POST YOUR 3DMARK 2003 SCORES HERE!!!!

[apocalypse]

Originally posted by Bigjakkstaffa
Yes i know what happens to the AGP bus when you increase the FSB, but even so an increased AGP bus does not increase the performance of the video card, read the article i linked to in the last post

I agree, overclocking the AGP port does not improve performance of the video card. It will improve throughput which can translate to better framerates depending on the game being played. Quake3 for example benefits quite a bit from an overclocked AGP port.

Originally posted by Bigjakkstaffa
Btw the a7n8x-D doesnt automatically lock the AGP, it only auto-locks the PCI, the AGP must be locked manually in the BIOS. Also, the AGP frequency and the AGP '2/4/8x' rating are unrelated AFAIK.

The A7N8X by default has the AGP port automatically locked. It has to be manually adjusted to overclock it. I have the A7N8X rev 2.0 non-Deluxe. The Deluxe version of the board may be that way.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

The A7N8X by default has the AGP port automatically locked. It has to be manually adjusted to overclock it.

Theres no poitn overclocking the AGP bus anyhows, as it does nothing whatsoever for performance, see this for futhur details:

http://www.sysopt.com/articles/AGPoverclock/index.html

--Jakk

[Tweb]

2000XP
GF FX 5900
NO OC ( All stock settings )

Each done with a defrag an fresh boot
4818 w/FW no AA
4808 no/FW no AA

Listing for 4818 w/FW no AA
Wings of Fury 127.6 fps
Battle of Proxycon 36.1 fps
Troll's Lair 28.4 fps
Mother Nature 31.5 fps
CPU test 1 36.7 fps
CPU test 2 7.2 fps
Fill rate single texturing 1359.6 MTexels/s
Fill rate Multi texuring 2835.6 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader 13.8 fps
Pixel Shader 45.9 fps
Ragtroll 17.5 fps
No sounds 24.1 fps
24 sounds 19.6 fps
60 sounds 17.3 fps

[apocalypse]

Originally posted by Bigjakkstaffa


Theres no poitn overclocking the AGP bus anyhows, as it does nothing whatsoever for performance, see this for futhur details:

http://www.sysopt.com/articles/AGPoverclock/index.html

--Jakk

I did a test and increased the AGP port speed three times. I ran 3dmark03 three times at each increase and then averaged the score. Here are the results.

66 Mhz: 4908
70 Mhz: 4913
77 Mhz: 4921

Minor increases, but increases nevertheless.

[strat1]

Originally posted by strat1
I expected more from my new Radeon 9500 Pro, but the games are SO fast - love the new card!
Both Scores are Stock and the average of 3 tests each.
XP 2000 @ 1.67
MSI KT3
Radeon 9500 Pro
2 Maxtor 40 gig 7200 rpm Raid 0+2
512 Crucial DDR2700
Antec 400 smart power
SB live MP3+
3D MARK03 2390
3D Mark01 11980

I just got 3590 after tweaking Ram Settings, new Bios and Latest Catalyst.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Minor increases, but increases nevertheless.

Minor increases that could be explained simply by standard random score fluctuations or activity of bacgroud apps. Either way, i still dont see the point in increasing the AGP bus speed which is potneitally very volatile for the sake of a negligible gain in synthetic benchmarks

--Jakk

[BullNuts]

Because their is no PC MARK 2002 benchmarking thread I'll just post it here. I think my PC MARK might be alittle low for what my system is putting out. Take a look at my specs and tell me what you think, should it be higher?

P4 OC 3.50GHz 1GHz FSB HT (2.8GHz 800MHz FSB)
GeIL 1GB PC4000 DDR500
200GB Western Digital Ultra ATA 7200RPM 8MB Cache
OCS Enhanced Radeon 9800 Pro Heat Pipe Cooling 256MB DDR AGP 8x 445/740MHz
Abit IC7-G Intel 875P Chipset Serial RAID

CPU Score: 8547
Memory Score: 11230
HD Score: 2100

It seems like I shouldv'e scored in the 10k's with my CPU... hmm is there some settings I could change to increase that?

[PhaTAzianMan]

3dmark03 results.....1211

Config

P4 2.4 (800FSB) with Hyper Threading
512 XMS Twin Corsiar Ram
Ti500 64MB (hodlign me back)
Abit IC-7 Mobo
Sound Blaster audigy x-gamer sound card

Somone tell me why my score is sooo low?

Jack

[PhaTAzianMan]

sorry to add this, but The memory is runnign in Dual channels too!!!


Jack

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Somone tell me why my score is sooo low?

You've said it youself

Geforce 3 ti500

Running this test on a card that does not have hardware support for direct X 9 specific visual features will seriously cripple your score, also the gf3 is a bit long in the tooth for the games of tomorrow

--Jakk

[spyman]

just tested my system, I know I'm a little late.

1365 3dmark2003
7356 3dmark2002


t-bird1.2@1.4
radeon8500le(64mb)@190/180
a7v133-c
512-pc133
3.6cats

[PhaTAzianMan]

Jakk - how the hell did spyman get a better score than me?!??!


Jack

[Bigjakkstaffa]

I dare say his graphics card is probably a bit faster. Mark 03 is heavily reliant on your GFX card rather than you system as a whole, as such you can have the fastest CPU in the world but unles syou have a fast gfx card you aint gonna score anything remarkable, unlike 3dmark2001 which took the whole system into account

Jack, to boost your score i suggest you try doing the following, resetting all AA AF and Vsync settings to disabled in the visual control panel, and then, overclockign the video card using the following method

http://www.sysopt.com/articles/VCOGuide/index.html

--Jakk

[PhaTAzianMan]

jakk -

Im using nvidia driver 23.11 I cna't upgrade pas this version for soem stupid reason, when i try to get 44.03, 40.72, or 45.23 It freezes on the boot screen of windows XP Professional....... May that cause some faulty inaccurate readings? And do you know if i can fix this problem

Thx Alot.......Im not that smart in comptuers

Jack

[Ammok]

Phat, Allgamer had this theory which i can find sensible, but don't know the truth of,

2...... is for g2 series really

3...... is for the g3

4...... is for the g4

but i found the 23.11 was the best for my old g2mx.