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A good score?

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TechJunkie95242

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Is around 15,000 a good score in 3DMark2001SE for my current system?

THERMALTAKE XASER III (7fans)
Antec 450watt
AMD Athlon 3000+(2.167)
ASUS A7V8X
9800XT 256mb
Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS
512mb DDR 2700
Seagate 120Gb 8mb Cache 7,200rpm
MAXTOR 60Gb 7,200rpm

I also am getting a Tech job this summer that pays around $60/hr overseeing the management of workstation construction and networks, and was wondering should I buy a completely new system or should I upgrade?

The sky's the limit.

Thanks for any advice.
 
I would think more like 18k since you have a 9800xt. I only use 3d mark 03 but from what I see mid 17k at least for your rig.
 
Thats what I thought, I thought it was low, might be because my Mobo was the first ASUS mobo to support 333Mhz FSB, or might be because of my RAM, I am planning on getting 1-1.5Gb soon, hopefully Hyper-x,corsair, or mushkin.

Thanks for the comments..
 
that score is about right, and you are correct in that it is most likely your mobo/ram bottlenecking you.

That board does not utilize the dualchannel memory you normally see in similar tests, and would probably add 2k or more if you were to have the same board but with the nvidial chip (a7n8x) and 2 sticks of ram
 
Originally posted by: Ninjazx
that score is about right, and you are correct in that it is most likely your mobo/ram bottlenecking you.

That board does not utilize the dualchannel memory you normally see in similar tests, and would probably add 2k or more if you were to have the same board but with the nvidial chip (a7n8x) and 2 sticks of ram
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I thought AMD chips didn't much benefit from dual channel ram?
 
But not enough to add 2k to his 3dmark score. It probably wouldn't do that even for an Intel platform, and they make much better use of it than AMD.
 
If it plays games at the rez you want w/ frames you find playable, then who cares what 3dmark scores are? 3dmark certainly isnt the best or most reputable benchmark util out there anymore.
-doug
 
Install the newest VIA drivers. Mine went from 4900 to 6000 (3dmark03) going from 4.48 to 4.51 VIA 4-in-1
 
I believe the exact change i remember seeing was using an asus a7n8x, corsair xms memory(dono what speed) and got ~1800 more points.
 
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