X1800xt poor results on 3dmark05

Shake/ · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:19

I just installed a x1800xt card with 512mb. And I run 3d mark 05 and the score I'm geting is 7116 at stock speeds. Is this not a bit low for a x1800xt?

I have a p4 HT 3.2 1mb cache. 1gig ram. and the x1800xt.

Anyone know whats up? Could it be the processor that is letting the card down? I know pentuim is not so good with ATI but the score seems very poor.

King_Boru · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:26

Your CPU will be one of the problems alright. Pentiums are known to be rather slow in benchmarking/gaming. I would'nt worry about it too much its only a benchamark. As long as your games are ticking along nicely then all is in order.

King.

triggerthat · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:30

AA or AF on?

Bennah · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:33

Welcome to the OcUK Forums

To be honest, I think that is about right mate. Is the P4 @ stock ? Basically is everything at stock speeds?

Pretty good if they are...

Shake/ · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:39

yeah. everything is at stock. And AA and AF were off I think. I'm using the free version of 3d mark05.

Bennah · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:41

Sounds about right then mate. Try overclocking the card and see where you get from there...

Can you overclock the P4 any? What motherboard are you using?

charltonfan1 · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:43

I get more than that with a X850XTPE so seems a bit low to me

Goksly · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:47

It will be the CPU. Just make sure everything is set to performance, rather than quality..... but my X1800XT at stock with a 2.7ghz opty gives almost 9.5k.
Defo the cpu.

LoadsaMoney · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:49

Yeah it probably is the CPU, got an A64 3500+ here, and i only get about 8.3k with mine all at stock.

Bennah · 2 Mar 2006 at 18:53

charltonfan1 said:
I get more than that with a X850XTPE so seems a bit low to me

What rig is that one though ?

charltonfan1 · 2 Mar 2006 at 20:24

Bennah said:
What rig is that one though ?

2.8Ghz Opteron with cheapo memory at 200Mhz

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1767868

Bennah · 2 Mar 2006 at 21:00

A 2.8Ghz Opty is somewhat a lot faster than a P4 Northwood, even if he does have a X1800 XT.

charltonfan1 · 2 Mar 2006 at 21:01

Sure, i didnt realise 05 was affected much by CPU power, thought it was 01 only. I live and learn

Goksly · 2 Mar 2006 at 21:23

3D Mark 01 is defo more of a system benchmark... but everything goes through the CPU, so there comes a time when even a heavily GPU based benchmark becomes bottled by the cpu

King_Boru · 3 Mar 2006 at 08:21

triggerthat said:
AA or AF on?

Seems to be that. My X800XTPE scores ~7200. Make sure everything is set to 'High Performance' and close anything that is open i.e: messenger, mbm,.......

king.

Shake/ · 3 Mar 2006 at 12:50

Well I tried testing 3d mark 05 again and made sure AA+AF were off and closed all apps. I also installed omega drivers and the score I got was 718X. I tried overclocking the card and changed the speeds from stock (600/700) to 640/800... And the 3d mark 05 score 7197. A increase of 10 points... So if overclocking the video card doesn't give better performance I guess this means it's 100% the CPU's fault?

Goksly · 3 Mar 2006 at 13:12

yup looks like it.

ACESHIGH · 3 Mar 2006 at 13:20

Good excuse to get an Athlon 64 3700+

megatron · 3 Mar 2006 at 13:48

I would get a dual core cpu at this stage, drivers and 3dmark06 make good use of it.

JudgeC · 3 Mar 2006 at 15:44

Shake/ said:
Well I tried testing 3d mark 05 again and made sure AA+AF were off and closed all apps. I also installed omega drivers and the score I got was 718X. I tried overclocking the card and changed the speeds from stock (600/700) to 640/800... And the 3d mark 05 score 7197. A increase of 10 points... So if overclocking the video card doesn't give better performance I guess this means it's 100% the CPU's fault?

Stock 3D speed on the X1800XT is 625/750, 600/700 is the 2D speed. So that is not such a big overclock.
Using ATI Tool, you could try setting your fan at 100% (just for testing), up your vcore to maybe 1.425v and try an overclock of say 680/850 (My memory seems good til about 870/880 at stock volts and it has been suggested it will go higher by slightly underclocking it).

If this doesn't give you better results, then I guess it would confirm the fact that the CPU is the limiting factor.

I managed to get a fraction under 10k in 3DMark05 while playing around with my X1800XT, but couldn't save it online for some reason. I seemed to have difficulty cracking the 10,000 barrier, so maybe it is my Pentium-M starting to throttle when it gets to that point. Got just under 19,000 on 3DMark03.