My 3DMark result is slow???

[Buratino]

I have a CardExpert Geforce 2 MX in a TB 1.2 GHz, KT7ARAID motherboard and 3DMark2000 give a score of 4550. Is that kind of slow because I knew someone getting around 7000. What should I do to improve the 3D performance of my card

Thanks ahead of time.

 

[DARRIN]

Does sound kind of low. I'm getting around 8000 with my 1.2 at 1.5 and Gladiac card. I was getting 6800 with my classic 900 athlon and my Gladiac. I'm not sure how the MX boards perform though.

 

[arod324]

Make sure that you have the via 4in1 drivers installed. My friend got 1700 first, and then afterwords got about 4500 on a geforce 2mx.

 

[Buratino]

Thanks for all your reply.
So is that 4500 is kind of standard for Geforce2 MX?? Maybe I should had got a Geforce 2 Ultra instead
Peace,

 

[arod324]

4500 is standard for unoverclocked. If you bump it to about 200/200, you'll just about hit 5000. I think that the person you knew who got 7000, probably has a Geforce 2 GTS overclocked. (that's just a guess)

 

[billyjak]

Thats standard for a MX card, my GF2 Herc gets 7818 so memorry is important along with the deeper pipeline.

 

[eeut]

4500 is the range. is cardexpert same as gainward mx card? cause my old mx core was below than nvidia specs. tried uping the core at 180 and mem 170 but got blank icons. bought asus mx card hit 4800 tb840 on +5fsb. can oc to 210/210 results 5700 default(1024*768*16bits).

 

[EJ]

Yeah that's low for your system. What drivers are you using? You might want to try the newest 6.50 drivers at nvidia.com first and then maybe see about others. But I've heard 6.50 are pretty good except they wont let you overclock. If you want to overclock with them just replace the nvqtwk.dll and nvcpl.dll(I heard you only have to replace the nvcpl.dll file though but might as well do both) in you windows/system folder with ones from 6.31 or 6.49

I'm getting 5100 on a p3 933 and a Geforce 1 SDR .



EJ

 

[max105]

dang it....what operating systems are you guys running on and how much ram are u guys using to get those scores? My Radeon can only do about 4000 marks under win2k w/128mb ram. someone told me that win2k and the drivers are the main issue...is this true?

 

[HomiePodgy]

Actually I think that Win 2K sucks @ss at gaming and everything related to 3D-graphics. Try the same card in a Win 98 or /SE box and see whats happening!

I don't have any experience with Radeon-cards but try it anyway. I think you will get a lot of better results. That is my experience with GeForce 2 GTS on Win 2K and Win98. 98 is clearly the best in games, but overall Win 2K is only beaten by Mandrake Linux.

Peace

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Linux Rules!

 

[max105]

yea...i'm thinking about just reformatting and going with win98, but win2k is much more stabler on my system overall. there are stupid driver bugs here and there, but i'd still like more performance

 

[wonder mike]

operating system is important. win2k sucks for 3d mark, but winme/win98 are great.

 

[PassatVR6]

I just ran 3dmark last night in Win2k to see how I compare:
tbird 850mhz, 512mb pc133, 8KTA3 board, w/ Creative TnT@ Ultra
everything at default settings, it got 3844. Im about to overclock my TnT2 and CPU and see what I can get. But judging from the above scores, I guess I wont be upgrading to a MX or Radeon LE just yet, ill ride with my TnT2 Ultra just a bit longer then make a decision on what vid card to get.