I will have to reinstall WinXP soon, time for a system cleanout, and was
wondering what the best performing Catalyst release for this card was.
Am running an ASUS P4T533 and have the newer ATI CD with MMC 8.xx. TIA

Matt wrote:
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> I will have to reinstall WinXP soon, time for a system cleanout, and was
> wondering what the best performing Catalyst release for this card was.
> Am running an ASUS P4T533 and have the newer ATI CD with MMC 8.xx. TIA

I'm running the 3.7 cats and MMC 8.5, with no problems

Gordon

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> I'm running the 3.7 cats and MMC 8.5, with no problems
>
> Gordon


Thanks, Gordon. Right now I'm running 3.4 with 8.5 and was thinking of
using a newer set of drivers/MMC when I reinstall XP but I thought that the
latest Cat releases were aimed more toward the 9xxx series of cards and that
there might be a speed or compatibility advantage by using an older set.
Thoughts?

Matt wrote:
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> "Gordon Scott" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > I'm running the 3.7 cats and MMC 8.5, with no problems
> >
> > Gordon
>
> Thanks, Gordon. Right now I'm running 3.4 with 8.5 and was thinking of
> using a newer set of drivers/MMC when I reinstall XP but I thought that the
> latest Cat releases were aimed more toward the 9xxx series of cards and that
> there might be a speed or compatibility advantage by using an older set.
> Thoughts?

well,
every system is unique, so what might work for you might not for me.
that said, I stuck with the 2.x cats for the longest time, then tried a
few 3.x's
I installed the 3.8's the other day as well, Im not spending all my life
benchmarking, but i'm happy overall.
My last 3Dmark2001 was 8879 o/c 180x12.5
I use rage3d VPU clocked at core:250 memory:208

Windows XP Pro SP1
Asus A7N8X-DX w/s-ATA Raid/1394/USB2.0 Dual Mode DDR
Enermax 365 FCA
AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 333fsb 170x12.5
2x256 Hynix PC3200 DDR Ram
ATI AIW Radeon 8500DV 64meg DDR
Soundblaster Audigy
2 X Maxtor D740X 6L060L3 7200rpm ATA/133
Yamaha 3200EV 24x10x40 CD-R/RW
Asus 16X DVD
Lian-Li PC-60U
Altec Lansing ACS56 spkrs

"Gordon Scott" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> well,
> every system is unique, so what might work for you might not for me.
> that said, I stuck with the 2.x cats for the longest time, then tried a
> few 3.x's
> I installed the 3.8's the other day as well, Im not spending all my life
> benchmarking, but i'm happy overall.
> My last 3Dmark2001 was 8879 o/c 180x12.5
> I use rage3d VPU clocked at core:250 memory:208
>
> Windows XP Pro SP1
> Asus A7N8X-DX w/s-ATA Raid/1394/USB2.0 Dual Mode DDR
> Enermax 365 FCA
> AMD Athlon XP 2600+ 333fsb 170x12.5
> 2x256 Hynix PC3200 DDR Ram
> ATI AIW Radeon 8500DV 64meg DDR
> Soundblaster Audigy
> 2 X Maxtor D740X 6L060L3 7200rpm ATA/133
> Yamaha 3200EV 24x10x40 CD-R/RW
> Asus 16X DVD
> Lian-Li PC-60U
> Altec Lansing ACS56 spkrs

Using 3dmark 2001SE and Radeonator( which I like because it is so simple and
easy to bypass) O/C to 275/205, I get 8986 on CAT 3.4.
I think the 128M version of the Radeon 8500 runs 275/275, correct me if I am
wrong, so you can safely run it that high. If you have no stability or other
issues with 3.8, that's good news. I hate reinstalling ATI drivers because
so much can go wrong ;o)


ASUS P4T-533R
Intel P4 2.4B 533Mhz
Lian-Li PC-70
Forced-External-Air to CPU Cooling via ductwork 33c -45c
512M Samsung 32-Bit Rimm 4200 1066Mhz RAMBUS
ANTEC TRUE 430 PSU
ATI All-In-Wonder 8500DV 64M
SoundBlaster Live!
Cambridge 2+1 spkrs
Pioneer DVR-105 DVD-RW
Toshiba 16X DVD-ROM SD-M 1502
LiteOn LTR-48246s 48x24x48 CD-RW
RAID 0 IBM 40G 60GXP (boot) using on-board Promise controller + 60G IBM
120GXP as a slave
RAID 1 using (2) 80G Maxtor 6Y080P0 on Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A pci card
D-Link DFE530TX+ NIC
WinXP Pro SP1