Lowest 3DMark Scores

[Stormcrow]

Originally Posted by Zambini

Only on the CPU tests... and even then, it doesn't affect the 3d marks that much. This is primarily a gpu torturer.

Unless I'm mistaken

It gives you an average based on GPU and CPU performance, as both are critical to games. Since dual cores have yet to be optimized for games aside from SupremeCom, what really matters most is raw speed. Even with a second core, at 2Ghz my CPU is a bottleneck. 3Dmark itself recommends 2.5 or higher Looks like it's overclock time until Phenom rolls out.

RAID, I now officially envy you. Feel special.

[RA1D]

i'll be feeling really special next week when a couple of things get delivered.

[JazzyJake]

just for comparision at left-click we just built a rig that gets 9,865 in 06. BEFORE tweaking/overclocking.
core 2 quad 2.94GHz
8800gts

[Stormcrow]

You guys make me sad for my bargain processor.

[Zambini]

it almost makes me want to buy a new mobo/cpu

But I think just buying a new mobo would be good enough.
but then my rev.2 mobo would be sad and probably collecting dust

[Bokranator]

i got 274 with my sparkle 6200 but what i dont get is this...
my cpu is a p4 3.2ghz and i have a mate whos has a similar system but a c2d 2.66 ghz but his out performs the p4 now erm i dunno but is their any significant differences in the performance between the 2 chips. our systems r very similar but his mobo is diff the encourporate the c2d.

[Jokerswild]

Oh if I only had my old celeron 466 and my MX400 pci video card.

[Stormcrow]

Originally Posted by Bokranator

i got 274 with my sparkle 6200 but what i dont get is this...
my cpu is a p4 3.2ghz and i have a mate whos has a similar system but a c2d 2.66 ghz but his out performs the p4 now erm i dunno but is their any significant differences in the performance between the 2 chips. our systems r very similar but his mobo is diff the encourporate the c2d.

The Core2 totally wastes the P4. The Pentium 4 has to be the most architecturally flawed processor, Intel concentrated on only scaling up the speeds and not on making good use of them. A 2.0ghz Athlon 64 would walk all over that P4, its just how inefficient the processor is. Core2 uses a completely different architecture thats far more efficient, so while your Pentium 4 may be technically faster, the Core2 is making much better use of it's clock cycles and putting the P4 to shame. Do a google search for Megahertz Myth.

[Bokranator]

how does cache sizes affect 3dmark scores for example: would an e4400 clocked to 2.4ghz beat an e6600?

[Elysium]

Originally Posted by Zambini

it almost makes me want to buy a new mobo/cpu

But I think just buying a new mobo would be good enough.
but then my rev.2 mobo would be sad and probably collecting dust

Sell it!