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Jan 14^th, 2004 at 5:53pm

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I was wondering whether this would be a good idea..... What does your system score in 3DMark03? Remember to post your system stats too.....

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Reply #1 - Jan 14^th, 2004 at 9:41pm

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6050 system stats right below in my sig

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Reply #2 - Jan 15^th, 2004 at 2:41am

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My score was,

1208

AMD Athlon XP 2000+ @ 1672MHz
XpertVision Geforce FX5600 (on 4x AGP)
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512mb PC2100 DDR-SDRAM
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Reply #3 - Jan 15^th, 2004 at 5:38am

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I'd post mine, but buy the time I get the 178mb download of 3dmark '03 on my dialup, we could all be dead!

anyway it's always around 12,000 in 3dmark 2001 at stock clocking and blended driver settings at 1024x768x32 res, antialiasing off. Driver: Detonator 43.51 (an oldy but a goodie)(the latest driver scores only 10,000 on my rig!)

xp2600+ on nForce2 chipset, 1024mb PC2700 (faster than 3200 on this machine) GF4 TI4200 128mb, 8x AGP

Mainboard: Asus P5K-Premium, CPU=Intel E6850 @ x8x450fsb 3.6ghz, RAM: 4gb PC8500 Team Dark, Video: NV8800GT, HDD: 2x1Tb Samsung F3 RAID-0 + 1Tb F3, PSU: Antec 550 Basiq, OS: Win7x64, Display: 24" WS LCD

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Reply #4 - Jan 15^th, 2004 at 7:18am

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I have downloaded 3DMark01 but when I run it it complains about not having DirectX8. Can't it run with DirectX9?

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Reply #5 - Jan 15^th, 2004 at 4:35pm

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oh yeah forgot to mention, when i ran that benchmark, I had my CPU underclocked... it was giving me problems, i am still very pleased with that score

Still have a nice PC but I just switched to a hella nice mac

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Reply #6 - Jan 15^th, 2004 at 4:50pm

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So is 1208 a decent score? And what would you expect from the specs below?

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Reply #7 - Jan 15^th, 2004 at 5:36pm

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1208 isnt that great, but good for what the specs are...
I would expect somethin around a 6000 from the specs in your sig

Still have a nice PC but I just switched to a hella nice mac

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Reply #8 - Jan 16^th, 2004 at 10:57pm

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Swanny...keep in mind it says....

"Coming This Week!"

Grin

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Reply #9 - Jan 17^th, 2004 at 3:22am

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"Coming This Week!"

Well thats the biggest Joke I've ever heard...... Sad

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Reply #10 - Jan 17^th, 2004 at 4:02pm

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hasnt come yet then... has it

Still have a nice PC but I just switched to a hella nice mac

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Reply #11 - Jan 17^th, 2004 at 4:49pm

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"Coming This Week!"

Well thats the biggest Joke I've ever heard...... Sad

so sorry to hear that Roll Eyes

When is it expected?

I am somwhere I don't know where I am!!!&&

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Reply #12 - Jan 17^th, 2004 at 4:56pm

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2019 in 3D Mark 2003 , 8700 average in 2001 SE ! - No different from my old p4 1.8, 400fsb mobo etc..... ???

My benchmark scores tell me I need a new Graphics card, my "real world" use, tells me something quite different - the two machines are world apart, despite an almost exact same score.

I remain to be convinced!

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Reply #13 - Jan 17^th, 2004 at 7:23pm

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"Coming This Week!"

Well thats the biggest Joke I've ever heard...... Sad

Did I offend you?

err...

Tongue

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Reply #14 - Jan 18^th, 2004 at 3:57am

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hasnt come yet then... has it

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so sorry to hear that When is it expected?

No it hasn't.... They gave an estimate about a fortnight ago that it would come on monday or tuesday but when we rang them on wednesday they said they were having a slight problem. (eeek!) They said then it would come towards the end of this week. So its anyones guess.....

The question is, what do I write o my sig now?

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Did I offend you?

Absolutely not!

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I remain to be convinced!

I have to agree with you! I thought the whole Idea of a benchmark was to have exactly the same settings for the things that effect the test so you could compare computers at there core performance level. What is the point if its not a fair test?

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Reply #15 - Jan 18^th, 2004 at 5:23pm

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I have to agree with you! I thought the whole Idea of a benchmark was to have exactly the same settings for the things that effect the test so you could compare computers at there core performance level. What is the point if its not a fair test?

Yes, its absolute pap this benchmarking!

My benchmark is this, before, FS2002 maxxed & 8x AA with 8XAF (Purely for screenshots!) about 9fps over cities at a max! I now can get 18 > 20 fps!

3D Mark would have you believe my old pc was exactly as good as my new one, it isn't.

What, ultimately, is the point of such an obviously crap "benchmark" !!!

My remedy is to remove the damn thing and get back to silly fps figures and stutter free gaming.

(Don't mention CFS3! Roll Eyes

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P.S. You not got your's yet Bird?

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Reply #16 - Jan 18^th, 2004 at 10:08pm

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The question is, what do I write o my sig now?

Coming when it gets here....

Anyways, where did you buy it from?

Still have a nice PC but I just switched to a hella nice mac

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Reply #17 - Jan 18^th, 2004 at 10:34pm

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Newegg is the way to go in the states...can't beat them since they have a warehouse on both sides of the nation! And they use FedEx!

I got around 1200 in 3D Mark03. Probably will at least double when I get my 9700pro. 8)

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Reply #18 - Jan 19^th, 2004 at 4:16am

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Anyways, where did you buy it from?

Demonite http://www.demonite.com/ .

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P.S. You not got your's yet Bird?

Not yet! I wasn't too hopefull of it coming on sunday but ill give them a ring this morning!

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Newegg is the way to go in the states...can't beat them since they have a warehouse on both sides of the nation! And they use FedEx!

Other side of the pond mate! In Britain we only need one warehouse!

I don't really mind when it comes as long as it works when it comes! They had to completely build it from scratch as you can choose every single bit thats in it! So thats why it takes so long!

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Reply #19 - Jan 20^th, 2004 at 9:43pm

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Around 2439 in 2001SE with 64MB Intel Extreme Graphics .Not bad for integrated chipset graphics (eg. a 865g based motherboard scores 2914 in a UK magazine review of mobos)

Specs:P4 2.4GHZ,256MB RAM, 64MB Intel Extreme Graphics

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Reply #20 - Jan 21^st, 2004 at 5:04pm

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I've had results..... Grin

8)

I'm happy, next, overclock the b@$*#rd! Tongue

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Around 2439 in 2001SE with 64MB Intel Extreme Graphics .Not bad for integrated chipset graphics (eg. a 865g based motherboard scores 2914 in a UK magazine review of mobos)

Specs:P4 2.4GHZ,256MB RAM, 64MB Intel Extreme Graphics

Go and buy just about ANY Geforce card and reap results.....!!!!! Grin

P4 & integrated graphics..... Cruel.

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Reply #21 - Jan 21^st, 2004 at 5:12pm

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Glad you finally saw some increase in benchmark performance! What was wrong?

Are you brave enough to give us your 3dMark03 score?

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I'm happy, next, overclock the b@$*#rd!

May I ask whats wrong with leaving the poor thing alone?

PS. Interesting background you've got there!

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Reply #22 - Jan 21^st, 2004 at 6:08pm

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Glad you finally saw some increase in benchmark performance! What was wrong?

Are you brave enough to give us your 3dMark03 score?

May I ask whats wrong with leaving the poor thing alone?

PS. Interesting background you've got there!

2879, went to upload it (to give you a compare URL) and it told me I'd run the old version! Tsh, post another in a bit with the patch applied... Roll Eyes

Paul.

Background? Flying on L.S.D. ? Grin

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Reply #23 - Jan 22^nd, 2004 at 11:18am

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It's interesting to see your new benchmark Paul. It's almost identical to my rig with a slight overclock. And that corresponds to the 5600 being a little faster than the TI4200 as well, we both have more CPU power than Graphics power.

I wouldn't score well in the 2003 benchmark because the TI4200 would score 0 in the DX9 tests. (the dx9 tests wont run at all on a dx8 card).

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Reply #24 - Jan 22^nd, 2004 at 7:03pm

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Got my 9700pro, and benchmarked at 4699! Shocked

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Reply #25 - Jan 23^rd, 2004 at 6:26am

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I sincerely hope there is something wrong with this benchmark Sad

3D Mark03 score: 3294

Settings:
Driver 3.8 Catalyst
4x Antialiasing
8x Antrioscopic Filtering

I better try and install these 4.1 Cats but im not sure what to do!

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Reply #26 - Jan 23^rd, 2004 at 10:11am

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I managed to install the new Cat drivers and redid the benchmark this time with 2x AA and 2xAF. This time I got a better score:

3D Mark03 score: 5111

Settings:
Driver 4.1 Catalyst
2x Antialiasing
2x Antrioscopic Filtering

The proof of the pudding will be in the eating but I can't get off the ground with the keyboard! Need to get a new joystick!

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Reply #27 - Jan 23^rd, 2004 at 12:55pm

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Yo Swanny,
My highest so far was 2660. My specs below.

a) How on earth can you score 6050 with those specs?
b) How do you add a JPG as you've done?

Phil

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Reply #28 - Jan 23^rd, 2004 at 3:39pm

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I got 5700 points on 3dMark2003. I still think something is holding my system back though....Any ideas?

Intel P4 2.6ghz W/ 800 mhz FSB
Intel 865PERL Motherboard(newest bios installed)
ATI All In Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb(Catalyst 3.10 drivers intalled)
Creative Audigy 2 Gamer
1024mb PC3200 XMS Corsair memory
Antec AMG 1080 Plus Case
Windows XP Pro (service Pack 1)

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Reply #29 - Jan 24^th, 2004 at 4:10am

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What kinds of things can you do to increase your performance?

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Reply #30 - Jan 24^th, 2004 at 2:17pm

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Yo Swanny,
My highest so far was 2660. My specs below.

a) How on earth can you score 6050 with those specs?
b) How do you add a JPG as you've done?

Phil

a) lots o tweaking and Overclocking...
b)http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=screen;action=display;num=...

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Reply #31 - Jan 28^th, 2004 at 4:09am

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Wow, I havn't been here in a while. If I remember correctly my score is in my signature.

ASUS P4C800 Deluxe &&Geforce FX5900 Ultra(256 MB)&&1 gig DDR PC3200 RAM&&Pentium 4, 3.0 GHZ, 800 mhz FSB&&Coolermaster 550 watt power supply&&----------------------------&&<-3dmark03 =

6535

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Reply #32 - Jan 28^th, 2004 at 8:16am

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Hi deadnight, can I ask under what conditions you benchmarked with? AA AF etc. And is your system overclocked/tweaked?

Im asking because I think my system should get a higher score going on stats but I can only get 6359. I know there is little difference there but mine should be higher really!

Anyhoo, its way better then the 3000 score I got to begin with! (shocking!) Where can I go to find these 'tweaks'?.......

I shall get Adobe PFD installed so I can read futuremarks official benckmark setup settings for benchmarking!

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Reply #33 - Jan 28^th, 2004 at 6:17pm

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Sure.

Well, to start I turned the slider in the driver settings all the way down to performance, no aa, no af or anything.

The video card is slightly overclocked to 480/890. I'm not pushing it to the max but it's enough to get imrpoved performance without putting my video card into too much danger.

I also did some tweaks a while back that where posted in the forum at guru3d.com. I don't remember how to find them though. But what they did was make it so my computer uses RAM instead of writing page files to the hard drive. It just involved editing some registry entries.

Other than that I havn't really tweaked anything else. I must have gotten lucky and got everything setup good from the start. I could probably tweak the RAM timing a bit but I'm not going to bother with it. It's just some good hardware.

The ram is running in dual channel which makes a dramatic difference. I don't remember seeing if you posted your system specs or not but dual channel ram is very helpful. Your motherboard needs to support it though. Like I said I don't know what your system is.

Good luck!

ASUS P4C800 Deluxe &&Geforce FX5900 Ultra(256 MB)&&1 gig DDR PC3200 RAM&&Pentium 4, 3.0 GHZ, 800 mhz FSB&&Coolermaster 550 watt power supply&&----------------------------&&<-3dmark03 =

6535

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Reply #34 - Jan 29^th, 2004 at 4:24am

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My system is in my sig like yours. I think it should have dual channel but how do I find out?

I may have a look at some tweaks. I just wanted to check yours was! But still my system should win!

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Reply #35 - Jan 29^th, 2004 at 5:49pm

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Oh, I didn't notice it. It's slightly better than mine so you should be getting a better score.

Is your RAM 2 seperate chips? I'm guessing it is.

To run in dual channel the ram has to be in the correct slots. Either put both chips in the blue slots or both chips in the black slots. Not one in blue and one in black.
That should run it in dual channel. It mentions this somewhere in the manual too.

I'm not familiar with ATI cards so I can't comment much on that. That IS one of their most newest ones isn't it? If so then it's definatly better than my Nividia card. The nvidia FX cards choke on the dx9 test. Actually I'm going to end up having to get a new video card once dx9 games become more widly used. It's not exactly Nvidia's fault though, ATI and Nvidia both made their own gpu structure but ATI finished first.. so Microsoft created dx9 around the newer ATI cards. Both cards process dx9 information differently but because of this the nvidia fx cards have to do alot of different things to make the code compatible with their cards. That slows the cards down for dx9 stuff. It really sucks.

Well, good luck. I can't really give much help since I hardly know what I'm doing. hehe. I just went through websites that had system tweaks and used the tweaks that sounded good. Guru3d.com and anandtech.com are good places to look at.

ASUS P4C800 Deluxe &&Geforce FX5900 Ultra(256 MB)&&1 gig DDR PC3200 RAM&&Pentium 4, 3.0 GHZ, 800 mhz FSB&&Coolermaster 550 watt power supply&&----------------------------&&<-3dmark03 =

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Reply #36 - Jan 29^th, 2004 at 9:02pm

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I don't have the 3D mark program yet, but will d/l it either saturday while in my computer class, or monday while I'm at school and get right on it!

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Reply #37 - Feb 4^th, 2004 at 9:53am

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OK, downloaded the program great, without buying it...

After install I viewed the demo...with great results, but when I go to run the tests it will play the wings of fury video with frames between 120-250, but when it goes into the next set of videos/whatever it drops down to 3-10FPS.....

Do I have to purchase this program to get true realistic results? Or am I doing somethign wrong?

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Reply #38 - Feb 4^th, 2004 at 4:51pm

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everything is perfectlty fine, its just harder on the computer than Wings of Fury....

Still have a nice PC but I just switched to a hella nice mac

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Reply #39 - Feb 5^th, 2004 at 8:16pm

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everything is perfectlty fine, its just harder on the computer than Wings of Fury....

Are you sure, because running the demo everything runs great while also playing the audio portion of it...???

It just doesn't make sense that one way would work, and the other wouldn't... Wink

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Reply #40 - Feb 6^th, 2004 at 5:07am

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Everything is how it should be. 3-10fps is quite good!

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Reply #41 - Feb 6^th, 2004 at 9:10am

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Ok I wasn't sure, just wanted to be sure that i was getting an accurate reading...

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Reply #42 - Feb 6^th, 2004 at 11:53am

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You can't ask that question without telling us your score Jared!

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Reply #43 - Mar 3^rd, 2004 at 12:28am

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here are mine. i reccomend using a program called Enditall search on google for it and that will give you best results

i was kinda expecting more from my system though and my cpu reads at 2026 mhz when it should be more something like 2250. anyone got any ideas on that

much appreciated

daz

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