Radeon 9600 Poor 3dmark results?

[Dan Keeley]

Hi All,

Just got myself a lovely 128mb ddr radeon 9600 pro, but it's only getting
8300 3dmarks ( 3d mark 2001 SE )

This seems a tad low, At the moment i have standard drivers installed ( Came
on the CD ) OS is XP and Processor is a 2.4ghz P4... Oh, 512mb DDR ram.
(On a 4x AGP Board)

So what do i need to tweak / check? Or am i misreading the results?

It got 2400 in 3dmark03 ...

Cheers,
Dan

 

[Kristijan Korazija]

So what do i need to tweak / check? Or am i misreading the results?

Maybe you got AF and AA turned on (forced settings at Direct3D tab).
Set it on "Application preference".

 

[Dan Keeley]

Ah ha, they were on.
however turning them off lowered the score...

I've now changed a few other settings and running again, got it don to 4000
just then

hehe

once i get the best out of that i'll do the driver then the agp aperature
( if this is configurable ) and then let you guys know where i get

Thanks for the fast responses so far!!!

Rgds,.
Dan

 

[Dan Keeley]

Hmm, There isnt an AGP aperature setting ! Wish it would hit 10k though!

Weird. Not anything else i can try is there?

Cheers anyway!
Dan

Oh well, i'm up to 8600 with the new drivers at least

 

[Sam]

Hi All,

Just got myself a lovely 128mb ddr radeon 9600 pro, but it's only getting
8300 3dmarks ( 3d mark 2001 SE )

This seems a tad low, At the moment i have standard drivers installed ( Came
on the CD ) OS is XP and Processor is a 2.4ghz P4... Oh, 512mb DDR ram.
(On a 4x AGP Board)

So what do i need to tweak / check? Or am i misreading the results?

It got 2400 in 3dmark03 ...

Cheers,
Dan

With my 9600, I got 3200 with DMark2003 and 3800 with a 9500. No special
settings at all... just the way it came originally. Using Catalyst 3.6
drivers in Windows XP.

Sam

 

[O.Phooey]

r u sure it's not 3dMark 2003 ?

I have the ati sapphire Radeon 9500np softmodded to a 9700, not OC'd.
Before softmod it scored about 10K on 3d mark 2001. After softmod it
went to 12.6K. My GF2Ti 64Mb card came in at about 5K.
Ath 2400+
256Mb mushkin 2100 Hi Perf ram
epox 8kha+
Win98se
rope pull starter......

 

[Dan Keeley]

hmm, can i "softmod" my 2600? I dont know much about all this....

I played with a bit of overclocking but not done any full runs yet....

I dunno where the problem lies then, but there's clearly something wrong,
maybe it's the motherboard, a rebadged asustek one from HP... With crappy
bios NO OPTIONS AT ALL!!!

 

[Dan]

Ok, i just had a thought, does it make any difference what refresh
rate i run my monitors at?

Also i'm making use of the twin head, does that make a difference?
There's clearly something wrong, and i suspect it's something im
doing, config or a setting somewhere! I hope so anyway!