What's a good 3Dmark for ATI 8500 ???

[sdwilly]

I've just put a retail 8500 64mbDDR from Newegg in my system.

Specs:

Abit KT7-Raid
Duron 200FSB 1.0 Gig
IBM 7200 Rpm HD
Sound Blaster Live
etc.

With latest drivers (and old ones properly deleted)
I get 5600+ default benchmark.

Is there / should there be any tweaking I would need to do ??

Thanks in advance.

 

[Reliant]

I would have to say that those numbers are very respectable for a Duron.
What type of RAM you running and how much?

 

[sdwilly]

Opps Sorry

Crucial 256 mb Cas2 133

Thanks

I thought my Proc. might be the problem.

 

[UnTech]

With 3DMark2001 default benchmark and a Radeon 8500 Retail I get a score of 6400

In the same system with a GeForce 3 Ti 200 (200/450) I get a score of 5300+


Rig

P-III EB 1GHz
Asus TUSL2-C
512 RAM 133 MHz
40 GB 7200 ATA 100
SB Live Audigy
Win 98 SE

 

[Reliant]

I used to run a 1.2Ghz T-bird with a 200mhz fsb and 256mb PC133 and an 8500 and I got around 6500.
So you probably won't get too much more out of 3dMark unless you upgrade, but I don't think you need to.

 

[Tates]

I've got a Tualatin Celeron 1 ghz running at 1450 mhz, and I'm getting aroung 8300. But hey, it's just a synthetic benchmark. Jedi Knight II:Jedi Outcast I got 85-100 fps running it at 1600x1200 with full eye candy. Now that's something to behold.

 

[SSXeon5]

7206 with P3 1000@1200Mhz Radeon 8500 64MB 300/600

SSXeon

 

[Joemonkey]

I used to have a rig somewhat similar to yours... an athlon 1Ghz, KT7A Raid, and 768 megs of PC133 CAS 3 generic RAM, and my score then was around 5400

So seems to ME anyway, that score seems about normal... however now i get 9316 with my current rig.

 

[sdwilly]

Thanks for all the help guys.

I'm not much of a gamer anyway, it was mostly a pride thing.

I did do a little tweaking w/ PStrip to 300/300, but 3DMark would lock up.

Just for the record,

the first two test (Car Chase - High / Low Detail) get 80-100 FPS, and 15-28 FPS.

I'm not real happy with that, so I guess another upgrade is in the making.


Once again, thanks for all the input.

 

[acidvoodoo]

are these relatively high scores (to me), due to better drivers?(talking about ATI)
because in the anandtech G4 test didn't like a athlon XP 2000, 256mb DDR,radeon 8500 get around 8800?

i just ordered an athlon XP 1900, 512mb ddr, radeon le, should i expect 7000+?

 

[Jwyatt]

I just broke 10k with my p4 1.6@2.5g! Upped the mem and gpu core to 285 and bam...10k! I jumped it up to 290 and its running again now.

The 4600 I just returned I finally got it to 12320 or something around there, so I think 10k from a geforce3 ti500 contender is great. The visuals are better with the 8500 as well!

 

[EMAN]

3dmark 2k1 is a product that makes you think you need to buy better computer hardware. When in fact games should be the deciding factor.

 

[HikkiFan]

I'm running 1.6ghz2.133(533 fsb), th7II, 2x 128 samsung rambus ram and I get like 9756 points in 3dmark with an non overclockes radeon 8500. 6000 is kinda low for your rig

 

[Markster]

Ick...

Way to make me feel bad! I only get 4900!

But, at least I know that it's my 750 Duron that's the problem now!

The upside to a CPU limited system: I run everything with at least 2XAA. I run UT at 800x600 with 6XAA, and I only lose about 5fps compared to no AA. (33 to 28)

 

[rbV5]

I get 5300 with my AIW 7500, yours does seem a bit low.

 

[Markster]

AIW means "All in Wonder", right?

What's your processor? Is it a 750 too? Otherwise, we're just proving my point, that I need a faster one.

 

[rbV5]

<< AIW means "All in Wonder", right? >>


Right. I've got an overclocked 1.4 GHz TBird actually, per my rig specs which certainly doesn't hurt the score.

 

[Barrei]

I got 5312 in 3dmark 2001 s.e. with a hercules Geforce2ti O/C to 270/460 , stock is 250/400.However my system is a little more powerful then sdwilly's.