x850xt 3dmark results low?

[Eureka]

Okay, I'm using an ATi X850XT with Catalyst 5.13 on a 2.6ghz p4, 1GB 2700 RAM, 420w Aspire PSU. I just ran 3dmark05 and got 4791... now isn't that a little too low?

Norm

 

[Crescent13]

no. thats perfect, mainly because you have a 2.6ghz P4, and the biggest performance killer, PC2700 Ram.

 

[Eureka]

Now that is a hard hit... so I go from a supposed 7000 (with benches) to a lowly 4700 .

At least I can play DODS in 1600x1200 now.

Norm

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: cevilgenius
Now that is a hard hit... so I go from a supposed 7000 (with benches) to a lowly 4700 .

At least I can play DODS in 1600x1200 now.

Norm

You need AMD

 

[v8envy]

Make sure your 3dmark05 did not also run CPU tests. A haircut from ~6200 3dmarks to 4700 is a bit too extreme even for a memory hungry CPU like the P4 paired with PC2700. 3dmark is not THAT cpu sensitive.

If you disable the CPU tests, expect at least a mid to upper 5k 3dmark, unless something else is wrong -- heat or power throttling. Make sure you got fast writes off in the BIOS, and a 128M AGP apperture.

 

[Eureka]

Okay, I did it on all default settings, with just the 3 video tests. I got a score of 4775. I'll turn off fast writes and use 128M AGP now, if it's not that I think it might be the cheap power supply I'm using... I might try using my older 300w PSU which was more reliable.

Norm

 

[Eureka]

Turned off Fast Writes, AGP Write, and PCI Write... got 4772. I'm beginning to think it's the power supply.

EDIT: How do I change the aperature?

Norm

 

[Conky]

You change the aperature in the Bios.

You might also want to make sure that you hav turned off all unnessecary programs too like your anti-virus, Zone alarm, MBM5, etc. before you run the benchmark.

 

[Rottie]

I thought my 3dmark05 score 5575 is too LOW!!!!

 

[Munky]

Go to your display control panel, and under 3d settings reset everything to default.

 

[Rottie]

I don't use Catalyst because it takes a lot of hard drive space.

 

[Skott]

Just as a reference for comparison the X850XT on THG VGA listing in 3DMark 2005 v1.1 recieved:

1024x768 No AA/AF = 6098
1024x768 4X AA/8X AF = 5050
1600x1200 4X AA/8X AF = 3367

Using the following setup:
CPU AMD Athlon64 4000+
FSB 200MHz
Motherboard MSI K8N Neo2 (nForce 3 Ultra)
Memory 2x Corsair CMX-512-3200C2, 1024MB
HDD Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 120GB S-ATA (8MB)
DVD Hitachi GD-7000
LAN Netgear FA-312
Power Supply Antec True Control 550W (ATX 1.0)
Drivers & Configuration
Graphics ATI Catalyst v5.06
NVIDIA v71.98
Chipset NVIDIA nForce4 Standalone v6.53
OS Windows XP Prof. SP1a
DirectX DirectX 9.0c

 

[Munky]

Originally posted by: Rottie
I don't use Catalyst because it takes a lot of hard drive space.

Then download and install Ati Tray Tools. It's a small program, and it has a lot of tweaks and settings, including all the ones available in the control panel. It might not help anyways if the P4 is bottlenecking, but it's worth a try.

 

[Rottie]

Originally posted by: munky

Originally posted by: Rottie
I don't use Catalyst because it takes a lot of hard drive space.

Then download and install Ati Tray Tools. It's a small program, and it has a lot of tweaks and settings, including all the ones available in the control panel. It might not help anyways if the P4 is bottlenecking, but it's worth a try.

ok I will check it out.

 

[Mloot]

Yeah, definitely run the bench after turning off Zonealarm. When I run benches, I found that if Zonealarm is running also, it lowers my scores by about 10% or so.

 

[apoppin]

something is WRONG . . . your cpu doesn't make that much difference . . .mine at 2.8Ghz is only a bit lower than at 3.3

what Cats are you using? EDIT: the CCC that goes with Cat 5.13 is messed up

my x850xt does 6100 stock and 6537 o/c'd to PE levels

disable all your running programs including antivirus and make sure nothing is "forced"

 

[Powermoloch]

5.13 catalysts helped out with my score...my setup

3100+ sempron "paris" (2.069ghz)
2 x 512 mb Pqi value ram @ 230mhz 3-3-3-8
x850xt AGP stock

6140 points on 3dmark05

 

[kknd1967]

at default low res low quality, 3DMark05 score is still sensitive to CPU, i.e., somehow highly CPU limited
as your increase the res/quality level, the scores of the same X850XT with different CPUs will converge

you here only got about 70% of your "target score" (from THG maybe). try 1600x1200 with aa/af turned, you should get something around 90%.

Originally posted by: cevilgenius
Okay, I'm using an ATi X850XT with Catalyst 5.13 on a 2.6ghz p4, 1GB 2700 RAM, 420w Aspire PSU. I just ran 3dmark05 and got 4791... now isn't that a little too low?

Norm

 

[Rottie]

My bad...my card is really Pro version not XT so I assume the 5575 is the average score for X850 Pro?

 

[Cooler]

6900 on my oc PE card here.

 

[gac009]

i get whats in my sig with my x800pro oc'd, so thats pretty good.

 

[kknd1967]

Turning off the fast write option gave me almost 15% more score in 3DMark05.
Isn't Fast Write supposed to improve AGP performance? So confused.
Is there any other benefit if I keep this option on?