3dmark is owning me....

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10-22-2003, 09:51 PM
melee

3dmark is owning me....

Ok, I fell into this Thunderbird1ghz style wave, and started to see how high I could get my PC.

Last time I tried I got around 13k (cant remember exact, neer saved)

So first I fired it up under totally stock settings...

Score: 11393

Then I ran it totally O/c'ed, P4 @ 3.01ghz (bus=158mhz, vcore=1.65) and my 4400 @ 300/650 (4600 stock settings)

Score: 11960!!!

Ok, thats messed up. 500mhz more power and a difference in card speed that =$100...

so I tried some other drivers... (first time around I was using 40.72)

while still under o/c:
Score: 11842
44.03 drivers
Score: 11256
4523 drivers

...
what am I doing wrong?

oh well my lappy still only gets half that.
10-22-2003, 09:52 PM
Ignitionator

These scores are really bad... You should be at like 14k with that CPU and vid card... :confused:
10-22-2003, 09:56 PM
lonewolfroger

melee, are you running with aa/af turned off, vsync turned to always off and also under the performance and quality section do you have the slider turned to performance..
10-22-2003, 10:18 PM
Thunderbird1GHz

your cpu is a bottleneck. its not even a p4c and thus does not use 200fsb so I can see why the low score. a faster cpu, should you choose when the time is right, would greatly increase your score. I shall wait for an a64 then 20k is mine :D
10-22-2003, 10:24 PM
Ignitionator

Quote:

Originally posted by Thunderbird1GHz
your cpu is a bottleneck. its not even a p4c and thus does not use 200fsb so I can see why the low score. a faster cpu, should you choose when the time is right, would greatly increase your score. I shall wait for an a64 then 20k is mine :D

bottleneck my ***,
and you'll get the AMD64 when I'll get a space ship.
10-22-2003, 10:31 PM
Stocky007

Quote:

Originally posted by Ignitionator
bottleneck my ***,
and you'll get the AMD64 when I'll get a space ship.

LMAO ROFL...**** man you made me spill my pop on my keyboard!:D
10-22-2003, 10:33 PM
ranger2992

Quote:

Originally posted by Thunderbird1GHz
your cpu is a bottleneck. its not even a p4c and thus does not use 200fsb so I can see why the low score. a faster cpu, should you choose when the time is right, would greatly increase your score. I shall wait for an a64 then 20k is mine :D

Since when is a Pentium 4 CPU at 3 Ghz a bottleneck Tbird??

Ok Melee, as Lonewolfroger said you need to look at all of your VC performance settings. Also make sure you don't have a bunch of other apps running when you do 3dmark. What are your ram timings? IMO you just need to go step by step and tune your system up for 3dmarks. I would suggest you start with Pyro's guide(link below) Once you have done all you can from that guide, start asking for some more specific tweaks. I would also contact Colossus on this forum. He is a senior member, has a P4 rig with a TI4400 and will be able to offer you some good advice. You should be able to hit 14K with that setup, I know I did when I had my P4 2.53 and leadtek TI4400, This score was done when I knew almost nothing about tweaking and my card was barely overclocked http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=6541536

The Link for Pyro's guide
http://www.sharkyforums.com/showthre...hreadid=184058
10-22-2003, 10:37 PM
icecube_of_death

Quote:

Originally posted by Thunderbird1GHz
your cpu is a bottleneck. its not even a p4c and thus does not use 200fsb so I can see why the low score. a faster cpu, should you choose when the time is right, would greatly increase your score. I shall wait for an a64 then 20k is mine :D

FYI There are no ti4200 that broke 20k yet, all those 20k+ scores are ti4800se with a flashed bios

This is the highest ti4200 score
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7139439
And its an albatron turbo
10-22-2003, 10:38 PM
Ignitionator

Quote:

Originally posted by Stocky007
LMAO ROFL...**** man you made me spill my pop on my keyboard!:D

:D :D :D
10-22-2003, 10:45 PM
Stocky007

Quote:

Originally posted by Ignitionator
:D :D :D

What you said is true though, I just loved that spaceship comment!:D
10-22-2003, 10:51 PM
BlueChair

Yeah...I'd have to agree that the cpu is not the bottleneck...that VC is aging...
10-22-2003, 10:54 PM
Alientank

Quote:

Originally posted by Ignitionator
bottleneck my ***,
and you'll get the AMD64 when I'll get a space ship.

So true...so true, bend over Tbird, you just got owned https://www.sharkyforums.com/
10-22-2003, 10:58 PM
Ignitionator

Quote:

Originally posted by Alientank
So true...so true, bend over Tbird, you just got owned https://www.sharkyforums.com/

lmao!! :D:D
10-23-2003, 01:40 AM
vairox

Quote:

Originally posted by icecube_of_death
FYI There are no ti4200 that broke 20k yet, all those 20k+ scores are ti4800se with a flashed bios

This is the highest ti4200 score
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7139439
And its an albatron turbo

so they flash a 4800se (4400 really) to a 4200 then overclock it or
w t f?

as for that score being the highest for a ti4200....that score is 70% or more cpu, if you slap a faster cpu in that pc it will go up, the vid card has maxed and 3dmark is just throwing more numbers due to the cpu performance. thats my opinion, if it takes a p4 at 4GHZ to max out a ti4200 then its gonna take a 15GHZ cpu (probably 4 years away) to max out a 9800 pro

edit: not to mention the guy somehow managed to clock it to 365/760, i think he submerged his pc in liquid nitrogen before running 3dmark :D
10-23-2003, 10:10 AM
rhettro

Quote:

Originally posted by vairox
if it takes a p4 at 4GHZ to max out a ti4200 then its gonna take a 15GHZ cpu (probably 4 years away) to max out a 9800 pro

I'm not sure what "max out" means, but when HardOCP overclocked a P4 to 4Ghz they said the 9700Pro they were using was starting to be a bottleneck to performance. I took this to mean that the CPU was giving more information than the video card could process.

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