3dmark of 8000 - kinda low for my rig?

[muncher]

I'm getting ~8000 on 3dMark and I have oc'd it via coolbits to 310/610. Originally, I thought this was quite decent, however I've seen 8000 marks coming from non-oc'd ti-4200's and that same card would hit a 9500 3dmark.

Any help would be great!

Thanks,
Anthony

Here's my system info

System Info Version: 2.2
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000
Processor: AMD AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ @ 1.67 GHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400
Total Physical Memory: 768 MB <-- DDR Mem
Free Physical Memory: 561.82 MB
Motherboard Manufacturer: ABIT <http://www.abit.com.tw>
Motherboard Model: VT8366A-8233 (KR7A)

DirectX Version: 8.1
DirectDraw Version : 5.1.2600.881
DirectShow Version: 6.03.01.0400

Description: Primary Display Driver
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Name: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4400
Total Local Video Memory: 128 MB
Total Local Texture Memory: 159 MB
Total AGP Memory: 0 bytes
Display Driver: nv4_disp.dll
Display Driver Version: 6.13.10.4072
Driver WHQL Certified: No
Max Texture Width : 4096
Max Texture Height: 4096
Max User Clipping Planes: 0
Max Active Hardware Lights: 8
Max Texture Blending Stages: 8
Textures In Single Pass: 4
Vertex Shader Version: 1.1
Pixel Shader Version: 1.3
Max Vertex Blend Matrices: 0
Max Texture Coordinates: 8
Vendor ID: 0x10de
Device ID: 0x0251
Sub-System ID: 0x87101462
Revision: 0xa2

Revision: 2.0
Rate: 1x, 2x, 4x
Aperture Size: 256 MB
Sideband Addressing: supported (disabled)
Fast Write: supported (disabled)

 

[Necrolezbeast]

I've seen that some cards and or mobo's have a problem with using an aperture over 128mb and actually decreasing performance. I would recommend trying 128mb or even 64mb. I'm not even sure what the aperture size does, but I've just seen some people that have had similar problems and fixed it with lowering the aperture size. If anyone does know exactly what it is and does I would like to know, just for some more useless knowledge...hehe. With my 1600+(at only 100fsb), epox 8k7a(aperture at 128mb), 256mb pc2100(also at 100mhz), albatron ti4200(stock speeds) I score 7700. I have my rig underclocked do to the nice problem of the 5v rail on the 8k7a, it is the highest setting I can use and have full stability in all my games....good thing I have my MSI kt3 Ultra2 coming tomorrow.

 

[Deeko]

(ignores first post after seeing title)

What is your UT2K3 score?

 

[JSSheridan]

About the AGP aperture size: This setting will make a portion of you system's physical memory available to the AGP card for the purpose of storing textures in it. This memory is used when the RAM on the AGP card is full. 128MB's video RAM is enough for everyone right now, so I've got my aperture size at the minimum. It shouldn't hurt your performance to set your aperture size down to a low level. I don't think that having the aperture size at the level it is now would hurt you either though, since you still have 512MB free to use. It won't hurt to give Necrolezbeast's suggestion a shot though. Hope this helps. Peace.

 

[Viper96720]

4 in 1 drivers installed with agp in turbo mode? Otherwise your agp will be running 2x instead of 4x. You don't have AA or AF enabled or anything do you?