Celeron or FX5600?

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: tadmaz
I found this is another forum:

Intel Celeron 2.2Ghz, 256MB DDR266 RAM (Generic) GeForce FX5600 128MB (Non-Ultra), I seem to get a score in 3DMark2001 of 6000 - 6500. Is what i should be getting?

So I guess the celly is just that bad...

I get 2200 on 3dmark2003, and that apparently is on par!!! An MSI FX5600 on a P4 2.8 gets 2100 (found from pcstats.com) (Since 2003 is mostly GPU) So this almost 100% proves that the celeron is the single reason why I'm not getting ~10000 on 2001. Anyone agree/disagree?

Yes 2200 is about right for a fx5600 with 3dmark 2003, here are my results (xp2500 cpu fx5600 etc):-

3DMark Score 2404 3DMarks

GT1 - Wings of Fury 101.3 fps
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon 16.5 fps
GT3 - Troll's Lair 13.3 fps
GT4 - Mother Nature 11.1 fps

CPU Tests

CPU Score 461 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1 48.4 fps
CPU Test 2 8.7 fps

Feature Tests

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 698.6 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1011.6 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader 6.2 fps
Pixel Shader 2.0 14.8 fps
Ragtroll 9.4 fps

 

[Cerb]

Yes, yes and yes.
Let the Celeron die a terrible, lonely death. A P4C or AthlonXP will blow it away.
RAM helps a lot. 512MB PC3200 would be minimum right now, 1GB preferred (256MB will swap too often, killing performance).
The 5600 is crap. BUT nowhere near as crappy as a Northwood Celeron (and I bet that's single-channel RAM, too).

 

[thelanx]

Yup I used to have a celeron 2.0@2.67 that choked my 9700pro. 3dmark03 wasn't too bad, but far cry was running real slow. I just thought it was tough on GPU's until I saw other ppl's benches. I found out I was cpu limited even at very high and 10x7. Upgrading to a 2.8c more than doubled my far cry performance and similarily in other games. I had 512 mb ram, which I recommend as the least you should have. 3dmark03 isn't the greatest benchmark for seeing how well your system runs games, it's a better used as an evaluation of your GPU only.

 

[tadmaz]

I got my new mobo and my computer still does not bootup, so my celeron KILLED ITSELF!!! YAY!!! I ordered a P4 2.4C 800 MHz HT and also a Corsair 256 MB PC-2100 chip (so I'll have 512 MB total). Thanks for all of your guys' input.

 

[tadmaz]

I got the P4 and my FPS is WAY better, but my PSU is faulty, so I can't get the test to complete lol. I was getting 140+ fps in the first test as compared to 60 before, lol.