Just doubled my 3dmark '01 SE score!

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riptid3

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Well my shipment from newegg came in. Thanks for all the tips on which vid card to get. I ended up going with the 9600xt from Saphirre. That along with another 128 meg ddr pc 2700 (some other new toys too that don't effect video), ended me up with a 10667 3d mark score. My old one before the update was 5023 or something like that. So needless to say I'm pretty happy.

I have an Athlon XP 2100 running stock, with a little 'oc tweaking and vid card tweaking I'd like to think I could get a 12k score.

Newegg :D
 
good to hear that you're happy. i say set your goals a little higher and go for 13k. 12k will be cake if you overclock your sysem a bit
 
I got 14k in 3dm01 with stock settings on my 9600xt. I haven't tried to run it again since I oc'd the hell out of it though. I do get almost 4700 points in 3dm03 though.
 
for some reason 10667 sounds a bit low for that card. I was getting a little over 11000 with my TI4400 in the system below.
 
I probably have the wrong drivers installed. It doesn't show up as a 9600xt, but instead, as a RADEON 9600 SERIES in device manager.

I'll update drivers, fool around with it and re run, see how things go.
 
make sure you have the cat. 4.2's, and enable overdrive...
and it will show up as 9600 series.
 
Well, fooled around the bit, and the score went up, but I was still under 11k.

2 things are probably affecting my score. 1st thing my ram is PC2700, and I have it running as PC2100. I could change it in my bios, but I'm so happy with my system running stable I hate to break things and end up with random reboots. Its working great right now.

Also, it appears, that the MSI KT3 Ultra 2 can only run 4x agp, 1x, 2x or auto. So, I'm not even running the card at 8x.

My AMD 2100 is running at stock 1.733 ghz. I'd like to up it to at least 2.0 or 1.933 but I'm running stock retail amd fans/heatsink. I have a copper one w/ fan sitting here, but like the ram, I don't want to go in and break something when everything is running great.
 
As long as YOU are happy with the card.. it doesnt matter how many 3d whatnot marks you get. Now good sir, feed it some games ;)
 
Originally posted by Mojo3k70
As long as YOU are happy with the card.. it doesnt matter how many 3d whatnot marks you get. Now good sir, feed it some games ;)
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Ding ding ding! Well said.
 
O yah I'm real happy. New Egg order came in with SB Audigy ES, 9600xt Vid card, 512 Megs of DDR ram, and a DVD R/RW.

I plugged them all in (and removed the old stuff) in less then 20 mins, started up the PC, loaded the drivers, and everything has been peachy since then. Doubled my 3d performance. Everything is working beautifully.

I kinda love XP sometimes :D
 
See, I knew I shouldn't have messed with it!

I went into my bios settings and started playing around with it trying to get my CPU up to par, and right after I saved + exit, computer wouldn't boot up. Got stuck on initializing harddrive controller every single time (I got the lights on the back).

So, I shorted cmos, and rebooted, fixed every thing back to the way I had it before.

I'm leaving it at a 10k mark and calling it done! :)
 
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