why do p'3 kick athlon A** in 3dmark?

Taylorm

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HMM I just ran the 3dmark, and looked under the cpu results thingy and it shows pentium 800, 866 and pentium 1000 all outperform my athlon. what is the deal yo
 

Argo

Lifer
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Not really. I get 7500 with t-bird 800@927 and GTS 210/370. Haven't seen too many p3 systems getting more.
 

Viper GTS

Lifer
Oct 13, 1999
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No, he's most likely looking at 3DMarks. My P3/GF2 got 7588 the last time I checked.

Viper GTS
 

Taylorm

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oh my god. something is wrong with my system then i only got 5123 3dmarks. HELP !!!

DO i need to optimize some settings in my bios? Cuz they are all default except i maxed out the ram settings.

any suggestions?
 

xtreme2k

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5.1k 3dmark is NORMAL for a GF DDR!!!

what are you worrying?

you only get 6k+ 3dmark if you have a G2/GTS