Score seems pretty low?

been a long while since i upgraded anything in my system and after searching high and low for the best band for your buck video card i came to the conclusion the ti4200 is the one since it's pretty much on par with the fx5600 with all the goodies turned off, so i ordered one....either something is seriously amiss with my system or the card blows, i'd like to think it's my system.

system: T-bred A @ 1800mhz
768meg ram on 150mhz fsb
soyo dragon platinum kt333
WD 80 gig, 200 gig
MSI Geforce4 TI4200 64meg not OC'd yet (was running geforce2 mx400 64meg)
sb live value
using onboard nic
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3Dmark 2003
score: 1757
wings of fury: 116.6 FPS
battle of proxycon: 10.8FPS (***?)
trolls lair: 10.8FPS (again ***?)
cpu test 1: 41.4 fps
cpu test 2: 8.0 fps
fill rate single texturing: 674.3 m/texels
multi-texturing: 1736 m/texels
vertex shader: 5.1 fps
ragtroll: 5.9 fps

didnt run sound tests... is this about right? i'm starting to wonder what the fx5900 ultra would run.

The TI 4200 is not a DX9 card and will not do good numbers on 3dmark03. Your score is right where it should be for that card.

wow thats weak, alright thanks man...i hear the fx series isn't REALLY directx 9 either though, anyhow now i get 1965 after overclocking it to 300/590... this is all at 800x600 btw. i have a new board and a barton 2500 on the way so maybe it will be a little better after that, who knows...not what i was expecting, not much improvement over the geforce2 mx IMO

Well first you need to set 3dmark03 to default res which is 1024 X 768. With your res set to 800 X 600 you're getting a high score, but it really isn't giving you a true score. Everybody benches at 1024 X 768. Second, a new CPU and MB aren't gonna help you out a whole lot. 3dmark03 was designed to test the video card and not the rest of the system. Run your rig on 3dmark2001 and that will give you a better idea of how your rig performs. 3dmark2001 will test your whole system and it's also a DX8 benchmark.

tried, it said it needed directx 8.1 installed and i have 9.0b...should do it but i guess not?

Update your 3dMark01 with patch 330

uninstall 3dmark2001 and reinstall. That should fix your problem. I have DX9B and I can run either.

did, and installed the patch and it works... heres what i came up with, seems normal, maybe some tweaking can boost it... everything default on the test except i didnt do the image quality test thing. i doubt my new board with 8x agp will help at all, heard that is doesnt do much of anything over 4x

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP

DirectX Version 9.0


Mobo Manufacturer

Mobo Model VT8367-8233A

AGP Rates (Current/Available) 4x / 1x 2x 4x


CPU Unknown 1802 MHz

FSB 150 MHz

Memory 768 MB

Graphics Chipset NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200

Driver Name NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200

Driver Version 6.14.10.4523

Video Memory 64 MB


Program Version 3DMark2001 SE

Resolution 1024x768 32bit

Texture Format Compressed

FSAA Disabled

Z-Buffer Depth 24bit

Frame Buffer Double

Rendering Pipeline D3D Pure Hardware T&L



Detailed Test Results
3DMark Score 9537 3D marks


Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 128.3 FPS

Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 44.7 FPS

Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 186.7 FPS

Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 105.4 FPS

Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 118.8 FPS

Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 52.8 FPS

Game 4 Nature 57.0 FPS

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 1044.3 MTexels/s

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 2306.8 MTexels/s

High Polygon Count (1 light) 50.9 MTriangels/s

High Polygon Count (8 lights) 12.6 MTriangels/s

Environment Bump Mapping 160.9 FPS

DOT3 Bump Mapping 128.5 FPS

Vertex Shader 97.7 FPS

Pixel Shader 121.1 FPS

Advanced Pixel Shader 86.1 FPS

Point Sprite 30.4 MSprites/s

kept bumping the clock up more and more and the score goes down like 30 to 40 points for every 10mhz in bump for either core or mem, at 300/610 i got 10398 and at 310/635 it was 10230 why?