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Article #407Re: My Impressions - V3-2000 Overclocked
From: Machiavellian
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:00
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Hey, what about this registry file from Tripple Play 2000. I have NBA Live
99 but it will only reconized the Voodoo setup, nothing else.
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>Picked up the 2000 AGP out of curiosity (I love overclocking) and
>decided to clock it up to 3000 speed (166mhz). Installed it, driver
>install went okay, no problem.
>
>Before that though - Took a Pentium-sized fan (actually a ball-bearing
>fan off a Celeron heatsink) and secured it to the V3-2000 heatsink
>using a small rubber band thru the heatsink screw holes and the 2
>opposing holes near the V3 chip. Moved the PCI card in slot 1 down so
>there was room next to the V3-2000 for both the fan as well as added
>airflow.
>
>Then I downloaded the V3 Overclocker 1.3 from voodooextreme.com, put
>the speed at 166mhz, enabled the higher quality video for glide and
>D3D ("22bit"), and disabled VSync.
>
>So far, so good. Games are running fine at the higher clock speed, I
>replaced a V2 SLI and an ATI Rage 128 combo... I can indeed see a bit
>better quality in some games, actually the map board in the first
>minute of half life (after the intro) when you walk into Black Mesa,
>the map behind the security guard that says "Black Mesa Research
>Facility", that had a distinct new contrast/saturation to it. And
>elsewhere. Expendable looks near indistinguishable from when I played
>on the ATI.
>
>The only place I could see remnants of 16-bit dithering was in smoke
>effects.... play NFS3 in the rain, look at your opponents water
>spray/trails behind them - ugly dithering! But that's an extreme
>example.
>
>2D quality is as good at my Rage 128 card, if not better. Definite
>improvement over the TNT I tried at 1024 on my monitor.
>
>Overall a good finished product, easy install. Performance compared to
>my SLI rig is fine (doesn't blow it away or anything). Not a bad deal
>getting 3000 performance for the 2000 price. Note by the time you buy
>a fan/heatsink whatever to use on the 2000, you might as well have
>bought a 3000 for the 20 buck difference .... so if you want a value
>thru overclocking I suggest you do it with the 2000 only if you have
>some heatsinks lying around that you can use the fans off of.
>
>At least it'll last me until the end of the year when everyone's
>nex-gen part comes out.
>
>Side note NOT ALL BANSHEE FIXES work for the V3... EA games are the
>worst example of this.. if you have NFS3 retail (not V3-3000 pack-in)
>you need to get the registry file from Triple Play 2000 to get NFS3 to
>recognize your V3 in 3dsetup. Basically for any game that had
>problems recognizing the Banshee (esp. from EA) you will have similar
>problems. Most everything else is problem free but EA needs to get
>off their butts and make up a 3Dsetup program that can deal with newer
>cards... it's limited to whatever cards they put in the 3ddata file
>when the game comes out.
>
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