3Dmark2000 v1.1

[dZeus]

Ok, I've put up a first impression on my website http://dzeus.student.utwente.nl/g400
look in the menu for benchmarking

Yet there is not much on it, but the coming days I will test some of the older driver releases (at least 5.14 and 5.20). Of course this is only valid for relative driver performance on a fixed machine in Win2k, so for real good graphs other users should also test with different OS platforms, CPU speeds and driver versions, and as Ant says we can collect those results somewhere here on murc.

First of all we should have a fixed testing methodogy, trying to minimalize the effect of difference in benchmark settings of the different users. Can anyone comment on the benchmarking methodogy I've used?

[SCompRacer]

My just finished Athlon T'bird with no tweaks gets 2,781 with the default benchmark, 2,145 in 32 bit.

Ant's idea is pretty good. Be nice to see something on this site for one stop shopping. Some tweak ideas needed here for the new territory I am in.

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ABIT KT7 non-RAID * 900MHz Athlon T'bird * 128MB Micron PC/133 RAM * Two Cheetah LVD's * Barracuda UW * DiamondMAX IDE * Plextor Ultraplex 40max/Plexwriter 12/4/32 * Hitachi IDE DVD * 2940U2W * SB Live * 3Com 905B-TX NIC * 3Com Courier V. Ext. * Hollywood + * Win 98SE, Win 2000 *

[diuby]

Now with G400MAx 155/207Mhz + SGRam optimization Duron 700 not OV PC133MHZ with min latency allowed by bios:
default bench:
3dmark 3131
CPU 195
Win98 - DirectX7a - pd 6.01

I think it is pretty good for a low-end system STABLE with a little optimization.

[Barmaleus]

Well... with my PIII450@495 i got 2570 3DMarks... now @558 i get some 2757 3Dmarks...all this with 3DMark2000 v1.1... the other specs are in my sig...

Radu

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My system:
PIII 450@558
Abit BE6
128 Mb Hitachi PC100 RAM
OEM G400SH 16MB@160/180
(MGA Tweak Sys clk 360/2.25/2/2.25)
IBM 10 Gigger
SB Live! value
Hyundai 17" monitor

Oh yeah, PD6.10+TGL1.30+DX7.0A, all this on WIN98SE...

[hoppergrass]

Hey Lucas,
That's about right on the 3D Score. I was getting a 2750 Score with my Duron @ 900Mhz with G400 non o/c. I put a small 486 fan on the Heatsink and o/c my G400 to 150core/188mem with MGA Tweak and the PD6.10 drivers (6.21v sucks too bad) and I get a 3DMark Score of 3114 using the default test and DX8 using Win98 SE.

Epox 8KTA+ Mobo
Duron 650 @ 900Mhz (100x9.0) @ 1.825v
128MB Memory PC100 CAS2 @ PC133 CAS3 Interleave2
Mini Chrome Orb H/S & Fan
Matrox Millenium G400 32MB AGP S/H @ 150core 188mem with Fan
Acer 50X CD-ROM
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 15.3GB 7,200rpm Hard Drive
Sound Blaster Live Gamer Sound Card
NetGear FA310TX NIC
U.S. Robotics 5690 56K Mod

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[Lucas Zanatta]

Thanks, that helps alot. I was wondering what kind of score I should be getting.

[nady]

My hardware config:
ABIT KT7/Raid Bios WZ01
AMD TB 900 Mhz
Matrox G400 DH32Mb
256 Mb Memory
Directx7

My results under Windows 98se measured
Driver
Powerdesk
(6.21) 2670
(6.10) 3076

Ask to all of them these also use the new driver 6.21, is this really slower than the driver 6.10

Ask for help

[drzaius]

i've got a couple expect most of them the G400 is o/ced. 3dmark 2000 ver. 1.1 1024x786x16 system is Abit ZM6, and 128meg cas2, and win98se, and display drivers 6.21 (unless otherwise specified).

celeron 366@550 (5.5x100) G400 160 180 Directx 7.0a PD 6.04 score: 1881

celeron 566@707 (8.5x83) G400 160 180 directx 7.0a, score: 2600

celeron 566@707 (8.5x83) G400 150 200 directx 7.0a, score: 2687

celeron 566@707 (8.5x83) G400 126 166 directx 7.0a, score: 2688

celeron 566@707 (8.5x83) G400 170 190 directx 7.0a, score: 2900

celeron 566@707 (8.5x83) G400 150 200 directx 8.0, score: 2993

celeron 566@707 (8.5x83) G400 170 190 directx 8.0, score: 3004

celeron 566@850 (8.5x100) G400 126 166 directx 7.0a, score: 2757

celeron 566@850 (8.5x100) G400 160 180 directx 7.0a, score: 2961

celeron 566@850 (8.5x100) G400 160 180 directx 8.0, score: 2995

celeron 566@850 (8.5x100) G400 170 190 directx 8.0, score: 3240

celeron 566@850 (8.5x100) G400 170 190 directx 8.0, 3dmark 32-bit score: 2550

i haven't done any scores with my CPU @566, as you can see, but if you needed them i could get them done.

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Slow people as easy to pass, it's people who drive fast that are hard.

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[Kruzin]

WooHoo!
Ant set up a forum JUST for benchmark threads.

Guess where you can now find this thread

[Himself]

I'd like to see a chart showing any speed increases in benchmarks in general due to driver updates. This would give people an idea how Matrox updates their drivers when it comes to tweaking for speed.

Overclocking the video card when you have a somewhat fast cpu gives quite a boost in 3dmark scores, so video card clock rates should be listed with any scores as well as the cpus.


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[DosFreak]

MidTower Case w/ 300W PSU (Ordering New Case/PSU very soon)
2XP3-700E@868 124Mhz bus X 7 1/4
Abit VP6
4X128m=512M PC-150 Mushkin Rev3 @HCLK+PCICLK
Hercules 3D Prophet 2 GTS 64M 220C/360M Bios v3.15.00.12
PCI2/SoundBlaster Live! X-Gamer (Going to be 5.1)
PCI3/Hauppauge WinTV Theatre
PCI4/Creative Dxr3 Decoder (Going to be a H+)
PCI5/NetGear FA310TX
SM/Pioneer 16X Slot DVD-105F
SS/Ricoh MP7040A@7060A CDRW (Soon to be Plextor 12/10/32A)
Floppy 3.5"
PM/Maxtor 27.2G DMA/66 92732U8 (Going to be 1X40g & 2X75G Soon. Thinking about SCSI)
Windows 2000 Professional
Nvidia 7.17 Drivers
Directx 8
Via 4.27 AGP & INF (NO BUSMASTER!!!)

3DMARK 2000 v1.1

1024X768 32bc 32bt 24bz Triple Frame Buffer

HARDWARE T&L/P3/SOFTWARE T&L

3DMARKS=5100/4330/2946

HELICOPTER
Low =101.5/79.7/50.0
Med = 74.2/56.9/33.8
High= 40.0/31.9/20.4

Adventure
Low =105.6/100.8/79.0
Med = 63.8/ 56.8/40.0
High= 39.7/ 34.8/22.3

[DuRaNgO]

kinda crummy software t&l score isn't it?

[DosFreak]

Nvidia 7.xx drivers are extremely beta. I was getting ALOT better software T&L scores with 6.34 drivers but FAR worse hardware T&L.

[DuRaNgO]

still good overall scores though

[SCompRacer]

After making adjustments in BIOS and no overclocking of CPU or G400MAX, I get 3,219 now in the default benchmark.

This is with Direct X 7 and the 5.41 drivers on my IDE games drive. My SCSI drive had the 5.52 drivers with Direct X 8, and best there in default benchmark was 3,025.

ABIT KT7 non-RAID * 900MHz Athlon T'bird * 128MB Micron PC/133 RAM * Two Cheetah LVD's * Barracuda UW * DiamondMAX IDE * Plextor Ultraplex 40max/Plexwriter 12/4/32 * Hitachi IDE DVD * 2940U2W * SB Live * 3Com 905B-TX NIC * 3Com Courier V. Ext. * Hollywood + * Win 98SE, Win 2000 *


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