Can someone explain how 3Dmark works?

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I saw this thread where everyone was posting thier 3Dmark scores so I decided to download the program and see what my pc (specs in sig) could do. My score was 443.

Why is my score so low? Is my system that crappy?

Here an example of a system that scored over 2000 in that thread.

example said:
Athlon 64 3000+ Newcastle@2.4ghz, Chaintech VNF3-250, 1024mb crappy pc2700, Radeon 9800
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What is it basing the score on? Do I need to tweak something somewhere?

Thanks - Aratech
 
A score that low usually indicates you couldn't run some of the tests required for the normal benchmark.
 
Least said:
A score that low usually indicates you couldn't run some of the tests required for the normal benchmark.
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Either that, or your card cannot run those tests because its too old.
 
Are there any benchmark programs that look at overall system performance instead of focusing on the video card? This is not a gaming system so I dont require that much graphics horsepower. I mostly do photo and video editing, website design, drawing and occasionally recording.

As far as games go... I mostly play my PS2. I bought the X550 recently for $39 from newegg so I could play my old games when the kids were on the console. I am currently playing Hitman Contracts, Tron & Knight Rider. I dont know about new games but these look freaking awesome with this card compared to the Geforce 2 w\64mb it replaced.
 
no program gives a good "real time" performance measure of your entire system

You can try 3dmark2001 it is more over all system, alot of CPU i recall.

SysMark is another one.

SuperPI for CPU.
 
When playing a shooter like Hitman I have to break every thing that even resembles glass. I shoot every window, monitor, screen, lamp, exit sign, headlight, police light, lamp post, and street light in the game. As a result my stage times are really long. :p
 
Aratech said:
When playing a shooter like Hitman I have to break every thing that even resembles glass. I shoot every window, monitor, screen, lamp, exit sign, headlight, police light, lamp post, and street light in the game. As a result my stage times are really long. :p
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lol. I dont know how this ended up here. I was trying to post it here.
 
So I went home and oc'ed the video card with ati tray tools. I basically increased the speeds untill the card shut down. I was able to get the gpu from 398mhz to 501mhz and the memory from 199mhz to 215mhz which resulted in a 63 point jump on my 3mark score. Then I noticed that the passive hs was much hotter than before so I decided to remedy that with a little modding. I took the fan from an old pentium hsf, cleaned it up and modded it to fit on the cards heatsink. It works great. Even looks stock. :p
 
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