14-02-2004 15:52									#1
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How beasty is the PC you play games on? I just finished my new machine. It got 5391 on 3dMark03, and 14744 on 3dMark2001. What are your scores? Be careful the 3dMark03 tests are pretty taxing.

Specs:

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
Athlon XP 2600+ Barton, 333FSB
Radeon 9800 Pro
1GB twinned PC3200 RAM

	14-02-2004 16:17									#2
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike How beasty is the PC you play games on?

Mine howls at the moon occasionally, does that count?

	14-02-2004 16:33									#3
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I don't recall that being one of the 3dMark tests.

	14-02-2004 16:59									#4
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Will tell when I recieve my graphics card

	14-02-2004 17:12									#5
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What are your specs?

	14-02-2004 17:58									#6
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ADG, you (finally) dropped your 9600??

	14-02-2004 18:04									#7
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MB : AK77-8X-Max
PR : 2000XP (AMD)
MEM : 756 DDR (2100 or 2700 not sure)
HD : 1 x 40 GB & 1 x 80GB
GR : 9600 ATI

Just cleaned my CPU fan. - sit down at ths point -
temperature dropped 20C. , no wonder I experiencing some problems lately.
For the first time in many, many months I able to close the damn box

	14-02-2004 18:11									#8
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We want 3d benchmarking scores! Google for 3dmark2001 download, since 3dmark03 will be choppy on your machine I think.

	14-02-2004 18:20									#9
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I think uninstalled it a few weeks ago, sorry.

Maybe later

	14-02-2004 19:14									#10
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quote: Originally posted by alva ADG, you (finally) dropped your 9600??

Yep

I sent it to repair, but they said I wont get it back before April, so I asked if I could change the card to another one... Still waiting for a response to see if they accepts it...



Since I re-inserted my Geforce 3 TI200 card everything has been working MUCH MUCH better... there's NO WAY I'm going insert another Ati card within the next MANY years

	14-02-2004 19:15									#11
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike What are your specs?

For now:

P4 2.4 GHz
1 gb PC2700 Ram
Graphics card yet to be determened...

	14-02-2004 19:36									#12
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Nice.........you should be able to beat me if you get the Radeon 9800 Pro.

	14-02-2004 19:49									#13
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With the problems I had with 9600...! No WAY!!!

	14-02-2004 20:11									#14
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You can get problems with any card. The high end Radeons are the best cards.

	14-02-2004 20:13									#15
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What problems? It might just be a fluke but you don't want to take that chance with a $200/300 piece of hardware.

Anyways, I got somewhere around 3000/4000 (forgot) in 3DMark03 with:
A7N8X Deluxe
Athlon XP 2700+
768MB Ram (I think it's DDR2100)
Radeon 9600 AIW

	14-02-2004 20:38									#16
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I lied, it was 1580 (but I didn't bother to close any other processes etc.)

	14-02-2004 20:42									#17
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Darn, I thought my specs were good .

Oh well, I will wait until 64bit is standard though before upgrading
( everything this time)

	14-02-2004 20:59									#18
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quote: Originally posted by MattH What problems? It might just be a fluke but you don't want to take that chance with a $200/300 piece of hardware.

After having the same problems both before and after a complete reformat, it's pretty obious that the problem is the card...


The problems is: It made 50% of my games unplayable... and TV-out sucked very much (Lower picture quality than the Geforce 3 card, just to mention one of the problems with the tv-out)

The advantage: ONE game got a higher frame-rate



I'm a little scared about the card I'm about to switch it to. In a test of this card they mentioned that this card's video-quality was finally (?) on the same level as Ati cards... this probably means the quality went down... WAY DOWN!!!

	14-02-2004 21:19									#19
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Now don't go all nutso . I'm sure that not all ATi cards are terrible, why else do they keep getting such good reviews? Another interesting read (couldn't tell if there was one superior brand), but Ananad tech is leaining toward Nvidia in their Q1 2004 overview. Anyways, I'm just rambling again.....

OOoh, OOh! On-topic: ~6500 in 2001!




p.s. RMA the bad stuff!

	14-02-2004 21:34									#20
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Matt........worth considering that our board will use RAM more efficiently if it's paired and you have a identical stick in slots 1 and 3.

Other than that it's amazing to see how much a difference the 9800Pro makes over the 9600Pro.

	14-02-2004 21:36									#21
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ADG: The card is fine, and you should look harder at what could cause the incompatibility.

	14-02-2004 21:38									#22
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After spending over 2 months of looking, I'm happy to have gotten rid of it...

	14-02-2004 21:43									#23
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Well strange stuff does happen, and it's a pig when it happens to you.

However, I'd still buy the 9700Pro or 9800Pro if it were me and I was looking for a card.

	14-02-2004 23:06									#24
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Spike: I have 3x256MB.

	14-02-2004 23:41									#25
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Hmm, not sure if the board's feature works with that setup. What does it say on the post screen about the RAM? You have to skip the logo screen if you still have it turned on.

	15-02-2004 00:35									#26
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3dMark scores?

	15-02-2004 05:18									#27
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P4 - 2.4 GHz processor with 800 MHz FSB (Intel)
865G Bayfield motherboard (Intel)
1,024 MB DDR400 RAM (Corsair)
ATi Radeon 9500 - 128 MB (Club 3D)
120 MB S-ATA harddisk (Maxtor)

	15-02-2004 06:08									#28
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike 3dMark scores?

	15-02-2004 06:58									#29
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I did 3dmark2001 on a laptop here. it's a pentium1200 (or 1400?) witha gef2 Go and I reckon 512 MB ram. Nothing special, don't even know the specs that well.

have 2337 on it. I'll do it again on my desktop later on when I have access to it .

	15-02-2004 16:43									#30
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That's interesting. My old machine, which was an Athlon 1.2Ghz (running slightly faster with a FSB overclock) and a moderate card got a rubbish score on 2001, something like 1500 I think.