Hi guys, I have been reading these forums for several weeks now and you seem to be "the" people to ask about something like this, so here goes:
I just recently noticed that my Hercules GeForce 2 Ultra was showing its age when I Was trying to play Soldier of Fortune 2 at even 800x600 with some nice details on. Sub 30 frames was really becoming unplayable. So I went ahead and purchased a new SOYO V8440. Immediately after sticking it I was much happier with my Sof 2 framerates, but I was also interested in my 3dmarks scores, which were absolutely pitiful (low 5000's) with the Gfce 2 Ultra. My rig is as follows:
Athlon Xp 1900+
ABIT KR7A-Raid KT266A mb
512 PC2100 Crucial ddr ram.
Ti4400 video
Audigy Platinum
and other standard stuff
I occasionally overclock the processor when the temperatures in my room allow for the pushing of some cooler air over my processor. However, the point of this post is that I Am concerned about my 3dmark scores. I am using the latest build of 3dmark 2001se, with the 29.20 drivers which were recommended to me to be the best for framerates for the gfce 4 cards. With everything at stock speeds, the best score in 3dmark that I can get is in the VERY low 9000's. I got scores of 9045 and 9052 using the above drivers. After reading reviews for the geforce 4 cards I expected my scores to at least be in the high 9000's , but I cant seem to do any better than about 9050 without overclocking. Becoming extremely frustrated, I attempted to replicate the test on Tom's Hardware ( I know they are not neccesarily the pinnacle of modern hardware journalism, but... they had a review that was easy to get to.) I clocked my processor up to the speed of their test system (2000+ AMD), and left the video card at stock speeds. Their test system used a motherboard with the exact same chipset mine has, and I am using 512 ram instead of 256, but I figuered that would make little to no difference. Using the same drivers, my scores are still over 400 marks different. Its possible that I am making a mountain out of a mole hill here, but do you guys have any suggestions ? Thanks for any input.
Chris
I just recently noticed that my Hercules GeForce 2 Ultra was showing its age when I Was trying to play Soldier of Fortune 2 at even 800x600 with some nice details on. Sub 30 frames was really becoming unplayable. So I went ahead and purchased a new SOYO V8440. Immediately after sticking it I was much happier with my Sof 2 framerates, but I was also interested in my 3dmarks scores, which were absolutely pitiful (low 5000's) with the Gfce 2 Ultra. My rig is as follows:
Athlon Xp 1900+
ABIT KR7A-Raid KT266A mb
512 PC2100 Crucial ddr ram.
Ti4400 video
Audigy Platinum
and other standard stuff
I occasionally overclock the processor when the temperatures in my room allow for the pushing of some cooler air over my processor. However, the point of this post is that I Am concerned about my 3dmark scores. I am using the latest build of 3dmark 2001se, with the 29.20 drivers which were recommended to me to be the best for framerates for the gfce 4 cards. With everything at stock speeds, the best score in 3dmark that I can get is in the VERY low 9000's. I got scores of 9045 and 9052 using the above drivers. After reading reviews for the geforce 4 cards I expected my scores to at least be in the high 9000's , but I cant seem to do any better than about 9050 without overclocking. Becoming extremely frustrated, I attempted to replicate the test on Tom's Hardware ( I know they are not neccesarily the pinnacle of modern hardware journalism, but... they had a review that was easy to get to.) I clocked my processor up to the speed of their test system (2000+ AMD), and left the video card at stock speeds. Their test system used a motherboard with the exact same chipset mine has, and I am using 512 ram instead of 256, but I figuered that would make little to no difference. Using the same drivers, my scores are still over 400 marks different. Its possible that I am making a mountain out of a mole hill here, but do you guys have any suggestions ? Thanks for any input.
Chris
