Low 3dMark Scores

[MetaPhaze]

Hi folks, I have a question I'm hoping someone can help me with. I am scoring rather low (IMHO) with Mad Onion's 3d Mark Bench test. I score at 2748 3d Mark Points. However I thought I would score in or around mid 4000's to low 5000's. My system specs are to follow

CPU: Intel P4 Intel 3.0Ghz (800Mhz FSB w/ HT)
Mobo: Intel D865PERL
RAM: Kingston PC3200 512MB x2 @ 800Mhz
Video: ATI Radeon 9800 Pro AIW (128MB)
Operating System: Windows 2000 SP4

What do you guys think? Any suggestions to raise the scores!?

[The village idiot]

Gee... wish I had your machine. Is you DX up to date? Anything else running while you do this test? Try another test from someone else? Where is a link to get to this test, maybe I'll test my sad little machine.

By your system specs, that machine should really crank! Maybe another Gig of memory wouldn't hurt, but that is getting picky. Maybe you need updated drivers for the video card? Maybe a bios update? You've probably already done all that, but there isn't much else to check. Could your hard drive be slowing things down? Is DMA enabled?

[The village idiot]

free version:

http://www.futuremark.com/download/?pcmark2002.shtml

[The village idiot]

OK, wrong test. But this is what one machine scored off of the free test from above.

Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000

DirectX Version 8.1



Mobo Manufacturer

Mobo Model EPIA-M

AGP Rates (Current/Available) 4x / 1x 2x 4x



CPU Unknown 932 MHz

FSB 133 MHz

Memory 112 MB



Graphics Chipset VIA ProSavage Series

Driver Name VIA/S3G CLE266 Graphics Driver 5.13.01.0012-01.10.01

Driver Version 5.13.01.0012-01.10.01

Video Memory 16 MB



Detailed Test Results
CPU Score 858

Memory Score 739

HDD Score 566



CPU Tests

Jpeg Decoding 2.9 MPixels/s

Zlib Compression 1.4 MB/s

Zlib Decompression 16.4 MB/s

Text Search 28.3 KRounds/s

Audio Conversion 13.5 KB/s

3D Vector Calculation 11.0 FPS



Memory Tests

Raw Block Read - 3072KB 194.4 MB/s

Raw Block Read - 536KB 194.8 MB/s

Raw Block Read - 384KB 195.7 MB/s

Raw Block Read - 48KB 3755.3 MB/s

Raw Block Read - 6KB 3716.8 MB/s

Raw Block Write - 3072KB 185.0 MB/s

Raw Block Write - 1536KB 175.0 MB/s

Raw Block Write - 384KB 193.5 MB/s

Raw Block Write - 48KB 2337.8 MB/s

Raw Block Write - 6KB 2324.3 MB/s

Raw Block Modify - 3072KB 143.6 MB/s

Raw Block Modify - 536KB 140.6 MB/s

Raw Block Modify - 384KB 146.2 MB/s

Raw Block Modify - 48KB 2077.3 MB/s

Raw Block Modify - 6KB 2056.2 MB/s

Random Access - 24576 (1536KB) items 182.4 MB/s

Random Access - 12288 (768KB) items 182.3 MB/s

Random Access - 6144 (384KB) items 183.0 MB/s

Random Access - 1536 (96KB) items 396.5 MB/s

Random Access - 768 (48KB) items 1235.5 MB/s

Random Access - 96 (6KB) items 1243.7 MB/s

Video - 1 line 335.8 FPS

Video - 4 lines 316.9 FPS

Video - 16 lines 253.9 FPS

Video - 32 lines 202.6 FPS



Hard Disk Tests

Cached File Write 18.4 MB/s

Uncached File Write 27.2 MB/s

Cached File Read 9.5 MB/s

Uncached File Read 26.9 MB/s

File Copy 7.9 MB/s



Crunch Tests

Jpeg Decoding 2.1 MPixels/s

Raw Block Modify - 3072KB 62.5 MB/s

Blit Test 66.4 FPS



Pro Version - Windows XP 2D Tests

Lines N/A

Ellipses N/A

Arcs N/A

Beziers N/A

Curves N/A

Filled Ellipses N/A

Gradient Boxes N/A

Gradient Polygons N/A

Filled Pies N/A

Images N/A

Cached Bitmaps N/A

Strings N/A



Pro Version - Video Performance Tests

ASF Compression - Low N/A

ASF Compression - High N/A

ASF Playback - Low N/A

ASF Playback - High N/A

DVD Playback - Low Quality N/A

DVD Playback - High Quality N/A



Pro Version - Video Quality Tests

Line Flicker N/A

Feathering N/A

Double Images N/A

Jaggies N/A

Tearing N/A

Note: no 3D testing.

This is an Epia M-9000 itx board, with a lowly ata33 hard drive, and shared memory. I'll see if I can find a free 3D reference.

[The village idiot]

http://www.futuremark.com/download/?3dmark03.shtml

for 3D mark. REQUIES DX 9.0+

[The village idiot]

Same machine with DX9.0b

Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000

DirectX Version 9.0



Mobo Manufacturer

Mobo Model EPIA-M

AGP Rates (Current/Available) 4x / 1x 2x 4x



CPU Unknown 932 MHz

FSB 133 MHz

Memory 112 MB



Graphics Chipset VIA ProSavage Series

Driver Name VIA/S3G CLE266 Graphics Driver 5.13.01.0012-01.10.01

Driver Version 5.13.01.0012-01.10.01

Video Memory 16 MB



Program Version 3DMark2001 SE

Resolution 800x600 16bit

Texture Format 32bit

FSAA Disabled

Z-Buffer Depth 32bit

Frame Buffer Double

Rendering Pipeline D3D Software T&L



Detailed Test Results
3DMark Score 440 3D marks



Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 4.7 FPS

Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 1.3 FPS

Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 4.4 FPS

Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 1.4 FPS

Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 15.6 FPS

Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 7.0 FPS

Game 4 Nature No hardware support



Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 96.5 MTexels/s

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 123.0 MTexels/s



High Polygon Count (1 light) 0.6 MTriangels/s

High Polygon Count (8 lights) N/A



Environment Bump Mapping No hardware support

DOT3 Bump Mapping 20.1 FPS



Vertex Shader 2.1 FPS

Pixel Shader No hardware support

Advanced Pixel Shader No hardware support



Point Sprite 0.2 MSprites/s

I had to use the 3D2001 bench mark. The newer 3D2003 would not run!

[g_shocker182]

Mine:

CPU 4450
Mem: 3100
hdd score: n/a

I'm proud considering I got more than a 3.0 Ghz P4 on a 2Ghz celeron!

[The village idiot]

Contrast, again the 3D2001 tests. The machine in my profile only gave a 3D score of 850.

[MetaPhaze]

Yeah thanks for your responses, I have DX9 as the test requires it and it comes with the ATI Drivers. Since all my hardware is so new I figured my drivers don't need updating. I will check into the ATI Drivers, but I don't want to do a BIOS flash since everything is working properly on that end of the stick.

HOWEVER I determined today that I am going to get another Hard Drive and run it in RAID Mode 0 since I hear that really helps with Hard Disk speed. I have a Western Digital 7,200 RPM UDMA 100 100GB Drive now, so I really don't think the Hard Drive is the problem. I know I can get faster ones but that should suffice, and since I'm going RAID I will get double the throughput. Any other suggestions folks?