OT: 3DMARK03 Is Out

But, now I know something is wrong with my system, only scored a 1976. running on a P4 2.53 1GIG PC800 120gig HD Ti4600 Audigy 2 Windows XP I just don't understand why this system does not run faster. I have the latest drivers I can find for everything.

"Morris Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> But, now I know something is wrong with my system, only scored a 1976. > running on a > > P4 2.53 > 1GIG PC800 > 120gig HD > Ti4600 > Audigy 2 > Windows XP > > I just don't understand why this system does not run faster. I have the > latest drivers I can find for everything.

I posted this to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia... "If you dont have a Radeon 9500 - 9700, or GF FX, then you dont have full DX9 hardware and you wont see the Mother Nature Game Test, or the Elephant test. As a result ( the actual score only considers the 4 game tests) - without proper DX9 hardware - you'll SERIOUSLY struggle to beat 2000. for example. 1.4G P4 with 9700 pro - 4133 Athlon 2200 with Ti4600 - 1663 Doug "

"Morris Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]:

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> But, now I know something is wrong with my system, only scored a 1976. > running on a > > P4 2.53 > 1GIG PC800 > 120gig HD > Ti4600 > Audigy 2 > Windows XP > > I just don't understand why this system does not run faster. I have the > latest drivers I can find for everything. > > >

Morris DON'T compare a new benchmark number with an old benchmark number. If you could get near 10,000 in the 2002 madonion tests, it doesn't mean you will see similar numbers with the new one. Mad Onion rescales the numbers for each new benchmark version. Thisway we don't have to compare scores like 2bazillion which some systems could probably get with the original Madonion suite. Look at systems similar to yours, that use the new benchmark,and then decide if you have a pig. Remember, many benchmarkers tweek their systems waaaay outta wack to get good results. I would never use the settings many of these super fast benchmarkers do,...your picture quality would be so fuzzy you couldn't tell if Jeff Gordon or Mark Martin hit you. dave henrie

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 03:19:07 GMT, Dave Henrie <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>"Morris Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote in >news:[email hidden]: > >> But, now I know something is wrong with my system, only scored a 1976. >> running on a >> >> P4 2.53 >> 1GIG PC800 >> 120gig HD >> Ti4600 >> Audigy 2 >> Windows XP >> >> I just don't understand why this system does not run faster. I have the >> latest drivers I can find for everything. >> >> >> > > Morris DON'T compare a new benchmark number with an old benchmark >number. If you could get near 10,000 in the 2002 madonion tests, it >doesn't mean you will see similar numbers with the new one. Mad Onion >rescales the numbers for each new benchmark version. Thisway we don't have >to compare scores like 2bazillion which some systems could probably get >with the original Madonion suite. > Look at systems similar to yours, that use the new benchmark,and then >decide if you have a pig. Remember, many benchmarkers tweek their systems >waaaay outta wack to get good results. I would never use the settings many >of these super fast benchmarkers do,...your picture quality would be so >fuzzy you couldn't tell if Jeff Gordon or Mark Martin hit you. >dave henrie

Also bear in mind that most people aren't mentioning what their D3D visual quality settings are, aside from resolution and color depth. Just for example, with my normal settings of 16x Anistropic and everything cranked to high quality levels but with no FSAA, I got a 3555, but when I turn off anistropic and turn everything to performance settings, I get up to 4597, so that's a pretty good spread and not something that's reported on the score submissions. P4 2.2 1Gig PC800 Radeon 9700 Pro SB Live Win XP -John

Worry about it when DX9 games hit the shelves. That'll be about a year or two... On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 20:19:51 -0600, "Morris Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote something like this:

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>But, now I know something is wrong with my system, only scored a 1976. >running on a > >P4 2.53 >1GIG PC800 >120gig HD >Ti4600 >Audigy 2 >Windows XP > >I just don't understand why this system does not run faster. I have the >latest drivers I can find for everything.

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Getting it is the trick :) I waited for 195 minutes for my download on FileShack. Larry "Morris Jones" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> But, now I know something is wrong with my system, only scored a 1976. > running on a > > P4 2.53 > 1GIG PC800 > 120gig HD > Ti4600 > Audigy 2 > Windows XP > > I just don't understand why this system does not run faster. I have the > latest drivers I can find for everything. > >

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:19:49 GMT, "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote something like this: >Getting it is the trick :) I waited for 195 minutes for my download on >FileShack. Yeah, but downloading it is worth it, right? Atleast I got to see the all those greyed-out buttons after numerous messages about my graphics card not supporting this and that... isn't Voodoo 5 a DX7 card (which seems to be the minimum spec of 3dm03) ?-) -- - JKo -

Jussi Koukku <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]:

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> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:19:49 GMT, "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote > something like this: > >>Getting it is the trick :) I waited for 195 minutes for my download on >>FileShack. > > Yeah, but downloading it is worth it, right? Atleast I got to see the > all those greyed-out buttons after numerous messages about my graphics > card not supporting this and that... isn't Voodoo 5 a DX7 card (which > seems to be the minimum spec of 3dm03) ?-) > -- > - JKo - >

V5 users should stick with the 3dmark2001. Even last year's 3dmark was not a good yardstick(meterstick for our Friends overseas) for V5 performnce. dave henrie

VooDoo Card? You're lucky it launched :) Larry "Jussi Koukku" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 18:19:49 GMT, "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote > something like this: > > >Getting it is the trick :) I waited for 195 minutes for my download on > >FileShack. > > Yeah, but downloading it is worth it, right? Atleast I got to see the > all those greyed-out buttons after numerous messages about my graphics > card not supporting this and that... isn't Voodoo 5 a DX7 card (which > seems to be the minimum spec of 3dm03) ?-) > -- > - JKo -

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 18:10:20 GMT, "Larry" <[email hidden]> wrote something like this: >VooDoo Card? > >You're lucky it launched :) LOL, yeah =) Apparently V5 isn't a DX7 card as it's missing some DX7 features... it's also missing some DX6 features also, not to mention proper driver support... ;-) Oh well, back to GPL'ing @ 1600x1200, although it does bog down to horrible 32fps at the back of the grid :-P -- - JKo -