What's my bottleneck?

[Zim Hosein]

I just ran 3DMark2001SE & got a score of 3947 Is it my video card? My rig is my my sig, thanks for any help

 

[Rand]

Graphics card is definitely the bottleneck. 3DM2001 is a little unrealistic when comparing a DX7 board to a DX8 board in gaming performance as it doesnt allow the DX7 board to run all of the gaming tests which contribute to the final score, so it's somewhat unfairly penialized.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Thanks for the response Rand, I plan on upgrading my video card in the future, but not just yet as it runs all the games I currently play w/o any problems. I didn't realize that my board was a DX7 only board, but since you made your post, I did noticed that the benchmark program did skip over some of the tests

 

[Mark0999]

If you are happy with the game play you get then there is really no reason to upgrade.

 

[JeremiahTheGreat]

3DMark, the worlds most ingenious marketing tool..