Poor performance: p4-2.4 with Geforce4 4200

[jreiter]

I'm new to the forums here at Anandtech (although I've been reading Anand for a very long time), so I wasn't sure where to post this question and didn't know quite what to search for. 🙂 Here's my problem:

I've recently upgraded my system, and I'm not getting quite the performance I was expecting. I was hoping you all here might be able to shed some light on my predicament. Here's my setup:

Asus P4PE mobo
P4-2.4/533 (oc'd @ 2.68/596)
Corsair XMS DDR400 (running @ 400MHz: 2-3-3-6 timing)
Chaintech Geforce4 4200/128meg (oc'd @ 290cpu/510mem)

My main concern is my 3dmark 2001se score. The highest I've been able to achieve is about 9000 (using default 3dmark test settings), and that was when things were overclocked about as high as I was comfortable with. With everything clocked down at factory levels, I get about 8300. This all seems quite low for the hardware I'm throwing at it. I was looking at 3dmark's Online Result Browser, and people with similar setups were getting as high as 13000! I know that the highest scores on the ORB are often fudged a bit, but with that in mind, shouldn't I be getting at least 10000?

I realize that a synthetic benchmark isn't always the best indicator of performance, but I've found 3dmark to be pretty decent representation. And darn it, why is everyone else getting such dramatically higher scores with similar hardware? 🙂

Thanks for your suggestions.
-joe

 

[daveybrat]

that is pretty weird. Here's my second machine's specs:

Athlon XP 1.47 o/c to 1.70GHz
256MB DDR Samsung 333
64MB Geforce3 TI500 (default, no o/c)
Gigabyte 7vkml MicroATX board

On 3dMark2001se at default settings as well as for the video card i get between 8800-9000 3dmarks. And this is with a geforce3 card.
Your system should be at 10,000 or higher. All AGP patches updated? newest nvidia drivers?

good luck 😉

 

[Budmantom]

Make sure AA is off, I had the same problem then as soon as I turned it off my score went way up.

 

[jreiter]

Yeah, newest Nvidia WHQL drivers from their site. Not sure on the motherboard-related drivers, though. I've checked out Asus's website, but there doesn't seem to be anything for WinXP. Perhaps the fact that I upgraded the mobo without reinstalling XP did it? I can't imagine why, though. It went through the long process of re-detecting everything, and it all seems to be fine. Very weird. There must be *something* in there that's messed up.
-joe

 

[Budmantom]

AA?

 

[jreiter]

Originally posted by: Budmantom
AA?

Sorry about not catching your question the first time around. I do believe AA was turned off, but now you've got me doubting myself. 🙂 I'll give it another whack when I get home from work today and see what happens. I'll make absolutely sure it's off. Probably would be a good idea to verify that anisotropic filtering is off, too. (Although I didn't change that from whatever its default is.)
-joe