THIS IS DRIVING ME MAD!! I was blown away by you guys and your 3dmark03 & 02 scores and was wondering if you could take the time to give me a few pointers with my system on how to improve my 3dmark scores. Thought you might know the answer...................... Just got my new computer about a fortnight ago (but i have been on holiday and havent had too much of a mess about - Im off work this week so im trying to get everything sweet !!) and ran 3dmark 2001se (with all update patches) and 3dmark 2003( with all patches ) my highest scores were as follows using the catalyst 4.7 drivers and NOTHING AT ALL OVERCLOCKED, "ALL STOCK" i think the term is ! 3dmark 01se = 17927 3dmark 03 = 5995 Aquamark 03 = 43346 Can you tell me, or at least give me some pointers?. Are these scores are high or low for my system (below)?????? and how to improve them accordingly if needed. Regards.................Andrew My Computer: Asus p4c800 -e deluxe i875p Raid SATA Gbit Lan 6ch Intel Pentium 4 3.20ghz 800mhz (socket 478) 1 Mb 1024 mb DDR 400 Pc 3200 Cl2.5 Samsung 128mb ATI Radeon 9800 Pro DDR DVI TV OUT 120 gb Maxtor serial ATA 7200rpm 8mb cache-ATA Sony 1.44mb floppy 16x DVD Drive IDE 8xDVD-R NEC OEM Creative Audigy 2 6.1 Creative Inspire 6.1 p580 Windows Xp Pro oem 17" Silver Black CRT Flat Monitor AOC Inwin MIDI tower __________________
Hey, your scores look good to me.....You could try downloading the Catalyst 4.9's from ATi's site http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/...prod=productsXPdriver&submit.x=18&submit.y=11 Besides that once you're comfortablw with your system and how it all comes together, you can embark on the 9800 Pro to XT mod......It's almost 100% sure-fire guaranteed to work and will give you a nice little boost in performance.... But for now, yeah, download the Cat 4.9's and post back with your benchies.... PS: I'm assuming you have DX 9.0c
Ya, your scores look fine for you current video card. Under normal circumstances you can just uninstall from the control panel in Windows, reboot, and cancel Window's attempts to install video drivers, then install from the installer file for the new drivers. (download new drivers first) If you have any issues, download Driver Cleaner. If you need or want to use it... Uninstall drivers, reboot into safe mode, run Driver Cleaner for ATI video drivers, reboot back into normal mode, then install new drivers. (cancel any attempts by Windows to install vid drivers) Can be a hassle if you haven't done it but a couple of runs and you'll have it down.
your scores look ok for a stock system you have a very good motherboard for o/cin you ram will let you down though the best drivers for ati are 4.8 and dx9c use rage 3d to tweek you vid card and try to increace your fsb you have a prescott so it should o/c ok you have about 2k there in 01 just in tweeking the card so, try rage and only change 1 setting at a time and test till you get the best set up its not hard but it is very time consuming. and do your home work
