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3D Mark 2005 Score

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imported_goku

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Ok I am running 3DMark05 on my machine with like all programs closed, latest drivers and network disabled but I am only getting a score of 1125! The system I am running on is in my sig, I have absolutely no bottle necks I can think of: PC4000 ram, SYNC FSB 250MHZ CPU at 3.5GHZ latest everything (except service pack 2) I just don't get why I am getting a low score. Any tips to improve the score? I am running it with CATALYST 4.7 (just realized they aren't extremely new). Any performance difference between catalyst 4.7 and 4.9? Or are there other factors leading to this score. Please post your tips and advice to how your able to achieve high scores in 3Dmark in general because I haven't been able to find any useful guides on the web.
Thanks!

EDIT: I am actually running on a AIW Radeon 9800Pro (just wondering if it could affect scores).
 
Originally posted by: goku2100
Any performance difference between catalyst 4.7 and 4.9?
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Only the largest performance difference to come from ATi drivers in quite some time. But that's not why you're getting 1100, drivers will only account for two or three digit changes, you're like less than half of where you should be.

Typical things that will affect 3Dmark scores:
1) AA/AF settings
2) Chipset drivers
3) 128 bit 9800 (this is probably not your problem as I know of no 128 bit AIWs)
 
Bottleneck is prolly the 9800.. got 3000ish on my 6800, and 6000ish on my x800 XT PE.

'05 is designed to last a while, so don't expect 10k+ for some time.
 
Originally posted by: OMG1Penguin
Bottleneck is prolly the 9800.. got 3000ish on my 6800, and 6000ish on my x800 XT PE.

'05 is designed to last a while, so don't expect 10k+ for some time.
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3000ish? Something's wrong if you're getting 3000ish with the 6800, and 6k with the XT PE. The hotfix drivers for the ATi cards unbalanced the equation, but even with that, I get in the high 5k range with my 6800, and slow 6k's with my x800 XT PE.
 
(*Smacks self on head), lol I had the video card on the very highest settings IE Temporal Anti Aliasing 6X, 16X Anisotropic Mip Map detail/texture preference on High Quality, Truform Enabled (Was playing Vice City). I retook the test with the very lowest settings and got 2317, I hope that is a normal/good score. Still wonders how much more I can do to improve my score and also wonders if any games use Truform yet.
 
Originally posted by: goku2100
(*Smacks self on head), lol I had the video card on the very highest settings IE Temporal Anti Aliasing 6X, 16X Anisotropic Mip Map detail/texture preference on High Quality, Truform Enabled (Was playing Vice City). I retook the test with the very lowest settings and got 2317, I hope that is a normal/good score. Still wonders how much more I can do to improve my score and also wonders if any games use Truform yet.
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A completely O/S new install with the latest drivers would probaly get you a few more points.
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You're in the ballpark . . . . forcing setting in CP will ruin any 3DMark bench. 😉

I'm scoring 2581 with my stock-speeds 9800xt (and it is mostly GPU dependent). . . . .

. . . . want higher? O/C your 9800p. 😉


EDIT: you mean "default" 3DMark05 settings, right? "Application Preference" in the Control Panel . . . . not "forcing" lower settings!
 
Yes default '05 settings since I haven't bought it yet, no not just the graphics slider setting in the ATI control panel IE. the one wiht (High Quality, High ,Performance etc. I went into custom and lowered practically everything. I was thinking of overclocking the card/ upgrade card to Radeon 9800XT but I want to get a new fan first. Wonders if extreme Giant II from thermal take is sufficient or should I get the Extreme giant III. I wont be doing any volt mods because I'm not that die hard, yet.

Infact I would call this a relatively new OS install. I installed everything about a month ago when I recieved the HDD from maxtor (RMA) and the system hasn't been used enough to the point where it looks like it has "adjusted" to me.
 
Originally posted by: goku2100
Yes default '05 settings since I haven't bought it yet, no not just the graphics slider setting in the ATI control panel IE. the one wiht (High Quality, High ,Performance etc. I went into custom and lowered practically everything. I was thinking of overclocking the card/ upgrade card to Radeon 9800XT but I want to get a new fan first. Wonders if extreme Giant II from thermal take is sufficient or should I get the Extreme giant III. I wont be doing any volt mods because I'm not that die hard, yet.
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Don't lower anything . . . . just set it to "Application Preference". 😉

And the best way to get more performance points in 3DMark 03/05 is to Overclock your videocard . . . .
i have NO idea what VGA cooler works for the All-inWonder Pro . . . . the usual choice for the 9800P is Arctic-Cooling Silencer Rev 3 (i love mine - although it takes up an additional slot; it exhausts hot GPU air OUT of your case).

Flashing a 128MB Radeon Pro to XT gives (almost) no advantage over simply O/C'ing it. When you start to see artifacts (in 3DMark03 Nature, for e.g.), back-off on the O/C. 😉
 
Yes but wouldn't it be a safe O'C because ATI knows how much to overclock before you'll get video distortion? I think using other utilities is a lot more risky since they dont know what is a safe overclock (I use em on other cards).
 
I got a score of 750 (Video Card was OC'ed to 410core 230memory) on a Mobility Radeon 9600 (On Thinkpad T42 Lappy the one I just got). And average framerates of 3-4 on the test so not getting past like 1FPS or 0 is a problem.
 
Originally posted by: apoppin
Truform Enabled (Was playing Vice City).
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Truform doesn't do anything in Vice City, or 3DMark for that matter. 😉

As for games that do, a few did but it isn't happening anymore as only the r200 had hardware trueform support.
 
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