3DMark03 Score

**The Real Bingo** · October 25th, 2003, 11:13 AM

Alright, I just gotta 1017 on the test with a Radeon 9100 128Mb video card and 512Mb SDRam. I also have XP Pro, and a P4 1500MHz processor. The card is slightly overclocked, and I would overclock it more, but I cant keep it cool enough. Any sugguestions to improve that abysmal score without overclocking would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

**Ultima** · October 25th, 2003, 11:55 AM

I think your almost at your max, because of the following:

1: You have a dated cpu and a budget videocard, this combination never ends in high scores.

2: Sdram is getting dated too, this is also hindering yer performance.

I benched my rig just now, and got a nice score, but as you can see, I use an XP1800 @ default.

My suggestion would be, to get yourself a Radeon 9500 or 9600, they can be had for a very nice price.

But on the other hand, if all the games you play run just fine, and you can do with the card what ya want to do, why upgrade?? Just because a benchmark program gives you a score you think is too low??

I wouldn't go that far, but to each his own ofcourse.

But with that setup, I'd say your almost running max.

What was your 2001SE score??
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=1476243

**The Real Bingo** · October 25th, 2003, 12:01 PM

Ok, thank you. Hopefully for Christmas I'll try to build a rig of my own. Nothing too flashy, but something that is upgradeable for the future. I guess what I have now will hafta do.

**Cloud Strife9600** · November 19th, 2003, 08:46 PM

I have an important question
How much better is a 9600 128mb than a 9100 128mb? Twice as much? Less? more?

**slinky** · November 19th, 2003, 08:59 PM

it's about Ti4200 performance but with directx9 support.

**Cloud Strife9600** · November 22nd, 2003, 11:16 AM

Well Id say that thats a pretty nice budget card, a lot better than my 32mb tnt2. What about the 9200?

**Ultima** · November 22nd, 2003, 03:03 PM

The 9200 is crap!!

Even a Geforce3 Ti200 will outperform it in 3dmark2001.

Best to get the Ti4200 or the Radeon 9500/9600 for budget card.

The 9200 is about the same performance as the FX5200

**sweeper2** · November 29th, 2003, 04:53 PM

I use a radeon 9600 pro 128
athlon xp 2500 overclocked to 3200 xp
512 ddr 2700 mem
MSI K7N2 Delta nForce 2 Chipset MOBO
13 gig maxter 7200

overclock 9600 to 450/348

ran 3800 on 3d mark 2003
ran 12300 on 3d mark 2001 SE
ran 3900 on PC Mark 2004

9600 pro 128 runs great...good card for the price...depends of mobo also. Just put in the MSI, added alot of performance.

**Cloud Strife9600** · December 9th, 2003, 11:59 PM

One more question, whats the difference between 9500 and 9700?

**smithy** · December 10th, 2003, 03:46 AM

I just ran my score

3dmark01--16658
3dmark03--5034

What do you guys think- It really helped when I updated my nvidia drivers and ati drivers- My video card is still running at stock speeds.

**Sweeper** · December 10th, 2003, 07:08 AM

smithy.... don't know what your specs are ...?

Cloud Strife - Here ya go for a complete run down.

**Cloud Strife9600** · December 10th, 2003, 10:47 AM

Ok well im going to do get the 9500 pro, and then i guess ill do the benchmark thing

**smithy** · December 10th, 2003, 03:15 PM

Originally posted by Sweeper
smithy.... don't know what your specs are ...?

Cloud Strife - Here ya go for a complete run down.

Athlon 2500xp barton OC -200x11=2200mhz Stock v1.65
A7N8X Deluxe rev 2.0 1007bios
ATI Radeon 9700pro Stock settings 325/310
Thermalright SLK-947U w/ Zalman 92mm fan
2-256's Mushkin 3500DDR Level 2's Dual Channel- Stock 2.5
Zalman HD-80A GPU Cooler w/120 Emermax fan
Win2kpro SP4
35c idle/39c Load