rhino 0 #1 November 27, 2004 I had an Gforce4, Ti4200 agp card with 64 mb of ram. Was testing around 11,000 on the benchmark.. Installed a 3dforce fx5700-256 and the scores went down to 8000 ish.. Why in the hell is my old card testing higher than the new one? I even switched to a brand new ASUS motherboard... Pain in the ass... Rhino Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gerrcoin 0 #2 November 27, 2004 What benchmarking software are you using? 3DMark 2001 and 3dMark 2003 scores are different. 11,000 sounds kinda high - I only saw AMD 64 systems at around that. The benchmark score is for the whole system - CPU,RAM and video card, so changing the Mobo will effect it. Bottom line: If you replaced the card because it wasn't doing what you needed, and the new setup gets you there, the benchmark doesn't matter. Still annoying though. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LongWayToFall 0 #3 November 27, 2004 be sure you are running the updated drivers for both the video card and the bios. 11,000 isnt super high, this system is doing 20,000+ (3d mark 2001), but then again i have amd64 3700+, 9800 pro and a gig of ram. try those drivers, let us know. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
salling772 0 #4 November 27, 2004 don't forget to reset you bios agp aperture seting to 256mg and you will a beter score---------------------------------------------- All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you. J. R. T. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChasingBlueSky 0 #5 November 28, 2004 Personally, I found all of the FX5000 series of cards to run slow. You would have done better with a 9200 (or above) series ATI, or a 6000 series GeForce. Make sure you download the latest drivers from the Nvidia website - the ones in the box are most likely old and buggy....or return it and get an ATI 9800 instead. Get it via mail order and you can get a better price as well. Always check www.pricewatch.com and www.techbargains.net_________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again..... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhino 0 #6 November 28, 2004 Quotedon't forget to reset you bios agp aperture seting to 256mg and you will a beter score Done that... Have an AMD2200 at 1.8ghz, 1gig of Geil pc3200 ram... Using the benchmark2001 program not the 2003... I can't break 9000 with this new card. It sucks ass... I'm getting something different.. Rhino Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
salling772 0 #7 November 28, 2004 ok here is some more thing to check in you bios video ram shadowing disable check to see that you have the up to date drivers nivida 61.77 is the news one out directx 9.00c then try this benchmark progame aquamark at www.aquamark3.com their is a free verson that you can download and it is in maxpc magazin on the cd.---------------------------------------------- All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you. J. R. T. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rhino 0 #8 November 28, 2004 Is this any good? General: Name: Benchmark 2004-11-28 02-40-56 Processor: Vendor: AuthenticAMD Name: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2200+ SpeedMHz: 1800 Type: 0 Family: 6 Model: 8 Stepping: 0 Flags: 0xC1C3FBFF Number: 1 HyperThreading: n/a MemoryOS: 1073250304 Graphics: Description: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700LE Vendor: 4318 Device: 835 SubSys: 54729491 Revision: 161 CoreClock: 50 MemoryClock: 86 Driver: nv4_disp.dll DriverVersion: 6.14.10.6672 VideoMemory: 268435456 TextureMemory: 519045120 OperatingSystem: Version: Microsoft Windows 2000 Type: Build: Service Pack 4 2195 Run0: DisplayWidth: 1024 DisplayHeight: 768 DisplayDepth: 32 AntialiasingMode: 0 AntialiasingQuality: 0 AnisotropicFiltering: 4 DetailLevel: 4 AvgFPS: 16.098166 MinFPS: 4.626070 MaxFPS: 54.187225 AvgFPSRender: 19.240656 AvgFPSSimulation: 98.565498 AvgTrianglesPerSecond: 4846065 MinTrianglesPerSecond: 731274 MaxTrianglesPerSecond: 10971730 AquamarkScoreRender: 1923 AquamarkScoreSimulation: 4929 AquamarkScore: 16098 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dorbie 0 #9 November 28, 2004 Is it an Ultra? This affects chip and memory clock so is important when specifying. That card is not the highest end of the new generation but I've seen benchmarks that suggest it should be doing better. It has advanced shader capabilities and may still beat your old card on the right 3D applications, has more efficient antialiasing, and will run stuff your old card plain couldn't, but for most simple texture rendering it's advantages are minimized (otehr results suggest there should still be an improvement). By all means upgrade the drivers and try to squeeze more out of it. Maybe try tweaking the quality settings. It's still a decent card. The more modern and advanced your benchmark (and the more AA etc) the better your new card will look. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
salling772 0 #10 November 28, 2004 it look like the agp port is runing at 4x. check your bois that the agp port at 8x---------------------------------------------- All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you. J. R. T. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DeNReN 0 #11 November 28, 2004 I see your problem QuoteOperatingSystem: Version: Microsoft Windows 2000 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
