3DMark change its rating scheme? More for high-end?

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A weird situation.
Some months ago I had used Futuremark's 3DMark to benchmark my system,
and was getting numbers around 3970. This was the 3DMark that started
with the WWII air combat and had the two chess playing ogres.

Since then, the only change to my hardware has been replacing an IDE HD
with a SATA-150 drive. The BIOS settings are otherwise the same.
The same WinXP Pro OS, just reinstalled, and I'm using the latest
Catalyst driver 6.14.10.6553 (6/28/2005).

I downloaded the latest free 3DMark, ver. 1.2.0. And it barely runs
above 1FPS and ends up with numbers like 1010.

What in the world? How can that happen? I improve the hardware, and I'm
sudenly slow as molasses? Am I missing something?!

Thanks for any advice!
Liam

AMD AthalonXP 3200+
EP-8RDA3+ (nForce2) mobo
Radeon 9600XT 256MB
512MB PC3200 RAM
160GB SATA-150 HD
 
Ah, nevermind.
Went back to the site to see what I'd missed, and realized that before
I was using 3DMark03 to get the near 4000 scores, and tonight I'd
d-loaded and used 3DMark05 and got the 1010.

(Don't know what in the world 05 is testing for that gives me 3000 less
points....)
But, that explains the discrepancy.
Sorry. =)
Liam
 
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