need some kind of video card, if you
expect an improvement. UniChrome is more intended for
office applications, email, and web surfing, than
gaming.
Generations of graphics cards have overlapped with one
another, when it comes to clocks. You can see how some
new low end cards are not really superior to some of the
high end older cards. So don't buy a video card based
on the model number having more zeros on the end.
http://web.archive.org/web/20050305080648/http://www.benchmark.pl/artykuly/zestawienie_GPU_2/skala_wydajnosci.html
You can get lots of video card benchmarks from here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/site/vgacharts/index.html
It is hard to find benchmarks comparing integrated
graphics to real video cards, and these only hint
at how far down on the charts that build-in graphics
sit.
"Integrated Graphics Showdown"
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1810823,00.asp
"Integrated Graphics: Xpress 200 vs. GMA 950"
http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2427&p=4
Paul
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