What am I doing wrong?

[kmccullough]

Hey all,
Havin kind of a problem (or maybe not) with my system...
I'm running a P4 2.4 on an MSI 865PE Neo 2 board with a Radeon 9800 SE and 2 sticks of Corsair 512XMSPC-3200. My problem is that I cant get the Quake 3 timedemo to run faster than 7 seconds, and when I run Aquamark 3 I only score around 23,000.
That's at the factory clock settings...I've tried to oc with powerstrip, radeonator, and radclock but when I do there is literally NO change. My friend has almost the exact same system but he has a couple sticks of xmspc-4000 and a 9800 pro and he runs the demo in 4 sec and scores about a 45,000 on aquamark. Is this normal? Or am I overlooking something? Any help would be appreciated.....

[Mike2010]

There's a pretty big difference between your 9800SE and his 9800 Pro, that's probably why he is scoring better than you.

[kmccullough]

If you go to ATI's website on the product comparison the only difference between the two cards is clock speeds. Would the clock speeds on the card make that much a difference?

[Wiggo]

Yes the clock speeds do make a difference and to overclock you raise these speeds more to increase performance.

[kmccullough]

Kewl....is there any tried and true oc software out there because when I try and use powerstrip radeonator or radclock even when Im on the brink of instability, which is around 315 mem, I dont see any difference at all. Is the software not working or am i doing it all wrong?

[Wiggo]

Ya'd need to run a benchmark to see how much more ya gettin' as ya eyes will likely not notice any difference.

[kmccullough]

my aquamark score stays around 23,000 even when i oc my card....by the way thanks for the help

[Mike2010]

Also don't forget that the 9800SE only has 4 pipelines and a 128 bit memory interface while the 9800 Pro has 8 pipelines and a 256-bit memory interface. Those make a huge difference...

[kmccullough]

Yea....I heard that from somewhere....but i forget where. Oh well, that explains alot and I guess be selling my card on the pound and buying a pro ;) Thanks for the help guys!