do these speeds look right for a 9600 pro???

[praetorian]

Well I decided to OC my Sapphire 9600Pro now and I've gotten to 500mhz on the core and 364.50 on the memory (729mhz DDR) and I'm getting about 13000 in 3DMark 2001

System specs:
XP2500+ oc'd to 2400Mhz (219x11) using 1.775v
Lanparty NF2 Ultra
512mb TwinMOS PC3200 (2-5-2-3-11 timings)

The system has only been up and running for about 2 or 3 days so I haven't gotten into the hardcore clocking. Did have it booting and working properly at 2.6ghz using 1.80v

How do those clock rates compared to others cause I'm personally not sure about them. Yeah I was never expecting to get 18000/19000 clocks that the 9700/9800Pros are getting but I think in someways that the score is a little low

[Austin]

500/729 is about right for a Rad9600PRO (average between 500/650 and 550/700) and gives a very sizable boost. 3Dmark2001 is a bit long in the tooth now, it was designed to push the GF3 (and later Rad8500) which are both far slower than the Rad9600PRO even before o/c'ing and obviously they also lack its wonderful DX9 and superb AA+AF. Anything over 10000marks is fantastic, to really see anything worth while (ie push your card) you should look to upping the res and adding AA+AF or look at other benchmarks (like 3Dmark2003 esp for DX9 cards).

It's good getting a Barton XP2500+ to 2.3ghz (2.2ghz + 400FSB = XP3200+) so if you are Prime stable at 2.4ghz (XP3500+?) that is amazingly good. I prefer to stay below 1.70v myself certainly for TbredB and Barton, but since they're pretty cheap now it doens't overly matter should you injure yours from overvolting.

TBH even a stock XP2500+ is capable of turning in fantastic gaming speeds IF coupled with the right gfx card ... so your benchmark results may seem a little low but you have to rem a Rad9700-9800 will own you even on a CPU @ 1.8ghz (XP2500+) ... but hey you are exceeding the speed of a £350 CPU (XP3200+) and your gfx card is near 9700 speeds but costs a good £100 less (certainly than the 9800 series). Nice system, will play everything very well for a good while to come.

PS. So 13000 is a good score and roughly where you should be.

[praetorian]

Thanx for your kind words Austin. I don't think that I have done too badly with this system considering that I have gone from an Athlon 1.4ghz (266mhz) on an Abit KT7-RAID to now this and this is my first proper attempt at overclocking with this kind of hardware.

I never expected to be able to get what I have gotten from this hardware. I'm looking forward to my days playing with this system especially now that everything is working properly and prime stable

I think that I will have to see if I can drop the VCore down to 1.7v and see what happens really Anyway glad to see that my scores are okay which is the main point of this thread

Edit: I tried it out with 3dMark2k3 and got just over 4000 marks for it which I thought was okay awell but the ORB was down so I couldn't compare