what kind of 3dmark2001 scores should i expect from...??

[saltedeggman]

tbird 1.4 266mhz running @ 1.33ghz (due to high temps)
512mb samsung running at conservative setting (i.e. 2t, cas2)
Geforce MX 400 64mb
kt266 chipset based mobo

The reason i am asking because i am getting 2150 3dmarks

 

[igowerf]

2150 is low for your system. EDIT: I just remembered that my Celeron 566@892, Asus P3V4X, 256MB Crucial, and GeForce DDR was able to get 2100 without overclocking the video card.

My system is pretty similar to yours:
TBird 1.4@1.4
256MB Crucial (Set to Ultra-2-3-6 in the BIOS. These are the fastest that the K7S5a offers.)
GeForce DDR 32mb
SiS735

I think my default settings score was around 2800. With a little tweaking and overclocking, I got it up to 3400.

I assume you have the 4in1's installed. If you didn't, your score would be much lower. What OS are you running? Did you just recently install the video card? My friend upgraded to a GeForce 2 MX from a Diamond Viper II but his 3Dm2k1 score was really low for his system. A clean install of Windows fixed the problem.

 

[saltedeggman]

I am running XP Pro, and I did install 4in1 drivers...its been in my rig for long, just didn't try to benchmark using 3dmark

 

[saltedeggman]

33

 

[Duvie]

I would think not knowing what kind of hdd's you are using or the last time you defragged or reformatted...you should be in the 3000's

My radeon 32mb ddr which is comparable to your mx400 (IMO) with my tbird 1.1 at 1.2ghz was scoring 3200's

My geforce 2 pro 225/450, with 1.4ghz@1.5ghz tbird, ecs k7s5a, 512mb crucial pc2100 (cas 2, ultra) and detonators 22.40 gets just at 5000...

 

[saltedeggman]

Now I switch my ATI radeon 64mb DDR (OEM 166mhz) to my AMD system...
however, i am only getting 3000's with this setup...

I already installed newest via 4in1
I already install the latest drivers from www.ati.com

I thought I can get higher than 3000's, right?

 

[fatbaby]

<< Now I switch my ATI radeon 64mb DDR (OEM 166mhz) to my AMD system...
however, i am only getting 3000's with this setup...

I already installed newest via 4in1
I already install the latest drivers from www.ati.com

I thought I can get higher than 3000's, right? >>



Its probably your vid card doing poorly on AA.
I run a p3 600 mhz and got 1700 3dmarks w/a gf256!

 

[saltedeggman]

anyone??

 

[Mustanggt]

I was only getting around 3000 with my AIW radeon and the MX 400 is inferior to the radeon so your about right maybey 2500 you should be at.

 

[saltedeggman]

??

 

[ZzB]

I seem to remember that my old rig pulled in around 2500-3000 marks and that was...

1.4ghz Tbird
KT7a
798mb generic ram
GF2 MX
+the boring bits which you really don't need to know about.

Save up for a Ti200 (you can probably expect 6000-7000 marks)

 

[steimm]

Duvie: How can it effect the score if you don't have defragged the drive (is it the drive that you have 3DMark2001 installed on or is it the drive that has the OS?) in a long time?
/steimm

 

[Yoshitoshi]

Sounds like configuration problems to me.

Use the latest NVidia Detonator reference drivers.

Turn off all FSAA (Anti-aliasing) in your driver options.
Make sure your 4x AGP and Fast AGP Writes are enabled in your BIOS (don't do this whilst overclocked though), if your vid card supports it.

btw.. conservative settings for memory are 3t and CAS3, the number being the precharge and latency time for column scanning of your memory. Hell if it runs at 2 leave it there! - it makes no difference unless your pushing your FSB.

Useful utilities for experimenting and tweaking are WPCREDIT and Geforce Tweak Utility.

Overclocking your GeForce past a certain point will actually have a negative effect on your 3DMark score. Guess it can only do so much. I've experienced this even though I modded my Hercules Prophet II 64 GTS with a Crystal Orb and some RAM sinks.

My scores with a Athlon 1.33 @ 1.53 are around the 4200 mark, so I guess you should be getting at least 3000.

Hope that helps. Yoshi.

 

[Xenon14]

register at theonion.com they have average scores for various systems. Personally, my system got above the average (for a similar system setup) I have a K71.33, 256mb ddr, epox 8k7a, ati radeon 64 ddr vivo (retail 183) I got 3383 in 3dmark2001

 

[steimm]

Surely sounds like something is wrong with the settings...
With my old stuff (PIII700@933, BX-motherboard, GF2MX (lousy memories only 143MHz), 256MB org RAM, WinMe, DX8.0, Drivers 21.83) I got 2481 points in 3DMark2001.

Make sure you tweak a little more:
Turn off Vsync for both Direct3D and OpenGL
Run with higher bus (FSB) instead of higher multiplier, run with the most stable settings and FSB=133MHz

Then o/c the board as much as possible!

/steimm