Is this a good 3DMark 2003 score?

5482? Is this a good score? or bad? What is considered today's average score?

I get about 5600 at stock speeds.
My sys:
2700+
a7n8x
2x256mb corsair xms 3500 (sync with fsb, i.e. 333)
9800 Pro

OCd i get 6600.

Thats with cat. 3.4s.

"Every Day is the Right Day." -Pink Floyd<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Willamette_Sucks on 06/26/03 04:37 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

You know, that is what truly gets me about this benchmarking. you can get great scores providing you shut down 2/3rds of your system to aquire it.

why does everyone put stock on a benchmark that requires you to shut off your sound to squeeze out a mark that you would use on a game? ie the sound?

as long as your game plays smoothly, and you have fun beating on tkers
isnt that the whole point to the purchase?

that truly just gets away with me on this whole benchmark thing.
I"unlike thomas and the rest of you" like to hear ppl's guts explode when im nearby them. i would worry less on the benchmark and more on your ablity to kick my butt in the real world."which wouldnt happen anyways. but there you go "

I hope you all appreciate your scores, I got 172 in 3dMark03. System specs in bio

<i>Royal Fusileres, Company C</i>

172? Is the mx a dx7 card? I thought it was, but now someone will probably shoot me for asking. I get 1048 with my R8500, but my system blows.

Athlon 1800+@1.15ghz
512 SDRam
R8500 @275,275 (stock speeds)
100mhz fsb.

What's wrong with your XP1800+? why runs at 100Mhz FSB?

If you installed the Patch for 03 you should not be getting such high score anymore. Check THG and other sources.

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You have no idea how much I wish I knew. It crashes when I run at 133mhz fsb. I've been trying to get it to work for the past 7 months with no luck.

Oh yeah!
Indeed. Which is weird when you think about it. If they disabled it in the 330 patch, then why really remove them in the drivers as well if they ain't workin' no more?

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I do have the 330 patch, and the Cat. 3.5s, which also removes the optimizations.
But ATI's optimizations only increased performance about 2%.
Performance did go down a little. I got 5606 w/cat 3.4s/320 patch, and like 5578 with the 330 patch and 3.5s.

"Every Day is the Right Day." -Pink Floyd<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Willamette_sucks on 06/30/03 00:22 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

HMmm that still sounds far from the new result most get with even higher ended systems.
I do feel you may not be using the best settings. Either that or your system is so empty of programs that you don't even have a Notepad service!

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Ah well if it's THAT overclocked, then I can understand where the points come from!

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