3dmark06 score relevance?

So I did my civic duty as a forum poster to download and run 3dmark06. Scored 8281 stock and 9022 oc'ed. The numbers though, however good or bad, seem not to mean much. Are there any generalized scales out there that say OK you scored xxxx and you can play this group of games at this resolution with little to no difficulty. I mean are the scores just simply numbers that have no corelation to anything. How can they be relevant? Just a question from a somewhat perplexed poster. Thanks in advance for replies.

Interesting idea about the generalised scales. I don't remember seeing anything of the sort anywhere.
My opinion though is that programs such as 3Dmark are not relevant in informing us about actual gameplay.
OK, a card that scores 10000 is indeed better than one that scores 5000 but that's it really. If you want to know how your card will perform, relative to other cards, in the games you prefer, check D3D games or OpenGL games. These are the basic two groups of games that show a card's capabilities.
After that you can check games based on a particular graphics engine (ie Doom3, Half Life 2) to get an idea.

The idea of using scores to assess the competence of your system though, seems to be coming to fruition with Vista. As it has it's little rating system and I believe games are going to start coming out with a Vista rating so that you can use it to decide if you have the computational power to play said game. I wish that they could somehow apply that same type of scaling to 3dmark06 as 1) it's free (unlike Vista) and 2) a huge number or users all ready know their score.

Fool those who measure their pc by 3dmarks benches. I can have the topest cpu and a riva tnt in it, and it won't even score a lolish Zero, yet it's still awesome for everything besides gaming.

I hate this Vista scoring system. It implies that consumers are retarded, that they couldn't figure it out by comparing the spec of their system with the requirements. And if they can't, well they shouldn't be buying the game, cause they sure won't know how to install it!

Actually Futuremark just released a tool that does just that on it's new gamers website.

It scans your pc and then gives you a general idea of how your pc can handle a game and gives you an idea where you might be lacking. It has over a 100 games on it too, so chance are whatever game you're thinking about will be on there.

Here's the link
http://www.yougamers.com/

wow, thanks for the link/info grifter. That's the type of useful measuring stick I was thinking of.

P.S. gste- I was not offended by your retarded comment, your point was very valid. But thanks for pointing out the "harshness"

Also, try http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/referrer/srtest