GeForce2 GTS 3dmark2001 2958 is that too low?

hatimh

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I have an Athlon Thunderbird 1.4GHz with MSI Geforce2 GTS 64MB is a score of 2958 for 3dmark2001 normal do you think?

I just was wondering, thanks :)

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on wat res? AA enabled? double or triple buffering? ... wat colour depth? ...give more detail.
my GF2 Ti gets a score of 5372 on 1024x768x16 with no AA and double buffering.
 

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Hmm, you shoud be able to get around 1k higher. Post the rest of your system specs. OS, Ram, Mobo, programs you have running while your benchmarking, etc...

But the main thing is, how well are your games playing and are you happy with them?

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hatimh

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Well could you give me the default settings and I'll set those up and run the test again.

I have:

MSI GeForce GTS Pro 64MBddr
AMD Athlon 1200 MHz running @ 1387 292 (146DDR) MHz FSB
512 MB DDR SDRAM unbuffered, non-parity. CL(Cache Latency) 2.5 running at CL 2 300 MHz FSB
MSI K7 Master (motherboard)
IBM Deskstar 60 GXP 41.2 GB HDD
Creative Soundblaster Live 5.1
Creative DTT2200 Surround 5.1 Speakers
Plexwriter W1610A 16xW 10xRW 32xR
Samsung DVD ROM 8xR (40xR CD)
Enermax 350 Watt Dual fan power supply
Budget standard tower case. 2 case fans.
Intellimouse optical
IOMega internal Zip 250MB IDE

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your scores are a bit low I have a PIII@840 256mb ram with a 32mb gts and get about 2900 with the vid card at stock speed
 

hatimh

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What I'd like to do is just get all the settings right, I'll go into my bios and check the settings there. Then I'd like to try overclocking a little after that.

What is the best, safest Geforce overclocking tool available? Free of course :)

Thanks.

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Well there is this tool that Nvidia put with their drivers. Here are the steps to unlock a "NVTweak" utility. First you run "regedit" then go into HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\NVIDIA Corporation\Global\. There you have to add the DWORD "CoolBits". After creating that right click and modify. Put as a hexadecimal base 3. Reboot you're system and go into display and then setting and then advanced, and then click on the tab of your video card, then there should be a button that says "Additional Properties" There you can set your AA and overclock. You can only go so far with this program, but as I am not a hardcore overclocker, I don't care. I don't even know if it's with all Nvidia cards, but I know it works with mine. There are other utilities on download.com. Search for them and then read the user comments. Quite useful.
 

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You forgot one of the most important things....The Operating System, Win9x/ME/2k/XP etc..

First thing you always want to do is disable programs running in your background when benchmarking. Virus, AOL, cdtrays, realplayer, and so forth.

Update your video card drivers, I reccommend getting them from the MSI's websight instead of Nvidia's. Make sure you uninstall your old drivers prior to installing newer ones.

For overclocking head over to <A HREF="http://www.geforcetweak.com" target="_new">GeforceTweak</A>. It is a useful utility and it will allow overclocking without you having to manually play with the registry settings.

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OR, you can get rivatuner from guru3d.com, easier to do, with no registry risks, as well as even more options to tweak in.

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For the defaults just hit the "defaults" button.

They should be 1024x768x32, no AA, double frame buffer, compressed textures, 32bit z-buffer, D3D hardware T&L.

I run 2700 on a Radeon 32 SDR (not DDR) so I'm thinking your score is rather low. And I'm only at AGP 2x as well.

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hatimh

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Thanks to all of you for replies.

I'll definitely check these tweaks out and let you know.

I know someone must have asked these questions below and so I appreciate the people are still bothered to reply again even though they may be repeating themselves.

Cheers.

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