How are these 3dMark scores? Geforce 4 Ti4200, 2400+, look low to me :(

[Catiaudo]

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5835217

How do they look?

 

[BmXStuD]

heres mine yours is nice to me. ;-)

 

[Hammyton]

Maybe FSAA/Anisotropic filtering is actually enabled in your detonator settings?

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

it doesnt seem to be overclocked
is it all at stock? (vidcard)

 

[human2k]

here's mines: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5794015

Make sure in your driver panel that all AA/AS is turned off like they said.

 

[chizow]

It looks to be about right, I was scoring around 12k with my Ti4200 Turbo (OC'd to 310/650 as most of the turbos did).

Some key indicators about your rig:

• 133FSB will yield lower scores vs. a higher FSB at the same clock speed.
  
  If the card isn't OC'd you'll get lower scores
  
  The rest of the settings shouldn't matter too much, but there are a few tweaks you can do to get it slightly higher, not worth it IMO.

Here's some scores you can compare to:

Radeon 9700pro with high FSB, XP at 2.4ghz

GF 4 Ti4200 Turbo OC't to 310/650 on a 1.8ghz XP

Chiz

 

[blcjr]

Hey, Chizow, take a look at this:

16,141 3dmark2001se score

We both have the 2100+ T-bred B. I'm at 2090 Mhz, and you are at 2401 Mhz. We nominally have the same video card. But despite your overwhelming edge in clock speed, my 3d marks score is higher! :Q

We're almost at the same FSB. (Despite what the report says, mine seems to be 190, not 189; my multiplier is 11, and that yields the 2090. Looks like your multiplier is 12.5)

Only other significant differences: mobo, and -- perhaps -- the video card. Mine is actually a 9500 with the Soft9700 patch. It is overclocked to something like 351/298.

Or what about memory? I'm running PC3200 sync'd with the FSB, e.g. at 380 Mhz.

Anything else you can think of?

I got my 2100+ on Friday, and spent most of Friday, and large parts of Saturday and Sunday, trying to match the kind of performances being posted in the big (600+ messages) 2100+ T-bred B thread. I couldn't get anything over 2100 to run without eventual prime95 errors. So I was disappointed to have to settle for 2600+ performance. Now I'm not so sure I should be whining. But I do wish I understood better what is going on.

 

[chizow]

Yah, its the timings on that RAM at that FSB...very poor timings on my poor Samsung PC2700

Running something sad like cas 3-4-4-8 at that speed

I'm also running DX 9 (cuz 8.1 doesn't work with my tuner at all), which drops my scores about 1k (compared to same speeds on 8.1) and I haven't touched my Radeon settings at all or OC'd.

I'm currently running 14 x 172 I think, scores are better but I still need to publish them. I'm looking into some XMS TwinX to open up my bandwidth with tighter timings.

Chiz

 

[blcjr]

Originally posted by: chizow
Yah, its the timings on that RAM at that FSB...very poor timings on my poor Samsung PC2700

Running something sad like cas 3-4-4-8 at that speed

I'm also running DX 9 (cuz 8.1 doesn't work with my tuner at all), which drops my scores about 1k (compared to same speeds on 8.1) and I haven't touched my Radeon settings at all or OC'd.

I'm currently running 14 x 172 I think, scores are better but I still need to publish them. I'm looking into some XMS TwinX to open up my bandwidth with tighter timings.

Chiz

Ah, the light begins to dawn. Still, it is surprising to me that RAM timings could make that much difference. I'm running the "turbo" setting the Abit N7 BIOS -- I think that's 2-2-2-7. Cannot stop to look now -- Prime95 is crunching away as I try to crank it up a couple of more notches on the FSB after a few other BIOS tweaks. So far -- about 45 minutes -- so good. But I've been here before, only to have Prime95 fail after 8 hours. But at 11x192FSB I just cranked out a 16503 3dmark. I'll publish that if Prime95 is still running when I get back from school (about 12 hours from now). Temps are good -- 39 right now under the load of Prime95, with the case temp at 27. That tends to creep up to 41 after a while, but that's about it. As for XMS TwinX, when I bought the components for the system, I didn't realize that 2x256 might be better than 1x512 with this mobo, and just bought one 512. Still, I ain't complaining.

Thanks for the insights.

-Baz