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3DMark03 score off?

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blacktankofhopelessness

Senior member
Hi,

Just got my 9800 Pro card in the mail and immediately started running benches and doing mild OC's. I carefully uninstalled my old Ti4200 drivers and then switched cards. Then I installed the Catalyst 4.9 driver and the new Control center.
With this setup I scored a modest 2725 in 3DMark03 with core and mem at stock (380/680). I OC'd to 405/720 and scored 2882. I haven't checked whether I have the 350 or 360 core so I'm being careful with the OC bit for now. I am aware that my CPU is limiting my scores quite a bit, but shouldn't I get higher scores still? With my old Ti4200 I scored 1504 running the same bench.

Setup:
ASUS A7V8X
AMD Athlon XP "Palomino" 2000+ (at stock)
512MB RAM PC2700 Samsung
Windows XP Pro
Sapphire "Atlantis" Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB RAM
(Old card: GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB RAM)

Btw, how conservative do I need to be OC with AtiTool 0.0.22? Is it safe to do the max core/mem test with the original hsf and passive mem-cooling?
 
Check your AA/AF settings in the Control Center and set them to "Application Prefrence".
Did you use Driver Cleaner in safe mode when uninstalling/installing the drivers?
3DMark 2k3 is more a GPU than CPU dependant, I scored 4800 on my old crappy 2Ghz Celeron with my current card, and now I score 5500 with my 2800+ Barton, so you should get atleast 4500 with your setup.
And yes, Algere meant you should reinstall your mobo drivers again.

edit: OMG, I just noticed you got the Atlantis 128bit Pro, I don't know about this card's 3DMark score, you could check the futuremark website to see other people's scores on this card.
 
The 128bit pro is a lot slower than the real pro, but still should give far better scores than the ~2800 you're seeing. I'm guessing 4500-5k stock...?
 
Originally posted by: PrayForDeath


edit: OMG, I just noticed you got the Atlantis 128bit Pro, I don't know about this card's 3DMark score, you could check the futuremark website to see other people's scores on this card.
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how u know he got the crippple 128-bit?
 
that card is 256 bit and yes those scores are low.
If you run mbm 5 or fraps these will kill video bandwidth.
Is the video smooth and not choppy and did you correctly set the agp aperture in bios?
 
yea, way off. the control center by default I believe adds AA. just unclick the box and shut off AF as well.
 
Somewhat related - does anyone know if upgrading the motherboard's bios would make a difference in 3DMark/or have an overall impact in gaming performance?
 
Originally posted by: Nikamichi
Somewhat related - does anyone know if upgrading the motherboard's bios would make a difference in 3DMark/or have an overall impact in gaming performance?
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Doubtful, and flashing the bios should generally be reserved for problems for which it's known that flashing it will fix.
 
Originally posted by: Gurck
Originally posted by: Nikamichi
Somewhat related - does anyone know if upgrading the motherboard's bios would make a difference in 3DMark/or have an overall impact in gaming performance?
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Doubtful, and flashing the bios should generally be reserved for problems for which it's known that flashing it will fix.
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Ah, that's what I figured. Just trying to find every possible tweak as I'm a bit disappointed w/my 3DMark score.

🙁
 
Thanks everyone for your valuable pointers!

Just for the record, the Atlantis is a 256bit card...

I'm installing the Via Hyperion drivers right after this post and then reinstalling the Catalyst 4.9 drivers. Will get back to you on my scores.
 
Ok, here's what I got:

1. I set the graphics aperture to 128MB in BIOS.
2. I set AGP to 8x instead of "auto".
3. Installed VIA Hyperion 4 in 1 driver.
4. Installed Catalyst 4.9.
5. OC my 9800 Pro to a moderate 405/360 in Ati Tool.

Ran 3DMark03, GPU tests only.

Scored: 5610

Thanks! And a special kudos to cubanx who recommended the VIA Hyperion driver! Oh, and thanks to everyone telling me about setting AA/AF to auto.
 
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