Need some feedback on my video card performance....I recently "upgraded" (go ahead and laugh but I am not a gamer) to a Radeon 7000 32 meg AGP vid card. The pertinent parts of my overall system is as follows:
Athlon 1900+ (Palomino)
ECS K7S5A (version 1.X)
512 megs PC2700 RAM
Windows XP with Service Pack 2
After updating to the newest SIS AGP drivers for my board and the newest ATI Catalyst drivers for the card I ran 3DMark2001SE twice. My scores were 738 and 739......huh? 738 & 739? That seemed really low for the older benchmark. I checked the Futuremark site for similar configurations and lo and behold the range most people reported with a similar speed Athlon and same vid card was anywhere from ~1300 up to 2800. Sheesh...I am barely half as fast as the bottom end reported score? What am I missing?
Athlon 1900+ (Palomino)
ECS K7S5A (version 1.X)
512 megs PC2700 RAM
Windows XP with Service Pack 2
After updating to the newest SIS AGP drivers for my board and the newest ATI Catalyst drivers for the card I ran 3DMark2001SE twice. My scores were 738 and 739......huh? 738 & 739? That seemed really low for the older benchmark. I checked the Futuremark site for similar configurations and lo and behold the range most people reported with a similar speed Athlon and same vid card was anywhere from ~1300 up to 2800. Sheesh...I am barely half as fast as the bottom end reported score? What am I missing?