Quick Question

[Nirad9er]

My brother and I have pretty much the exact same setups (see sig) but the only difference is he had gotten a new hard drive due to hard drive failure. He has a 200gb sata 2.0 7200 8mb. He also has 1gb of pc3200 (2 x 512) and I have 2gb (4 x 512) of pc3200. My question is, he almost gets as high as me in 3dmark05 with his cpu clocked at 2.4 at the moment and mine clocked at 2.7 and both our cards flashed to 700/800. He got almost 9900 with those clocks and I get 10000. Could my memory not be running in dual channel. Could his sata 2.0 hard drive be affecting the higher speed? How do i verify if my memory is running in dual channel. Are they are tweaks I should be aware of? How could there only be like 100 point different when I have more memory and 300 mhz clock higher at the moment.?

thanks

 

[Jelic]

4x 512mb ram is BAD... even if it's two gigs it'll run at a 2t command rate which will make your computer slower, also I'm guessing you're using a divider for your ram so I'm sure that'll effect it as well. Also his timings may be tighter than yours for ram, which would contribute to the difference...

 

[VulturEMaN]

My first sata2 hdd screamed compared to my old sata and ide drives. In my opinion, you should get 2 of the sata2 hdds and run them in raid 0. That should waste your brother's score

i.e. you could do 2 40gigs (like 50$ each) and just use it for games and other essentials