3D Mark 2001 Need Help

[austin316]

My setup is:

AMD XP 1600+
Soyo Dragon +
256 MB 2100 DDR Crucial Ram
GeForce MX 400 64MB vid card
40 Gig 72000 IBM HD

Alrite. I downloaded the program and using all the default settings I ran the tests (Also, I had stuff in my task tray like Norton and Webshots. should I have closed those down?). Now I have a couple of questions. First, when I opened the program, and hit system info, it shows that my processor is an AMD Palamino @ 1.37GHZ, when it should be 1.4GHZ since I have an AMD Athlon XP 1600+. I have a program that comes with my video card and it shows cpu speed as 1401MHZ. Is there another way I could double check to make sure I'm set up at 1.4ghz? Another thing is after the tests, a few of them said I don't have the hardware for them. The nature test, enivornment bump mapping, and the pixel shader didn't run. Do I have to full with settings, or does an MX not support these? Final two things. After running the tests, the website said my FSB is 133. I'm pretty sure this should say 266, how can I change, or view my speed. Finally, my score was 2359, which seems low, even for a crappy video card. Thanks in advance

 

[LuDaCriS66]

<< Alrite. I downloaded the program and using all the default settings I ran the tests. Now I have a couple of questions. First, when I opened the program, and hit system info, it shows that my processor is an AMD Palamino @ 1.37GHZ, when it should be 1.4GHZ since I have an AMD Athlon XP 1600+. I have a program that comes with my video card and it shows cpu speed as 1401MHZ >>



Don't worry about that. That's normal for 3DMark.




<< Another thing is after the tests, a few of them said I don't have the hardware for them. The nature test, enivornment bump mapping, and the pixel shader didn't run. Do I have to full with settings, or does an MX not support these >>



No, the MX doesn't support those features. A GF3 or a Radeon 8500 would.



<< After running the tests, the website said my FSB is 133. I'm pretty sure this should say 266 >>



<< After running the tests, the website said my FSB is 133. I'm pretty sure this should say 266 >>



Nope, it's right. 266 refers to your DDR memory.




<< Finally, my score was 2359, which seems low, even for a crappy video card. Thanks in advance >>



It's low but I wouldn't worry about it. People depend on 3DMark too much. As long as your games run fine, then don't worry about it.

 

[austin316]

Thanks for the help. One last question. So my FSB is only 133? I thought the KT266A boards are 266?

 

[LuDaCriS66]

In theory it's 266 but it's actually 133. It's only 266 because the DDR memory "doubles" the FSB from 133 to 266.
But I could be wrong.. I'm only about 85% sure about this.

 

[Rand]

<< In theory it's 266 but it's actually 133. It's only 266 because the DDR memory "doubles" the FSB from 133 to 266.
But I could be wrong.. I'm only about 85% sure about this. >>



The actual clock frequency is 133MHz, but it operates on a DDR principle, and transfers data at an equivalent speed to a theoretical 266MHz FSB.

It has nothing to do with whether the board utilizes DDR SDRAM or not though.

3DMark often misdetects FSB/clockspeed etc, ignore what it has to say. It detecs my processors clockspeed between 0.06MHz-1767MHz each time I run it, and my FSB supposedly varies between 0/1/133/178.

Nature test and the pixel shader test need hardware DX8 support, and can only run on a graphics card like the GF3, Radeon 8500 etc.
The GF2 does not support environmental bump mapping, it can run on the G400/G450/G550/Radeon 7XXX,8XXX, GF3 etc... basically any modern graphics card except the GeForce 1/2.

As for your score... well 3DMark is extremely unrepreentative of real world gaming performance, so frankly I wouldnt worry at all about what it says.
Your score does seem about 700 points low.... but even so I wouldnt worry at all about what 3DMark claims.
It looks flashy and has some interesting tests, but it's accuracy is limited.

 

[austin316]

man, you guys rock. I can spend a half hour on google looking for the answers and still not get 'em. Here my stuff gets answered right away. Thanks alot.