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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Toad on January 29, 2002, 09:34:12 PM

Title: Low CPU Score in 3DMark2000- help!
Post by: Toad on January 29, 2002, 09:34:12 PM

OK, I bought the new Athlon XP 1400, new ASUS MB, etc.

I run the 3DMark2000 and my CPU score is in the mid 300's while everyone else with this CPU is knocking down mid 500's.

Would appreicate any help in figuring this out. Just tell me what info you need and/or what I should try.

CPU was new in box, shrinkwrap intact and has all the proper markings.

I'm stumped.

Thanks in advance!

Title: Low CPU Score in 3DMark2000- help!
Post by: Hajo on January 29, 2002, 10:04:19 PM

Toad     I did the same thing about a month ago.  Bloom, in another topic somewhere stated that  when you swaped MB and CPU that windows had to be re installed so that it could take advantage of the special instructions that the new cpu gives you.


I did as bloom said and my FR increased an avg. of 7.  I hope Bloom sees this so he can inform you about the possiblilty of having to reinstall windows after swaping MBs and CPUs'

Hajo

Title: Low CPU Score in 3DMark2000- help!
Post by: Staga on January 29, 2002, 10:13:54 PM

check from bios if your memory is running 100mhz (should be 133mhz =266)

Title: Low CPU Score in 3DMark2000- help!
Post by: Toad on January 29, 2002, 10:45:44 PM

Thank you both for the suggestions!

Hajo, I built this with a new IBM Hard Drive so I did a clean install of Windows for that.

Staga, I checked the bios and the speed was defaulted to "auto" so I reset it to 133:133 (the other choice was 100:133).

I ran the 3DMark2000 now and there might be a minor improvement but it's still not up in the 500 range that other folks are getting.

Here's the data:



 CPU AMD Athlon(tm) XP/MP/4 1410 MHz
Graphics Chipset NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/Pro/Ti
Driver Name NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro
Resolution 1024x768 16bit
Z-Buffer Depth 16bit
Frame Buffer Triple
CPU Optimization D3D Hardware T&L
 
3DMark Score 5805 3D marks
CPU Speed 396 CPU 3D marks
 
Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail 124.8 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail 80.3 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail 29.2 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail 113.8 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail 82.4 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail 53.2 FPS
 
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 568.9 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1172.4 MTexels/s
 
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 6.3 MTriangels/s
High Polygon Count (4 Lights) 6.3 MTriangels/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 5.6 MTriangels/s
 
8MB Texture Rendering Speed 431.0 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed 388.1 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed 234.2 FPS
64MB Texture Rendering Speed N/A
 
Bump Mapping (Emboss 3-pass) 217.7 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss 2-pass) 288.5 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss 1-pass) 480.6 FPS
Bump Mapping (Environment) Not run
 


Any other suggestions?

Thanks again!