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Posted by Wild Card on Mon Apr 26th at 2:15am 2004

I just ran 3DMark on my PC to see how it would go. Well, I ended with a score of 40

Now I went a compared it with a machine almost identical to mine but he scored 227.

Here's the page. Can someone explain to me why Im so low. Its my first time using 3DMark so I dont know everything either.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=1779114

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Posted by diablo on Mon Apr 26th at 4:37am 2004

I just ran it and got a score of 2140 3DMarks.

It seems you didn't run many of the tests, my computer ran all of them. Plus your results weren't as good as mine.

GT1 - Wings of Fury 31.1 fps (yours)
GT1 - Wings of Fury 93.1 fps (mine)





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Posted by $loth on Mon Apr 26th at 6:38am 2004

hmmmm, its 178 meg eh? im pretty sure that i have it on cd some where, illl give you my results sometime this week. [addsig]



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Posted by scary_jeff on Mon Apr 26th at 8:55am 2004

3Dmark is pretty meaningless if you ask me. A lot of review sites have abandoned it as a benchmark because it's easy for ati/nvidia to tweak their drivers to give unrepresentative 3Dmark scores.



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Posted by Edge Damodred on Mon Apr 26th at 2:15pm 2004

Also it's not that great of a benchmarking program because it only takes the vid card into account now, proc. and memory are almost meaningless to the test. Also I've seen all the tests and most of them are unclear as to what they're testing. [addsig]



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Posted by Orpheus on Mon Apr 26th at 2:21pm 2004

it does however point out that wildcards PC is a mess of large and small parts

his card, and FSB are hurting him badly.. i assume because its a PCI card, and a duron processor..

his scores are askew because of the restrictions the smaller parts create.

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Posted by Wild Card on Mon Apr 26th at 2:21pm 2004

Is there a good benchmarking program out there then? [addsig]



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Posted by Leperous on Mon Apr 26th at 3:12pm 2004

Depends what you want to benchmark exactly, the only thing you'll get out of it is how your PC rates against others at doing different things, like running Quake 3 or big Excel spreadsheets or lots of background programs at once.



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Posted by Wild Card on Mon Apr 26th at 6:42pm 2004

? posted by Orpheus

it does however point out that wildcards PC is a mess of large and small parts

his card, and FSB are hurting him badly.. i assume because its a PCI card, and a duron processor..

his scores are askew because of the restrictions the smaller parts create.

Actually Orph, I upgraded remember. I got a Athlon XP 2500+ and a second stick of 256ram.

The main differences between his specs and mine are:

  • His card is AGP, mine is PCI
  • He has nVidia drivers 52.XX I have 45.XX
  • My clocks are 300Mhz GPU and 400mem, his are default 250 and 333

    Here are my PC specs now:

    ? quote:
    Chenming 601AE black w/ front USB2.0 and firewire (3 80mm case fans)
    AMD Athlon XP 2500+ BARTON BOXED 333FSB
    Crucial 256mb DDR PC2700 (333Mhz)
    Crucial 256mb DDR PC2700 (333Mhz)
    Abit NF7-S Nforce2 SATA Raid 1394
    Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80gig 7200rpm 8mb cache SATA
    Jayton GeForce4 MX440 64mb DDR w/TV out PCI
    LG 52x24x52x16x CD-RW/DVD combo
    Tricolor LED 80mm case fan in side window

    Dell Trinitron 17" flat screen CRT
    Thrustmaster Fox2 Pro
    Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical
    Generic keyboard
    Creative 46.6K modem
    Generic 300Watt PSU

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     Re: 3DMark test results
    Posted by beer hunter on Mon Apr 26th at 7:27pm 2004

    ? quote:
    Is there a good benchmarking program out there then?


    Try Aquamark 3 http://arc.aquamark3.com/, its ok for seeing what affect different setups have but its another benchy thats slanted towards graphics. It should be a bit more useful as it gives CPU scores unlike 3dmark when it can't run all tests.

    imo the PCI graphics card is the biggest bottleneck in your system, you could try tweaking the Display Properties to get a few more fps -

    Set Image Settings to High Performance
    Set AntiAliasing to Off
    Set Anisotropic Filtering to Off

    Its worthwhile setting the last 2 off anyway as the MX hasnt got the processing power to get decent fps's with them on.

    Time to start saving for a new card



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     Re: 3DMark test results
    Posted by Wild Card on Mon Apr 26th at 9:17pm 2004

    ? posted by beer hunter
    Time to start saving for a new card

    Damn lol I just got it in September too. Cost me 100$ CDN at that too.

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    Posted by Orpheus on Mon Apr 26th at 9:23pm 2004

    ? posted by beer hunter
    Try Aquamark 3 http://arc.aquamark3.com/, its ok for seeing what affect different setups have but its another benchy thats slanted towards graphics. It should be a bit more useful as it gives CPU scores unlike 3dmark when it can't run all tests.

    i'd like to try, but all the download links are broken

    [edit] found a working download here

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    Posted by Orpheus on Mon Apr 26th at 11:10pm 2004

    caution large image

    this is mt test results..

    personally, i would really like to see a machine capable of running this test at a reasonable FPS.. mine ranged from 35ish, down to 3 .. with the averages you see :/

    the graphics were simply

    [edit] caution a second impressive screenshot..

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    Posted by scary_jeff on Mon Apr 26th at 11:27pm 2004

    Look here Orph. The latest nvidia card does 50% better than anything on that chart to



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    Posted by Orpheus on Mon Apr 26th at 11:30pm 2004

    true, sadly i chose a bargain basement 9000 card, but, what i find impressive is they chose the exact same screen shot i did..

    i have never seen this bench before today.. and i took my own screens..

    still Jeff.. many of those cards cost 4 times what mine did

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    Posted by scary_jeff on Mon Apr 26th at 11:38pm 2004

    Hah, that thing with the screenshots is almost spooky! Out of the whole demo you both choose almost the exact same image to capture!

    Only 4 times the cost? A few of them are over $400 No need to be sad about it though, I'm still using a Geforce2 GTS



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    Posted by Orpheus on Mon Apr 26th at 11:45pm 2004

    look at the second screenshot.. it would make a great map all by itself..

    if HL2 has a terrain editor with it when released, i foresee some impressive maps.. perhaps..

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    Posted by Juim on Tue Apr 27th at 12:12pm 2004

    my aquamqrk results:

    Public Measurement:
    DATE: 2004-04-27 14:08:54
    CPU: Pentium(R) 4 processor , HT:On CR: 2793 MHz SRAM: 1023 MB OS: Microsoft Windows XP
    GFX: ALL-IN-WONDER 9700 SERIES CM: 324 / 311 MHz VRAM: 128 MB DRIVER: 6.14.10.6436
    # 1 AquaMark Score: 35380 (CPU: 6940, GFX: 4749) FPS: 35.38 TPS: 10649 K
    RES: 1024x768 x 32bit AA: Off AF: 4x DETAILS: Very High





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    Posted by Orpheus on Tue Apr 27th at 12:19pm 2004

    very sweet score there juim.. beats my socks off

    makes me wonder, as good as this machine plays, how much better yours actually does

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    Posted by Gorbachev on Tue Apr 27th at 8:07pm 2004

    ? posted by Wild Card
    ? posted by Orpheus

    it does however point out that wildcards PC is a mess of large and small parts

    his card, and FSB are hurting him badly.. i assume because its a PCI card, and a duron processor..

    his scores are askew because of the restrictions the smaller parts create.

    Actually Orph, I upgraded remember. I got a Athlon XP 2500+ and a second stick of 256ram.

    The main differences between his specs and mine are:

  • His card is AGP, mine is PCI
  • He has nVidia drivers 52.XX I have 45.XX
  • My clocks are 300Mhz GPU and 400mem, his are default 250 and 333

    Here are my PC specs now:

    ? quote:
    Chenming 601AE black w/ front USB2.0 and firewire (3 80mm case fans)
    AMD Athlon XP 2500+ BARTON BOXED 333FSB
    Crucial 256mb DDR PC2700 (333Mhz)
    Crucial 256mb DDR PC2700 (333Mhz)
    Abit NF7-S Nforce2 SATA Raid 1394
    Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80gig 7200rpm 8mb cache SATA
    Jayton GeForce4 MX440 64mb DDR w/TV out PCI
    LG 52x24x52x16x CD-RW/DVD combo
    Tricolor LED 80mm case fan in side window

    Dell Trinitron 17" flat screen CRT
    Thrustmaster Fox2 Pro
    Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical
    Generic keyboard
    Creative 46.6K modem
    Generic 300Watt PSU

    • For game performance you don't necessarily want the newest drivers anyway. I use 30.81s or so. If I try any newer ones my game fps goes from 80-100 to around 4-15.

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