9900 3dmarks for 9700pro

[Boyne7]

hello i just baught a saphire radeon 9700pro and uninstalled my old gf2 gts and its drivers. Then installed the radeon and i ran 3dmark 2001se
and I got a score of 9960. That is really low from what ive seen.
My setup is:
msi 850pro mobo
p4 423, 1.7ghz
2x64, 2x256 mb pc800 rdram
Radeon 9700 pro

What is slowing it down. This is my old system and i will be using this card in my new one once i get all of the parts for it but even so that seems low.

 

[BoomAM]

I had the same problem when i upgraded my GF3Ti200 to a 9700PRO, got about 8800 3d marks. Formatted my HD and then did the test and i now get 10202 3D Marks.
No Matter how carefully you got rid of the old nVidia related stufff, it stil wont be enough.
Just backup your stuff and re-install windows from scratch.

 

[CoolLight]

The video card's power will only be unleashed if you get a fast CPU, and higher FSB. I am at 192 FSB, Athlon 2100+@2.3G, my 3DMarks2001 scores 17000+.

 

[Spicedaddy]

you're limited by the CPU...

Also keep in mind that people post the scores they get with everything set to fastest in the video properties... (low textures, no AA or Aniso, etc.)

 

[lung]

The CPU is not the problem. I get 13008 with my 1.6a@2.4. This is of course with no AA or AF, vsync off, and all settings put to performance.

SO, make sure your AA and AF are off in the display control panel, not just in 3DMark.

 

[Glitchny]

please make sure u say which 3dmark since there are two of them, and i was about to say that 9900 on the new 3dmark would be amazing

 

[Spicedaddy]

Originally posted by: lung
The CPU is not the problem. I get 13008 with my 1.6a@2.4. This is of course with no AA or AF, vsync off, and all settings put to performance.

SO, make sure your AA and AF are off in the display control panel, not just in 3DMark.

1.7 Willamette << 2.4 Northwood

 

[Wolfsraider]

spice daddy is on the ball

your willammette is about right for 3dmark2001 as i get about the same on a 1.5 willie same mobo.
but the northwoods run the test much better.

 

[kylebisme]

exactly, all 9700s seem to be prety well cpu limmited still, espesialy with 3dmark. regardless it still doesn't take much of a cpu to pair up with a 9700 and make one sweet gameing rig.

 

[BoomAM]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
....regardless it still doesn't take much of a cpu to pair up with a 9700 and make one sweet gameing rig.

Couldnt have put it better myself.

 

[BoomAM]

Just a question,
When you people benchmark, do you have the drivers set to max performance, balanced or max quality. I usually set it to max quality.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Yup, the answer was stated above, but one more time, what's holding you back is the p4 423, 1.7ghz. That's like using an XP 1500+.

 

[kylebisme]

BoomAM, turn everything all the way down in your drivers, a whole lot of people do it and if you don't it thows the scroes off. granted on a radeon you cant realy get that much out of it as you can't trun things nearly as low as on a geforce.

 

[BoomAM]

I`ll try max performance then. Probably get a few hundred more 3D Marks, i did on my GF3Ti200.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
Yup, the answer was stated above, but one more time, what's holding you back is the p4 423, 1.7ghz. That's like using an XP 1500+.

Depends, if it's a willy it's not even that fast and the 1.6A@2.4ghz is runnin' 150fsbx4=600fsb which will smoke a 400FSB NW or willy 1.7 so that's not a good example

 

[Boyne7]

so its definatley the cpu
well thats good couse my new rig
2.66@3.1-3.3
asus p4g8x
2x256mb corsair xms 3500
radeon 9700pro

will definatley not be cpu limited