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Why Am I getting less than 10000 marks in 3D Mark 2001 SE??

Averaging (7300)

Specs:

P4 2.8 (800FSB)
Asus P4V800-X (VIA PT800 Chipset)
512 MB RAM PC3200
Radeon 9600 running at 423/432
Usual drives

???? is there something thats not been tweaked somewhere? Or is it that non dual channel motherboard?? Bloomin heck ive seen slower systems with radeon 9600s at stock get higher marks...

Yep Ive got all the latest drivers and all... I think I know what it is and how to solve it.

My motherboard doesnt support AGP fast writting meaning that all the graphics commands are passed from the CPU to the VPU Via RAM.Thats the culprit.

Now remember I said I couldnt overclock above 2.94Ghz... well its because my mobo only overclocks in sync mode so the ram was maxing out at 208Mhz FSB (416Mhz DDR).

So Im planning to get PC4000 RAM (Upto 250Mhz/500Mhz DDR) that will allow overclocks upto 3.5Ghz in theory, this should also have a direct effect on the graphics performance as the RAM will be running significantly faster etc...

I don't see how single channel motherboard would make much of a difference.

Got the latest drivers?

What rating is the power supply? It could be that you are trying to run too much off of it. That was the cause of a friends DVD problems.

Don't run 3D Mark with other programs running.

/ = ?

Do you have the latest motherboard and graphics card drivers installed/

I wouldn't worry, my PC gets around 5000 on average. Damn having a GeForce 4 MX 440 128MB card. Ah well, I got it beacuse it was cheap (around £30) to use instead of inbuilt graphics as they give really bad perfomance. I would make sure you have the card set to its highest levels (my GeForce 4 only gets 3000 rather than 5000 on its lowest settings; aplication rather than Aggressive). On most cards I would think you would find this in display properties under the Settings tab under the advanced button and under the tab with your cards name aplied.

Hope this helps,
S.A.

Or you could ignore the controversy over synthetic benchmarking and judge your graphics card performance to your own standard.

If your games look good, then wheres the problem.

You could try different drivers?

Why Am I getting less than 10000 marks in 3D Mark 2001 SE??

Averaging (7300)

Specs:

P4 2.8 (800FSB)
Asus P4V800-X (VIA PT800 Chipset)
512 MB RAM PC3200
Radeon 9600 running at 423/432
Usual drives

???? is there something thats not been tweaked somewhere? Or is it that non dual channel motherboard?? Bloomin heck ive seen slower systems with radeon 9600s at stock get higher marks...