Andre F Posted June 5, 2003 Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 Does anyone out there do benchmarks on there system just for the hell of it? I tried it recently with 3DMark03 and got a very low score. Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts or advice on how to raise my score and get better 3D performance out of my PC. Here are my specs: 2.0ghz 120GB HD 512mb of RDRAM ATI 9500 Pro Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris F Posted June 5, 2003 Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 I score about ~5500 in 3dMark03 with my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. This is up from ~1500 I was getting with my old GeForce4 Ti4600. The Video forums over at http://www.sharkyforums.com have a lot of people dedicated to overclocking their systems to achieve highest possible score. The easiest way to getting a better score, especially in 3dMark03, is to overclock your PC a little, or upgrade your video card. FOr reference I'm running: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ MSI KT3-Ultra ARU 1GB PC2700 DDR SDRAM ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 80GB HD Audigy 2 Platinum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainl Posted June 5, 2003 Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 Step 1. Uninstall 3DMark03. Step 2. Install an actual real-life game that has a benchmark mode. Step 3. Realise what your actual performance is like. 3DMark is great if you wanted to know how well your card works with version 1.4 pixel shaders, but there isn't a game out there that does, to my knowledge. Never underestimate the point of timedemo 1, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris F Posted June 5, 2003 Report Share Posted June 5, 2003 Install an actual real-life game that has a benchmark mode. That's the best way. Although 3dMark03 sure does look pretty when you benchmark with it. There is no game that takes advantage of all the features DX9 has right now, so your bets bet is find a game you like to play (UT2K3 for example) and use it's built in benchmarking tool to see what kind of performance you get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted June 6, 2003 Report Share Posted June 6, 2003 Here are my specs: 2.0ghz 120GB HD 512mb of RDRAM ATI 9500 Pro Thanks in advance. Put in an nVidia card to improve your 3Dmark score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whooter Posted June 6, 2003 Report Share Posted June 6, 2003 Put in an nVidia card to improve your 3Dmark score :wink: A man after my own heart. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romier S Posted June 6, 2003 Report Share Posted June 6, 2003 A man after my own heart. I think Camp is being facetious here Joel. :wink: Considering all the nonsense controversy going on with "cheating" in benchmarks leveled at both companies its useless to even bother with 3D mark anymore. I completely agree with Ian on using game benchmakrs such as Unreal 2003's and Splinter Cells benchmark utilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelley Posted June 6, 2003 Report Share Posted June 6, 2003 I'd use splinter cell, its has alot more features that stress the graphics card. We all know though that DOOM3 will be the benchmarking standard as soon as it is released. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted June 6, 2003 Report Share Posted June 6, 2003 I'd use The Sims. I won't be happy unless I get a card doing 300 FPS while I burn the neighborhood down. A man after my own heart. How you doin'? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre F Posted June 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2003 Put in an nVidia card to improve your 3Dmark score Camp, how could you say that? I was really just curious to see what my machine would score and the results seemed low. However, I refuse to overclock. I'm just to chicken for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris F Posted June 6, 2003 Report Share Posted June 6, 2003 the results seemed low Considering I used to get ~13000 in 3DMark 2001, anyones score seems low when using 3DMark03. The only way to get a decent score, say about +4000 (I think thats decent) is to have a really kick ass DX9 compliant video card. And a decent PC helps too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre F Posted June 6, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 6, 2003 I'm getting about 3,000 and I would say my PC is more than adeqoute (I listed my specs above). I feel better knowing that 4,000 is a decent score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris F Posted June 6, 2003 Report Share Posted June 6, 2003 I would say 3000 with a 9500 Pro is just about right. Highest score I've seen was ~7000 with a 9800 Pro, and a pretty beefed out and overclocked rig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camp Posted June 7, 2003 Report Share Posted June 7, 2003 However, I refuse to overclock. I'm just to chicken for that. Overclocking is no big deal (unless you really want it to be). I found it kind of fun (to a point). You learn a ton about your bios and motherboard...and really begin to respect a good mobo design and bios implementation. However, the most fun for me was the cooling. I find heatsinks to be very cool from an industrial design perspective. For a while I collected heatsinks like they were baseball cards. Fans too...I probably have 30 to 40 different fans laying around here (not counting the 8 or so in my PC). I'm glad I stopped before I got into water cooling though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre F Posted June 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 I would say 3000 with a 9500 Pro is just about right. Highest score I've seen was ~7000 with a 9800 Pro, and a pretty beefed out and overclocked rig. That's cool. I'm not so much benmarking to get the highest score possible. I just want to make sure I'm getting the most I can get out of my system. As far as overclocking, I have not even looked into it, well maybe just a little. I might do some research and play around but not until I can replace whatever I break. Time to start saving some money! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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