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3DMark2001 score of <8000 with Radeon 9700 Pro???

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PremiumG

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What's going on with this? I got a score of like 7,900 on 3DMark 2001. I have the latest drivers on my Radeon 9700, with Fast Write enabled and 4X AGP speed on.

Here are my specs:
Ahtlon 1.33 gig (OC'ed), non XP chip
512 PC133 RAM
Radeon 9700 Pro


I got a score of 4000+ on 3DMark2k3 which seems right, but why is the 3DMark2001 so low??
 
That's what i figured but i have an almost identical system except w/ faster RAM settings, same 1.33 Gig AMD, same mobo, but with a 9500 Pro.

The 9500 Pro beat out the 9700 Pro on these two almost identical systems. The 9500 Pro got 8600 on 3DMark 2001.

 
Even the 9500pro is overkill for that rig. Your vid cards are starving for more bandwidth and CPU horsepower. With these cards, the faster CPU you have the better. To give you an idea, I have a P4 2.8/533 1 GB Dual Channel DDR333 Asus P4P800 (865PE Springdale) and a Radeon 9700 non pro pulling over 14000 in 3DMark 2001SE. Using Cat 3.10s and Windows 2K.

If you o/c your AMD a little you will see your mark go up marginally. Your memory will prevent you from going very far.
 
3dmark 2k3 takes your video cad into account for the tests ALOT more than it does the processor. 2k1 mixes up the 2 better.

My system with a 8500 128meg radeon with 2400+ barton mobile @ 2266mhz 181 fsb

~11200 in 2k1
~1800 in 2k3

With my old 1.4gig (xp1600+) chip @ 133fsb DDR it scored

~8600 in 2k1
~1600 in 2k3
 
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
Even the 9500pro is overkill for that rig. Your vid cards are starving for more bandwidth and CPU horsepower. With these cards, the faster CPU you have the better. To give you an idea, I have a P4 2.8/533 1 GB Dual Channel DDR333 Asus P4P800 (865PE Springdale) and a Radeon 9700 non pro pulling over 14000 in 3DMark 2001SE. Using Cat 3.10s and Windows 2K.

If you o/c your AMD a little you will see your mark go up marginally. Your memory will prevent you from going very far.
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something might be wrong with your setup too then.
my stock XP2500+ Barton and at the time, 512MB Kingston Hyper-X got me 15,200 (nothing overclocked)
 
Originally posted by: rancherlee
3dmark 2k3 takes your video cad into account for the tests ALOT more than it does the processor. 2k1 mixes up the 2 better.

My system with a 8500 128meg radeon with 2400+ barton mobile @ 2266mhz 181 fsb

~11200 in 2k1
~1800 in 2k3

With my old 1.4gig (xp1600+) chip @ 133fsb DDR it scored

~8600 in 2k1
~1600 in 2k3
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hey wtf? i got a 2400+ and a 128mb sapphire radeon 9100 and i only get 7800 3dmarks.... did u turn off antivirus before benching?
 
9100's dont suck! Just the 64 bit one like I have do. A 9100 is a 8500le with very minor tweaking. It doesnt sound like you have a 64 bit one. My athlon 2200 and a 9100 wouldnt go over 6.4k without oc'ing the video card. I would reinstall your drivers if I were you
 
See sig, I get ~17500 stock speed on 2K1. Also try the cpu compare on Futuremarks site, they should have some people with cpu's close to yours that you can check against. If it turns out your score is lower then it should be, ask on Futuremarks forums, people over there know all the tweaks for maximizing 3DMark scores.
 
the reason y those ppl get such high scores is cuz they overclock every single thing that they're running, all mine a re stock, so maybe 7800 is ok... besides some punk with a 1.5ghz axp killed me and got over 9500 marks..., and no 9100 doesn't suck but i hope it'l last me for the dx9 era...
 
My Athlon 1600+ 1.4ghz stock and Radeon 8500 275/275 stock gets 8900 points on MSI KT3 Ultra 2 and 8600 points on Asus A7V266-E and 11480 points on 3.2ghz p4 on Abit IS7.

Blazer78, your card runs at 250/250 and if its 128-bit bus then you should have a score of about 9000 with your 2600+ cpu.

Make sure you have all the bars on the left in the control panel and performance mode enabled, vsync off, and quality settings off.

As for PremiumG, your system shows a prime example of how grouping a fast videocard with slow components is a waste of money (if you play games that is). Put it this way, in some games which are more cpu limited due to AI like first-person shooters, a 3.0ghz p4 with Radeon 8500 or geforce 4 4200 wil smoke your rig.

But since your card is very good, right now you can pick up an Athlon 2500+ for $80, and an nforce 2 mobo for $50-60 and some value 512mb 2700 ram for $50 bucks i bet. So then for <200 your rig will score in 14-15000 easily or be twice as fast.
 
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