Low 3dmark at 862Mhz

[Hitmann]

When I run 3dmark2000, I get confusing result
At 800Mhz, 3DMark Result:2980 3D marks
CPU Speed:256 CPU 3D marks
At 862Mhz, 3DMark Result:2800 3D marks
CPU Speed:202 CPU 3D marks
Why does the scores go down at higher freq.
I change nothing except FSB.
My system: W98se
PIII800
G400DH, not OC
IBM 30G, 7200RPM
ABIT BE6-II, HPT 370 controller
PCI128 Sound Card
Diamond Supra Max, Internal
Logitech Wheel mouse
IOMEGA CDRW 8432

[Himself]

That's very low, I get 3059 with a V3 and a Duron 800, that benchmark is biased towards the P3 so you should be getting much higher.

My cpu rating is 219.

Oh, there is a bug in the program that allows for people to report higher scores than they should be getting, so it might be related to that, so check with some other benchmark program if you suspect hardware problems.

[The PIT]

Perhaps something was still loaded in memory when ran the 2nd test. Have you run it again since?

[Hitmann]

I have ran 3dMark numerous times to verify
consistency and it gives the same each time.
Changing the FSB higher should make the 3d scores go up, right.
Very perplexing.

HH

[alessandro]

I got an Athlon 1.1Ghz and an non o/c G400 MAX and i'm getting the following on 3dMark 2000:

3367 3DMarks
268 CPU 3D Marks

And by the way get the upgrade for 3Dmarks 2000, its on version 1.1 now!

[Wombat]

Not if it's making your HD drop down to PIO mode? I don't know, never ran this benchmark.

[Himself]

Hitmann,

I myself have several scores at 34xx that I have no idea where they came from, I certainly don't recall seeing them at the end of a benchmark run yet they are listed among my submissions on the madonion site. Don't take the results as being too meaningful.

[The PIT]

I wonder if your graphics card has dropped down to agp x1.

[ayoub_ibrahim]

never owned an abit board but isn't there a setting in bios called "depth of queue" or similiar which defaults at 2 but performance benchmarks rise dramatically if set to 8??

[Hitmann]

PCI List still shows x2 enabled.
Depth of queue is at 8 also.
Plan on upgrading to ATI RADEON DDR.
Can get one for 150$ USA after 50$ rebate.
Will do a direct compare after that.

[SteveC]

I got the same thing (well, similar). My benchmarks hardly increased when I overclocked. It turned out that the 'auto' settings for ram timings and so on were changing as I increased the FSB. check the queue order depth, agp speed, cas latencies and so on.

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Cheers,
Steve

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