New AIW 9700 Pro - Poor 3D Mark Scores

[Brewer]

Please help. I have just installed the new AIW 9700 Pro. First 3d Mark scores were bad at 9500. Now after retesting the best I can do is 7500.

My system is a Dell Dimension 8100. Intel P4 2.4GHz. 768 RD800 RAMM. Power Supply is 250 Watts. OS WinXP Pro SP1. ATI Driver Version is 6.13.10.6200. Other Items installed are LiteOn DVD/CD player, Yamaha EZ2200 CDRW, Maxtoer 5000DV External 120GB Hard Drive. IBM 40GB Internal Hard Drive (Slave). Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM Hard Drive (Master). Hercules game Theater 6.1.

Is it possible the problem is heat related? Or maybe power related?.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Knightlife]

I'm doing fine with it...I believe it says 300Watt min for power supply for optimal performance.

 

[technician]

Yeah, I'd say the same. If you have an extra PS laying around, patch just your graphics card into that to test. If 3DMark goes up, then you know what the problem is. If not, it could be a heat issue. Are you overclocking/attemping to overclock the GPU?

 

[broadwayblue]

i was worried about the power supply too...but i put the 9700tx (from my new dell 8250) in my older 1.8 ghz dell 4500 w/ 230 watt power supply yesterday and it seems to be running fine. scored 10,569 on 3d mark.

 

[Deeko]

fvck 3DMark. How is UT2k3 doin?

 

[Knightlife]

Word. 3Dmark blechness.

 

[merlocka]

Have you tried any application benchmarks rather than 3dmark which is a fairly unreliable synthetic?

I assume you've read Madonions FAQ on the topic?

Perhaps benchmark the UT2003 demo and post those results, as it's a game you can actually play. You could compare your results with these. Details on the benchmark setup are here..

 

[kylebisme]

dell powersuplies are are very nice and i doubt it is an issue at all, though a lot of other things could be. for instance are you sure you are running agpx4? are you useing the latest drivers?

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: Knightlife
I'm doing fine with it...I believe it says 300Watt min for power supply for optimal performance.

Actually ATI will not give you support if you have less than a 350W powersupply. And it could void your warranty on your card.
FYI with slow memory timings, and nothing OC'd I get just under 13000, woopty doo. And they say a 2.0GHz p4 is faster than an athlon XP 2000+??? more aggressive memory timings get me a couple hundred over 13000. And my system is crippled right now while I wait for my 80Gig WD SE to get back. I'm using an old 4.3Gb seagate w/ATA33.

 

[Bovinicus]

Make sure you don't have things like V-Sync, Anisotropic filtering, or FSAA on. Not that these things are bad; it's just that most people report their scores with these options disabled.