Low 3DMark03 with MSI FX5900

With the system below, I get a 3DMARK3 (Build 340) score of 4540
(53.03 drivers) at standard clocks (400/850), which seems to be rather
low. At the highest stable OC (425/925), I get 4790. Any tips,
suggestions or comments? Thanks in advance.

System:

Intel P4 2.8C 800FSB, HT
ASUS P4P800 Deluxe UAY
OCZ 2X512MB PC3200 Dual Channel EL Platinum
MSI FX5900 VTD128 VIVO
OS: Win2K SP4

Detailed Results (at 400/850):

3DMark Sco 4540 3DMarks
GT1 - Wings of Fury: 161.8 FPS
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon: 33.3 FPS
GT3 - Troll's Lair: 27.1 FPS
GT4 - Mother Natu 22.1 FPS
CPU Sco 568 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1: 59.6 FPS
CPU Test 2: 10.7 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing): 1365.1 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing): 2835.3 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader: 11.7 FPS
Pixel Shader 2.0: 43.0 FPS
Ragtroll: 15.9 FPS
No sounds: 50.2 FPS
24 sounds: 40.8 FPS
60 sounds: Not supported

I don't know if this helps but:

Using 3dMark 2003 free version
sco 5222

System:

P4 2.6 800FSB, HT
Gigabyte (GA648?) motherboard
2x512 pc3200 Samsung ram
MSI FX5900 VTD128
Windows XP Pro
No overclocking

RE

"Bogdan" wrote in message
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With the system below, I get a 3DMARK3 (Build 340) score of 4540
(53.03 drivers) at standard clocks (400/850), which seems to be rather
low. At the highest stable OC (425/925), I get 4790. Any tips,
suggestions or comments? Thanks in advance.

System:

Intel P4 2.8C 800FSB, HT
ASUS P4P800 Deluxe UAY
OCZ 2X512MB PC3200 Dual Channel EL Platinum
MSI FX5900 VTD128 VIVO
OS: Win2K SP4

Detailed Results (at 400/850):

3DMark Sco 4540 3DMarks
GT1 - Wings of Fury: 161.8 FPS
GT2 - Battle of Proxycon: 33.3 FPS
GT3 - Troll's Lair: 27.1 FPS
GT4 - Mother Natu 22.1 FPS
CPU Sco 568 CPUMarks
CPU Test 1: 59.6 FPS
CPU Test 2: 10.7 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing): 1365.1 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing): 2835.3 MTexels/s
Vertex Shader: 11.7 FPS
Pixel Shader 2.0: 43.0 FPS
Ragtroll: 15.9 FPS
No sounds: 50.2 FPS
24 sounds: 40.8 FPS
60 sounds: Not supported

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:53:06 GMT, Bogdan wrote:

With the system below, I get a 3DMARK3 (Build 340) score of 4540
(53.03 drivers) at standard clocks (400/850), which seems to be rather
low. At the highest stable OC (425/925), I get 4790. Any tips,
suggestions or comments? Thanks in advance.

System:

Intel P4 2.8C 800FSB, HT
ASUS P4P800 Deluxe UAY
OCZ 2X512MB PC3200 Dual Channel EL Platinum
MSI FX5900 VTD128 VIVO
OS: Win2K SP4


Hmmm.. On a system I worked on, I got 4901 on an FX5900(plain) MSI
card (almost like yours). Not Overclocked.

AMD XP2000 (1.68Ghz) with 512mb Single channel RAM (PC2700)
WindowsXP.

So perhaps you have other issues? Spyware? Adware? too much crap
running on your system. Go into services and shut down some crap.
Locate a program called: "spybot Search and destroy" - 100% free.


--
Remember when real men used Real computers!?
When 512K of video RAM was a lot!

Death to Palladium & WPA!!

william bell wrote:
He is also Running Win2K that that does not support Hyper Threading..

Although Intel do not list Windows 2000 as supported for Hyperthreading, it
does in fact work fine. Windows 2000 Pro will handle 1 CPU with
Hyperthreading (due to it's support for up to 2 processors), and Windows
2000 Server will handle a dual processor system (so it sees 4 processors).
The main difference between that and Windows XP is that XP only counts
physical processors against it's limit, therefore Windows XP Pro is able to
make use of a dual processor system with HT where Windows 2000 Pro would
only use the first 2 logical processors, ignoring the 2 additional
processors revealed by the HT technology, and so in this case it would be
better to disable HT so that the 2 processors are running normally and not
reserving resources for handling requests to the 2 logical processors that
will never get used.

Netware and Linux will also handle hyperthreading.

It's possible that better performance may be seen if HT is disabled on the
PC.

Win2K was never ever meant for games at all.

True, although it runs all the games I play fine

Dan