why is my 3d mark score so low?

The_Bullman

just finished testing my pc using 3dmark 2001se and got a disapointing 8231 3D marks

i was expecting between 10 and 11 thousand marks

my system is:
athlon 1900xp
abit kt7a
1gig of ram
NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4600

running on windows 2k. I have the latest display drivers and i had to downgrade on the 4in1 drivers as it was crashing my system


would the sdram be killing my score or is something else horribly wrong?

suggestions appreciated

PPC

What version of the graphics drivers do you have?
try www.guru3d.com for the latest drivers.

Kali

Its a whole four threads down:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=66407

Read through that.. should give you a few ideas.

The_Bullman

sorry about that..

i never thought to check

STaN

your getting about level of a GF4 ti4200 so maybe its the drivers:

heres a good benchmark for:

AMD AthlonXP 2000+
ASUS A7V266-E
VIA KT266A
133 MHz FSB
256MB PC-266 MHz RAM CL2 (2x128MB)
Drivers & Software
DirectX Version 8.1
OS Windows XP Professional

The_Bullman

i have the fsb running at 133Mhz

i have the latest NVIDIA display drivers

i have the latest direct x installed

would sd ram affect the score by so much. Any benchmark that i have seen has been done on ddr ram. I am going to update to that but the funds are low at the moment.

I had a look at the other thread that kali mentioned but again it was ddr that was used there.

Mordeth seemed to be having a similar problem does anyone know if he got it sorted? or did he use sdram

STaN

well seen as your not scoring TOO low, its still a really good score.

I'd put it down to the sd-ram. 256 ddr is about 90eur at the moment. Make sure you get the correct type for your mother board.

Kali

I'd put it down to the sd-ram. 256 ddr is about 90eur at the moment. Make sure you get the correct type for your mother board

That motherboard (KT7A) will only take SDRAM afaik...

RicardoSmith

oops wrong thread ignore....

Stonemason

My own machine and scored(no tweaking yet) as below

3DMARK 2001 SE =10302

PCMARK2002 =CPU 5065
MEM 3471
HDD 531

Basic Setup is

AMD XP 2100
Asus A7V333
MEM 512mb PC2700 DDR
GF4 4200 128MB
XP PRO
res 1024x768

Kix

Originally posted by STaN
your getting about level of a GF4 ti4200 so maybe its the drivers:

heres a good benchmark for:

AMD AthlonXP 2000+
ASUS A7V266-E
VIA KT266A
133 MHz FSB
256MB PC-266 MHz RAM CL2 (2x128MB)
Drivers & Software
DirectX Version 8.1
OS Windows XP Professional

Crikey. I have a GF2 Pro on an XP2000+/MSI KT3 Ultra with 256MB of PC2700 (CL2.5) and I'm getting 6103 in 3DMark2001. That's a lot better than the 4743 from the Tom's benchmark.

Is the faster mobo and RAM making that much of a difference?

K

RicardoSmith

you might like to look at some of the scores I was getting...


3D Mark 2001(SE I think) (1024x768 32bit colour)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Axia 1ghz (133/100fsb) + GF2Ti450 (451/250) = 3768
Axia 1ghz at 1.4ghz (140x10) + GF2Ti450 (451/250) = 4432
Axia 1ghz at 1.4ghz (140x10) + GF2Ti450 (481/275) = 4577
Axia 1ghz (133/100fsb) + GF4Ti4200 (default) = 6578
Axia 1ghz at 1.33ghz (133x10) + GF4Ti4200 (default) = 7452
Axia 1ghz at 1.4ghz (140x10) + GF4Ti4200 (default) = 7696

P4 1.6a at 1.6ghz (100fsb) + GF4Ti4200 (default) = 8241
P4 1.6a at 2.0ghz (125fsb) + GF4Ti4200 (default) = 9312
P4 1.8a at 2.4ghz (133fsb) + GF4Ti4200 (default) = 9699
DDR P4 16a@2.1 + GF4Ti4200 (300/550) = 10297

STaN

faster mobo, ram and drivers are also important