3DMark test results

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

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

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. :razz:

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

<!-- ZoneLabs Popup Blocking Insertion -->hmmmm, its 178 meg eh? im pretty sure that i have it on cd some where, illl give you my results sometime this week.

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.

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.

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

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.

Is there a good benchmarking program out there then?

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.

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

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:

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

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 :smile:

beer hunter said:
Time to start saving for a new card :smile:

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

beer hunter said:
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 :sad:

[edit] found a working download here

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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 :sad: .. with the averages you see :/

the graphics were simply

[edit] caution a second impressive screenshot..

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

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 :sad:

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 :smile: No need to be sad about it though, I'm still using a Geforce2 GTS :biggrin:

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..

my aquamqrk results:

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very sweet score there juim.. beats my socks off :smile:

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

Wild Card said:

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

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:

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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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.

Really? wow lol thats kinda sucky sucky.

Well, I just finished painting my monitor and my mouse in black using Krypton (or Kryton ) flat black spray paint. Anyways, now that the headache is gone (yes I painted in my basement... not a good idea DONT DO THAT :biggrin: ) Its looking dead sexy. The monitor is a Dell 2001 Trinitron and the mouse is Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical. I painted the white shell and buttons black, the grey parts remain grey.

As for other peoples concerns about getting shocked opening the monitor, Dell nicely covered everything with a grounded aluminum cover. Sad part is, I broke the clip for the power button, so now Im using a nail to turn it on.

And my friend got me a blue cathode light too since it was his last day doing co-op. So my computer looks better anyways, and it only cost me 4.99$ CDN for the spray paint, the CCFL was free.

The next thing on the "upgrade" list is a new video card, but since mine is "good" in my eyes, I wont be upgrading for a while. Especially since I dont have any money.

Wild Card said:
black spray paint. Anyways, now that the headache is gone (yes I painted in my basement... not a good idea DONT DO THAT :biggrin: )

I'm pretty sure on the back of the can in big letters it will say "use in a well ventilated area" :razz: reading safety instructions is for your good as well as the companys lawsuit protection :wink:

plus, any photos?

Gwil said:

Wild Card said:
black spray paint. Anyways, now that the headache is gone (yes I painted in my basement... not a good idea DONT DO THAT :biggrin: )

I'm pretty sure on the back of the can in big letters it will say "use in a well ventilated area" :razz: reading safety instructions is for your good as well as the companys lawsuit protection :wink:

plus, any photos?

Yea it does. But me being me I wasent too bright and thought the size of the basement was enough to disapate the odor. Its only after the headache I decided to open the window.

As for photos, I cant provide any at the moment, my dad put the camera in a "safe location" IE: He lost it somewhere in the house.

Wild Card said:
As for photos, I cant provide any at the moment, my dad put the camera in a "safe location" IE: He lost it somewhere in the house.