9900 3DMark 2001 score!!??

steve258 · 29 Jan 2007 at 15:50

Was at my mate's house this weekend to help him put together his new rig that comprises:

Pentium D 945 3.4Ghz FSB800
2Gb ADATA DDR2 800 5-5-5-18 @ 667Mhz 4/4/4/10
MSI 945P Neo2
ELSA 7300GT 256Mb GDDR3
Hitachi 250Gb SATA2
NEC DVD-RW
Jeantech Case from the evil place
Enhance 350W :eek:

Acer 19" Widescreen

Yeah i know... gave him a list of components to buy from OCUK and he went back to Taiwan this Christmas and got a PD instead...

Anyway so I put everything together and ran 3Dmark 01/03/05 and here are the scores:

2001: 9900 :confused:

2003: 11000
2005: 3800

Anyone has any idea why 2001 score is so low??

I used the latest drivers and also orthos ran fine for the few hours I've tested.

Ronaldo · 29 Jan 2007 at 15:54

I wont worry about it 3dmark 03 and 05 looks right for 7300

furnace · 29 Jan 2007 at 16:30

What's a PD?

Trigger · 29 Jan 2007 at 16:37

furnace said:
What's a PD?

Pentium D. The 7300 is the problem- your never going to get a good score with one of those. If the system runs okay though and he is happy with it then I wouldn't worry about the scores. What I would be worried about though is that PSU- I bet it's a generic one as well?

I won't even mention the Hitatchi HDD

CHUDS · 29 Jan 2007 at 16:37

pentium d.

oh already answered lol
:mad:

Trigger · 29 Jan 2007 at 16:38

CHUDS said:
pentium d.

oh already answered lol

I win

CHUDS · 29 Jan 2007 at 16:38

damnit

Starfall · 29 Jan 2007 at 16:45

3DMark2001 is a pure system power and tweak benchmark. You're quite limited in system power and i'm betting the system is running all sorts of junk in the background.

The 7300 is not the problem on 2001, it's the raw grunt of the system. For example i can make a mockery out of that score with a GeForce3 which is a vastly inferior card

It's a special benchmark - if your system runs modern games well, you dont have to worry about it

steve258 · 29 Jan 2007 at 17:00

Yeah that's what I thought, I mean my setup can get near-30000 score and surely a PD and 7300GT can break 20000 at least??

Anyway he is happy about the rig so I'm not really concerned, it will run all his online games at native res with all details maxed out fine. e.g. WOW, RF online, Guild War...etc.

As for the power supply it's a half-decent Taiwanese brand, with 2 12V+ rails and 15A each I think... Tried to talk him into getting a new one but he's not bothered. So I reduced the vcore instead hoping it will ease up the amperage.