Savage4:
Decent card or lame POS?

My benchbox of doom:

Abit BH6 1.0 (100MHz)
Celeron 300A/450
128MB Generic RAM
Stealth III S540 - 32MB AGP
Maxtor DiamondMax 6800 Plus 27.3 GB
Sound Blaster 16 ISA
3Com 3c905c
Generic 8x DVD
Lots of games and porn

Summary:

The 8.20.06 Reference driver failed to run the 32MB Texture Rendering Test.  3DMark2000 would not allow me to see the scores for 8MB or 16MB because it crashed.  All of the drivers had bad flickering, vsync on or off.

As you can see, the numbers are about the same for all drivers; I would use BiPolar's 1.15a build because he has tested his drivers for speed and stability.  My guess is that either I need a faster CPU for the card (ya right:) or the drivers have hit the cap for a Savage4.  I couldn't find any, but can anyone tell me what the original theoretical performance numbers that S3 published were for the chip?

-zorrak

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