Here they be!

[Mortar]

I have a:<BR><BR>AthlonXP 1800+ (1.54Ghz)<BR>Asus A7A266 Mobo<BR>512Mb of DDR (dunno what kind, got it at a comp. show real cheap)<BR>Xtasy GeForce 4 TI 4600<BR>Creative Audigy X-Gamer<BR>16x NEC DVD-ROM<BR>24x10x40 Plexwriter CD-RW<BR>Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet Adapter<BR>Western Digital 80gig 7200rpm HD<BR>Maxtor 40gig 7200rpm HD<BR>Antec TruePower 330w Power supply<BR>Generic "Alpha" ATX case<BR>Acer AcerView 76e 19" monitor<BR>Windows XP Home Edition<BR><BR>Colin, keep on posting XP tweaks! They've all helped! ... So far! lol

[GNXtreme]

Welcome to the Stats mang....

[Mortar]

Hey, thanks! So, tell me... what's the best way to get your performance up? If there's more than one.... bring it on! lol<BR><BR>My computer now scores 6689 points on the 3dmark 2001 SE benchmark. I need more! MORE! lol.

[Iceman]

6689 in 3D Mark seems a little low on a Ti4600 unless you have it running at a high resoultion, frequency and have 4x anti-alaising. Try overclocking your graphics card - not that a Ti4600 needs to be overclocked

[GNXtreme]

My Ti4200 comes in stock with a 3DMark of over 8800.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yours sounds way low.&nbsp; I have been able to get 9000 overclocked to 300/540, which I think is lower than the Ti 4600 stock.

[Mortar]

Yeah, I just upgraded to Windows XP Home edition and it seems to run the system quicker, but the benchmarks got a good bit lower. I had two benchmarks before XP... one under 98SE and that was a 9964. The second one was under ME and it went down to 8860. I've done two benchmarks under XP and the 1st one was the 6689.... the second one was 2384. Not good at all. The only difference between the two XP tests was that I installed Tweak XP v1.33 and used that to, what it called, "optimize the CPU, memory, and cache. I didn't tell it to do anything to the videocard because I felt it was good where it was... for now...

[GNXtreme]

Try to set the L2 cache in the regedit.&nbsp; The instrucions are in Colin's tips.&nbsp; Is your AGP slot adjustable? (2x,4x)&nbsp; What is it set at in your BIOS.

[Mortar]

I have set my L2 cache according to what Colin has said and that did speed it up a lot, but I just did a benchmark after reverting to before Iinstalled TweakXP and it just did a 6608 that time.... I dunno what's the problem... I didn't check the AGP setting yet, but I'm almost certian that it's set to 4x.... that's just another thing to check on.<BR><BR>I'm thankful you guys are willing to give me ideas to fuel my need for speed.<BR><BR>Keep 'em commin'! lol

[GNXtreme]

Are you sue you have a 4600?.....lol

[Mortar]

$400 worth of sure!