so they told me to test my new video card....

[Camarorulz]

I hate to say it man, but those are some pretty poor marks on 3dmark for the hardware you have.

I can pull around 15,000, can't remember exactly haven't done it in awhile.

Here's my system config

Athlon XP 2800+ (barton core)

1 gigabyte DDR400 RAM

Nvidia Geforce FX5800 ultra video card

Asus A7N8X mobo.

Go into your video card settings, see if you can find a setting for anti-aliasing: turn it off, that will help your results significantly. Go to task manager and end any unneccessary processes that suck up CPU usage. You did run the 3dmark benchmark on the default settings didn't you?

[ April 04, 2005, 02:36 PM: Message edited by: Camarorulz ]

[chadder]

AMD beats down all!!! and ATI will kick your nvidia ***! (let the flaming begin)

[LD]

Originally posted by Camarorulz:
I hate to say it man, but those are some pretty poor marks on 3dmark for the hardware you have.

I can pull around 15,000, can't remember exactly haven't done it in awhile.

Here's my system config

Athlon XP 2800+ (barton core)

1 gigabyte DDR400 RAM

Nvidia Geforce FX5800 ultra video card

Asus A7N8X mobo.

Go into your video card settings, see if you can find a setting for anti-aliasing: turn it off, that will help your results significantly. Go to task manager and end any unneccessary processes that suck up CPU usage. You did run the 3dmark benchmark on the default settings didn't you?

doesn't 3dmark just test your video card?
the computer performs great, it's weak point has always lied with the video card
yeah I ran it at the default

[chadder]

3dmark tests mainly your video card, but a strong vid card isnt going anywhere if your processor cannot compute fast enough to process the memory bs...not getting into specifics...

that is also a big vice-versa, strong processor, weak card= strong results FOR A CRAPPY CARD...which in the end still means crappy results period

example... athlon 64 3200+ with a geforce 3, lets say makes 2100 on 3dmark03.

while a weaker processor, athlon xp 2800, same vid card will make a `1500 on 3dmark03. get it?

[LD]

Originally posted by chadder:
3dmark tests mainly your video card, but a strong vid card isnt going anywhere if your processor cannot compute fast enough to process the memory bs...not getting into specifics...

that is also a big vice-versa, strong processor, weak card= strong results FOR A CRAPPY CARD...which in the end still means crappy results period

example... athlon 64 3200+ with a geforce 3, lets say makes 2100 on 3dmark03.

while a weaker processor, athlon xp 2800, same vid card will make a `1500 on 3dmark03. get it?

for sure the weak spot on this computer is the graphics card
I just wanted to show how hard I had this thing chuggin
thought it was funny