3DMarks of your old puter

The slowest benchmark from all time it 73 point with a S3 trio magic for windows 95.I have try with a big old crap with the THE S3 MAGIC... ECS board no name HD no name RAM ALL no name except the fan dont seen to be original.

73 point overall 0.1 FPS overall

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RE: everybody.

so would you all say that with the old processors, the whole kaboodle is not even using the Video card to it potential.

I mean, phsstpok has that GF2 GTS and he went from 780 to 3400 marks just by doubling his CPU clock speed. Does that mean if I get the Duron 1GHz I was hoping for, my marks will go up to 3000 or so.

Ta for the feedback, this is exactly what i wanted to know.

Most interesting is Crashmans PIII-933 with MX400.. and 2800 marks I think.
that's what I'd be hoping for.

thanks again.


I spilled coffee all over my wife's nighty... ...serves me right for wearing it?!?

Heh to let you feel good of old times, my old P2 350 with Voodoo 3 2000, did 1077 pts in 3d Mark 2000. I assume many tests were also skipped...!

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I used Coolbits on driver revision 6.31

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Sorry, I don't want to mislead you. On my 1007mhz Duron system both my cards were overclocked. The approximate scores for stock speeds were 2100, Geforce256 SDR, and 2900 for the Geforce2 GTS-V (at least to the best of my memory). A stock Geforce2 MX400 will perform closer to the Geforce256 SDR than the Geforce2 GTS-V.

Actually, I upgraded to the Duron while I still was using the Geforce256 SDR but I didn't save a score for that card with the K6-2. Later when I got the GTS-V card I was curious and tested it with the K6-2. The K6-2 is unable to keep up with either card. Overclocking the video cards didn't improve scores on that machine


Checkout the Madonion site and use ORB, Online Results Browser. It will give you an idea of what is possible with various videocard/CPU combinations. The top scorers are always overclocked video cards.

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but what we're saying is that by ramping my CPU up from a 450MHz dog to something like a Duron 1GHz I can *nearly* triple my 3D performance.. (ie 3 times 860 is only 2600 or so, which seems perfectly reasonable based on yuor scores.)

that is very weird.. does the CPU in my case, actually slow down the video card??

interesting -> when i tried Software rendering on the K6/2-450 I got 440 marks... I expected worse.

I spilled coffee all over my wife's nighty... ...serves me right for wearing it?!?

The CPU can be the limiting factor. If the CPU is fast enough then the videocard becomes the limiting factor. Take my Geforce2 GTS-V, for instance. On the K6-2 system it scored 778 3DMarks. Move up to a Duron at 1007 mhz and it scored 3442, big jump in performance. However, when I pair the same video card with a Tbird 1.0 @ 1.5 ghz (150*10) my score only increased to only 4047. That's about 50% increase in processor clockspeed but only a 15% increase in the benchmark score. Clearly, the video card is holding back performance here.

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