3DMark score and trouble oc'ing 9800

I've been playing around with my new system and ran 3dmark 2001SE. My 1st score was a 15,017, with the radeon 9800 at stock settings. I used rage 3d tweak and upped the core from 378 to 391.5 and memory from 337.5 to 346.5, but the benchmark locks up or I get booted back to the desktop. Is there a reason I can't OC that much? I don't think it is a heat problem cause the case is open, but why else would the card lockup? I also noticed that in Bios my agp aperature size was set to 64mb, so I changed that to 128, which I read is the better setting. I also just loaded the intel INF chipset driver from the p4p800 CD, which I had forgotten to do when I loaded XP. Anyways, I think my score even at stock is kinda low. What do you guys think? BTW, vsync, AA, AF are all disabled.

Click on the link in my sig. to Pyro`s 3D Mark guide maybe you will find something there to help you.

Thanks for the link. I've done some of what is suggested, but is 15K for a benchmark a little too low? Would you expect higher with the equip. and components that i have? thanks.

I would say you're about 2k-3k marks too low.

jzinckgra, is that a 9800pro or a plain 9800, I know that some oem`s like Dell have the plain 9800`s now.

i got the card new from a guy on ebay. It is an OEM pro card. Just another thing I've noticed tonite, running either 2001SE or 3dmark 2003 seems to be crashig the puter back to the desktop in the middle of the benchmark. This is after I put the core and mem settings on the VC back to stock settings.

Did you have another VC on there before this one, it may be left over drivers causing a problem.

that is pretty low. I've seen a 1700+ at 2.4 ghz with a ti 4600 do the same score as your 9800 pro. change the clock speeds to stock, and try again. If it still crashes, a reformat is on the way.

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Did you have another VC on there before this one, it may be left over drivers causing a problem.

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Yes, I had a radeon 7200 in there 1st, until I got the new 9800pro. But it looks like I've got the correct drivers loaded. If I do a reformat, I assume XP will still let me re-install since I haven't activated my copy yet?

You need a good overclock on your cpu dude to score high, also sorry to hear your video card wont overclock. sometimes you oc like mad, other times it cant oc 10MHz!!!!!!

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You need a good overclock on your cpu dude

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Speaking of CPU scores, when I ran 3dmark03, I only scored around 250 for the cpu score. the graphic score was about 5300. in comparing the cpu with other people with the same processor, they were scoring around 500-600. i don't think their cpus were oc'd. anyhoo, just seems like my new rig should be performing better.

jzinckgra,
I know what you mean, Id lost alot of sleep too because of low cpu score in 3DM2k3, down from around 600+ to 350-395, couln't solve the problem myself, was REALLY po'ed:mad: (was seriously considering a format). Fortunately, I have a friend, who owns a comp retail shop and is an expert (at least, he's the best I know):) , took my 'puter to him and in the course of a few minutes, he troubleshot the problem.:) Cpu score's now is well clear of 600.:D (Didn't see what he did as I went out to check out new hardware available). Sorry.:( Do you want me to check out what he did?:confused:

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Do you want me to check out what he did?

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yes, that would be great. I did the whole reformat last night following Pyro's guide to 3dmark. I haven't had a chance yet to test 3dmark03 or 2001SE. will do that tonite.thanks

Will do, btw, that's one heck of a rig you've got there;) . I'll be seeing him tomorrow, will ask him what he did.:) Best of luck, hope you find a solution soon!:D

I have basically the Identical system I got 17651 or something like that at stock speeds overclocked and got 20009 so you should be much higher.

You should be around 16.5-17k with that setup @ stock...

I wonder why you are scoring low... You have all IQ details on low???

I score 19K with a stock video card but my Proc overclocked to 3.45Ghz :)

So you should be below that :)

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You have all IQ details on low???

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Sorry, I'm new to using 3dmark, but what are the IQ details? I assume they're 3dmark settings.

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I have basically the Identical system I got 17651 or something like that at stock speeds overclocked and got 20009 so you should be much higher.

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Is there any way you can post the most important BIOS settings and windows settings for your stock setup that you think might help me out? thanks.

Yes under the Direct3D panel in the Control Panel..

I click custom settings and drop all the levers to the left... Then click on use Application Prefered on the AA/AF settings...

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Yes under the Direct3D panel in the Control Panel..

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Thanks. Should I modify any of the settings in the Open GL tab or just leave them as is?

It doesnt matter... 3DMarks doesnt use OpenGL...

Ok, so I reran the benchmark and got 16,979. Does this sound about right w/o any OCing? One thing I noticed is when the tests are running, my screen is shifted to the right a little, so the "FPS XXX" part is only partially visable. Does that sound like a monitor driver issue? This doesn't happen on the desktop at 1024x768 res.
Not sure if you can directly link to my benchmark, but here it is:
http://service.futuremark.com/servle...jectId=6612951

You need to publish it and it will show the link to use.

Ok, I published the result. Here's the link again:
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=6612951