My 3DMarkSE score

[Dan666]

I have just perfromed 3Dmark on my new rig (as below) and have scored 4105, What do you guys think? I know the graphics card isnt the best but I was on a budget.

What sort of improvcments would I say if I put something like a NVidia 5700 or 9600 in my comp?

When I set the benchmark to max everything I get 784 is this normal?

Thanks all :)

[calnen]

I'm assuming this is on 3dmark 2001se?

To be blunt, the rest of your system allows for a *much* higher score than that - your graphics card is really holding you back in a big way. I you have the money available (and feel that you play games enough to warrant it) then an upgrade to a 9600pro (for example), which you can now buy for around £100 online would at least double the performance of your machine in games and benchmarks.
If you couldnt afford that, then a second hand geforce4 ti (4200, 4400, 4600 or 4800se) would be a lot cheaper (£45-70 for the makes above, with increasing numbers being better so with higher prices) and would also hugely increase gaming performance.

[Forthy]

4105 on 2001?

Surely it's 2003 :confused:

If so, I'd say that's your max on a 9200.

[Proplus]

Originally posted by Forthy
4105 on 2001?

Surely it's 2003 :confused:

If so, I'd say that's your max on a 9200.

Doubt it, I'm sure the 9200 isn't DX9 compliant, and if not, on 2003, you're only looking at getting scores of around 1000-1500.

[slartiBardfarst]

all ati 9*** cards are directx9.

[RobUK]

No, 9200's are 8.1 only, I remeber reading it on a website somewhere or maybe on a box in a shop.

I would have to agree with everyone else mate, Your card is holding the system back, Being an ATI man I'd say go for a 9600pro, best thing to do is checkout the bemchmark scores on say www.tomshardware.com for the sort of games you play and go from there

Hope that helps a little :)

[slartiBardfarst]

Originally posted by RobUK
No, 9200's are 8.1 only, I remeber reading it on a website somewhere or maybe on a box in a shop.
quite right, i stand corrected :)

[RobUK]

No worries mate :)

Couldnt Dan666 have a play about with something like Rage3D and see if can can 'clock' some more perfromance from his card. It wont make it a 9600 but I think it could help his benchmark scores coudnt it?

[calnen]

he could, but if he's overclocking then he could do for to the cpu as well, and the ram - the graphics would still be the thing holding the system back.

[RobUK]

Yeah I suppose your right, Theres so much about in the market at such diiferent prices that a noob (no offence Dann666) can quite easily get really confussed on what will work well with what and h0ow to baance a system so theres a good match between all components and nothing bottlenecking or indeed overpowering the rest of the set up.

I think the best thing to do mate is get saving and biuy yourself a lovelly new 9600pro (allthough dont discount Nvidia, I'm just an ATI man born and raised :D)
Let us now how you get on mate

[TheFallenAngel]

to be honest you can get a 9800 pro for about 160 quid now, better going with that.

[bleecher]

9200 are pretty crap and they are only 8.1. the 3damrk does sound right for the card -becasue i built a very similar system for a friend, but we got just under 7,000 3dmarks with it. id recommend as mention above either a 9600 or 9800, cause then ur system would fly

[Lister]

i got a 9800 for 130inc p&p when i install it does say its a pro but no where on box/site does it say pro

[bleecher]

listy check ur clock speeds, using either 3dmark or rage3d -them PM them 2 me and il tell u what card u have

[Lister]

not even installed yet :)

did have it in but was being bit "odd" so removed since didnt have time to muck about with it at that time

think it might be psu problem

since only 300watt and have kinda lot of hardware in pc just now :)

when push comes to shove m8 is lot better than my gf3 ti200 so dont really care how fast it is :)

[bleecher]

/me slaps lister in the wrist

im pretty sure i mentioned that some time earlier :)

by being funny did you mean instant restarts and regular lock-ups with it not shutting down properly?

[Lister]

was installing driver and reboots also sometime would not start up

need pc working most of time since have 1000's of jobs to on it in a day :)

[bleecher]

yeah psu problem