Soyo Dragon 1800 3D marks results

[SFVR6]

3DMark Result 6523 3D marks
CPU Speed 429 CPU 3D marks

Is this fast? This is at default settings with a Radeon 8500.

 

[sygyzy]

Your numbers should be much higher. A brief look a few days ago at Mad Onion's page showed that the 8500 was king. I score something like 8450 with a Ti 200 and XP 1800. Both are overclocked though. Regardless, it seems that yours should be at least 8000.

 

[SFVR6]

You mean I should be seeing 8000 with O'cing? what should I be if I want a stable non O'cing system?

My FSB is set to 100mhz right now can I up that to 133?

not sure how/what I should be tweaking for better performance while still being stable.

Also my chip has the factory Heatsink/fan so I don't want to have to get more equipment.

 

[Triggerhappy007]

If you're running at 100MHz FSB, then your processor is only running at 1150MHz. If you have pc133 or pc2100 RAM change it to 133. That's the default speed of your processor. You won't loose any instablity because everything will be set a different divider.

 

[SpeedTester]

Yes your score should be much higher. Somewhere from 8100-9000. Like trigger said
your running at 1150mhz. You probally havent done any bios tweaks which will also boost your score.
I think someone has a Soyo Setup page posted here I'll see if I can find it.

 

[Mustanggt]

I agree you should be in the 8000-9000 range, need to be using the latest drivers for that 8500?? ang go through bios and find best settings, and of couse up that FSB to 133 or higher. I get 8650 3d mark with XP1600 and 8500 radeon

 

[SFVR6]

hehe ok I bumped up my FSB and I got a 8018!!!

wow what a difference!!!

 

[Daovonnaex]

<< Your numbers should be much higher. A brief look a few days ago at Mad Onion's page showed that the 8500 was king. I score something like 8450 with a Ti 200 and XP 1800. Both are overclocked though. Regardless, it seems that yours should be at least 8000. >>

Buying graphics cards just for 3DMark scores is a pretty terrible idea...