Overclocking question?

I have a Celeron 266 overclocked to 400. I am running an ABIT BX6 motherboard, 64 megs of PC100 ram, UDMA harddrive, and 2 voodoo 2's. My system does not seem to be able to run GPL at the framerate others say they do. At 800X600 at the south africa track my framerate is 18 at start and only sometimes reaches 36 but mostly around 28 to 30. I am only running with 14 other AI and have just track and cars in mirrors. The detail slider is in the middle and number of sounds is 4. All other graphics are on. My question is how are you other celeron overclocking duds and dudets getting solid 36 FPS? Any special SET commands for voodoo 2's? I have the latest drivers for voodoos from diamonds site. Just asking John

I would say the most likely reason is that the Celeron 266 has no L2 cache. Since you already have a good MB, your best bet would be to pick up a 300A Celeron. They can be had for around $100 these days. Dan. >I have a Celeron 266 overclocked to 400. I am running an ABIT BX6 >Just asking >John

If you have the Celeron 266 that means you have no L2 cache. I'm no expert, but that might be enough to give the performance hit. Celeron 300As have 128kb of integrated L2 cache. Zog

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> I have a Celeron 266 overclocked to 400. I am running an ABIT BX6 > motherboard, 64 megs of PC100 ram, UDMA harddrive, and 2 voodoo 2's. My > system does not seem to be able to run GPL at the framerate others say they > do. At 800X600 at the south africa track my framerate is 18 at start and > only sometimes reaches 36 but mostly around 28 to 30. I am only running with > 14 other AI and have just track and cars in mirrors. The detail slider is in > the middle and number of sounds is 4. All other graphics are on. My question > is how are you other celeron overclocking duds and dudets getting solid 36 > FPS? Any special SET commands for voodoo 2's? I have the latest drivers > for voodoos from diamonds site. > Just asking > John

Replace the 266 with a 300A. The 266 has no cache. Bart Westra >I have a Celeron 266 overclocked to 400. I am running an ABIT BX6 >motherboard, 64 megs of PC100 ram, UDMA harddrive, and 2 voodoo 2's. My >system does not seem to be able to run GPL at the framerate others say they >do. At 800X600 at the south africa track my framerate is 18 at start and >only sometimes reaches 36 but mostly around 28 to 30. I am only running with >14 other AI and have just track and cars in mirrors. The detail slider is in >the middle and number of sounds is 4. All other graphics are on. My question >is how are you other celeron overclocking duds and dudets getting solid 36 >FPS? Any special SET commands for voodoo 2's? I have the latest drivers >for voodoos from diamonds site. >Just asking >John

hmmm, running a 300a in a bx6 mobo at 374 with a thriller 8 meg video at 800-600 and with a full field of ai and graphics set as yours I get 25 on the grid and 36 from the first turn on. from what I've read at 400 your voodoo's should be faster. dx6 btw. perhaps you should post this at the apex Gman

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> I have a Celeron 266 overclocked to 400. I am running an ABIT BX6 > motherboard, 64 megs of PC100 ram, UDMA harddrive, and 2 voodoo 2's. My > system does not seem to be able to run GPL at the framerate others say they > do. At 800X600 at the south africa track my framerate is 18 at start and > only sometimes reaches 36 but mostly around 28 to 30. I am only running with > 14 other AI and have just track and cars in mirrors. The detail slider is in > the middle and number of sounds is 4. All other graphics are on. My question > is how are you other celeron overclocking duds and dudets getting solid 36 > FPS? Any special SET commands for voodoo 2's? I have the latest drivers > for voodoos from diamonds site. > Just asking > John

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Are those Retail box or OEM CPU's? I recently bought a 300A (retail box with fan included) for $118. Dave

My best guess is that they say GPL hits on the L2 cache pretty hard, and your C266 doesn't have any. :( A lot of the Celeron folks are using the C300A now, which has 128K of L2 cache that runs at full processor speed. There are some Voodoo tweaks, I'll let the Voodoo gurus respond to that (I'm a Rendition kinda guy). "But in a way, fear is a big part of racing, because if there was nothing to be frightened of, and no limit, any fool could get into a motor car and racing would not exist as a sport." -- Jim Clark

<<(I'm a Rendition kinda guy).>> How DARE you !!!!!! hehehehe T

300A, ABit BH6 here. Have you tried turning off any grapics options? I generally run with spectacular highlights and bevelled tyres OFF, especially for on line racing. You should see a significant increase in framerate for minimal loss, tha is if you can't afford a new chip like everyone else wants you to get!!