whats the expected result for this kind of hardware even, how much is "missing" ?
what settings are You on? the ti200 was the low power version;
sse2 in p4 i would expect to make quite a difference, additionally the ram is probably a lot faster there;

Hi,

Everything is at stock/default settings. It's a clean Win98SE install. Identical to other system, only drivers are different because this is a VIA chipset and other one is Intel.

If I compare similar systems I should be getting at least 4500 3D marks.
DDR RAM and SSE2 makes a difference but not 3000 points.. 3D Mark score is mostly about the GPU.
I tested the card once more in other system and I had 5000 points.

So something is wrong but I can't figure out what..

yeah, score is way to low. You should be getting 5000-5500 points. Try reinstalling windows (i take it you are running 98) and then doing a clean install of 4.43 and forceware 43.xx

Are You sure You haven't disabled cpu L1 or L2 cache?

Try using older drivers for both the GeForce 3 and the Via chipset.

Try these for the GeForce and maybe something like 4.25 for the Via.

Hi,

thanks for all the advice, so far no luck though.

But I swapped the GPU with a Geforce TI 4200 and got following score now:

5541

This is about the same with the Geforce 3 TI 200 in my Pentium IV 1.6 Ghz (256 mb RDRAM). So there still seems to be a huge bottleneck, which I think is the motherboard MS6309 😢

3DMARK2001

3DMark Version 330

DISPLAY
Platform NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
CPU Optimization D3D Pure Hardware T&L
Width 1024
Height 768
Depth 32 bit
Z-Buffering 24 bit
Texture Format Compressed
Buffering Double
Refresh Rate Default
FSAA Mode None

OPTIONS
Show Title Screens Yes
Continuous Benchmark No
Benchmark Run Count 1
Demo Sounds Enabled Yes
Continuous Demo No
Game Sound Effects Enabled Yes
Game Music Enabled Yes
Game Detail Level Low

RESULTS
3DMark Score 5541
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 72.9 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 23.0 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 109.2 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 58.2 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 74.3 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 33.3 fps
Game 4 - Nature 34.3 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 866.4 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1912.6 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 36.0 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 6.5 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 107.2 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 117.6 fps
Vertex Shader 76.9 fps
Pixel Shader 96.7 fps
Advanced Pixel Shader 79.7 fps
Point Sprites 25.3 MSprites/s

SYSTEM INFO

System Info Version 2.2
Installation ID 0x00000000
OEM ID

CPU INFO
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS
Manufacturer Intel
Family Pentium® III
Internal Clock 1000 MHz
Internal Clock Maximum 1000 MHz
External Clock 133 MHz
Socket Designation Socket 370
Type <unknown>
Upgrade 370 Pin Socket
Capabilities MMX, CMov, RDTSC, SSE
Version Pentium III
CPUID 0x0000068a

CACHES
Level 1
Capacity 32 KB
Type Instruction, Data, Internal
Type Details Synchronous
Error Correction Type None
Associativity 4-way Set-Associative

Level 2
Capacity 128 KB
Type Instruction, Data, Internal
Type Details Synchronous
Error Correction Type None
Associativity 4-way Set-Associative

Level 3
Capacity 256 KB
Type Instruction, Data, Internal
Type Details Synchronous
Error Correction Type None
Associativity 4-way Set-Associative

Just to let you know problem seems solved.

After reinstall Win98SE I have 4500 3D 2001SE Marks with the PIII 1Ghz / Geforce 3 TI 200 so all OK now.

This seems like a good CPU/GPU combo so I keep it like that.

Thanks again for the help!

Glad to hear You fixed it.

It might be a good idea for future viewers to this post if You delete all the irrelevant information above to shrink it a bit. All below the cpu cache information would be good.