New results from my slow Pentium!!! 700E & G400Max...

[Dr.Matrox]

Here's some new results!
I include (ALLMOST!) all info from the benchmark.

This is what I get with:
PentiumIII OEM 700E Mhz (not overclocked)
Matrox G400 Max (not overclocked)
192Mb Ram (PC-100) (128Mb of NEC, 2 x 32Mb NoName)
Windows98 SE
18GB Harddrive
Newest drivers for G400 Max (Not the betadrivers!!!)
DirectX 7a

2595 3DMarks

Display:
Type: Internal
Width: 1024
Height: 768
Depth: 16Bit
Buffering: Triple
Z-Buffering: 16Bit
Refresh Rate: VSync Off
Texture Format: 16Bit

Options:
Sound Enable: Yes
CPU Optimization: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III

Results:
3DMark Results: 2595
CPU Speed: 160
Game1-Helicopter-Low: 53,2 FPS
Game1-Helicopter-Medium: 34,5 FPS
Game1-Helicopter-High: 14,3 FPS
Game2-Adventure-Low: 57,9 FPS
Game2-Adventure-Medium: 35,6 FPS
Game2-Adventure-High: 20,8 FPS
Fill Rate(Single-Texturing): 270,0 MTexels/s
Fill Rate(Multi-Texturing): 268,1 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 light): 1607 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (4 light): 1532 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 light): 1427 KTriangles/s
8MB Texure Rendering Speed: 224,1 FPS
16MB Texure Rendering Speed: 210,5 FPS
32MB Texure Rendering Speed: 136,3 FPS
64MB Texure Rendering Speed: 71,6 FPS
Bumb Mapping (Emboss,3-pass): 99,3 FPS
Bumb Mapping (Emboss,2-pass): 126,4 FPS
Bumb Mapping (Emboss,1-pass): 225,5 FPS
Bumb Mapping (Environment): 94,0 FPS

Would It help much with 2XAGP? I think I have it on 1x now...

[This message has been edited by Dr.Matrox (edited 14 July 2000).]

[The PIT]

It does seem a little low

[Bursar]

Something I should have mentioned earlier really:

Don't run the benchmarks with the sound turned on (to be honest, I didn't know there was any sound).

It's gonna sap some of those CPU cycles, so turn it off and repeat the tests.

Also, turn off anything running in the background (Seti, Anti-Virus and so-on).

[Sisyfos]

I like playing my games with sound on, so whats the use disabling sound?

Oh, I know. It's just like sawing off your hmm thingy and extend it whith a 10 inch stick. Now it's very long but it won't function.

Well that's two threads I've infested with my raunchy insinuations. Maybe I ought to do something about it....hrmmm

[Bursar]

Running games with sound on is fine, but when you benchmark, you are usually trying to get as high a performance figure as possible.

Most of the gaming sites (or hardware sites) that run framerate tests on games have the sound turned off. It's mostly done to see exactly how fast a game engine runs on a particular platform with a certain set of features enabled.

[chip]

I got ATHLON THUNDERBIRD @700mhz
got 4007 3dmarks using matrox g400 vanilla.

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IT'S NEVER FAST ENOUGH!

[Bursar]

I don't think it will make much difference. I got 2988 marks with a P3 650cu, 256MB PC-100 RAM, G400 MAX and Win2k (no overclocking).

My AGP is only running at 1x as the machine locks up when I try to put it any higher.

A friend of mine has a similar spec PC but with 384 MB RAM, and I narrowly beat him on every single test, and his MAX is running at 2x.