My 3DMark03 Mega Thread

Posted on 2017-02-15, 11:03

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Welcome to the 3DMark 2003 Mega Thread! We have a very long 3DMark01 Mega Thread with just about every hardware configuration imaginable. 3DMark01 is very sensitive to single threaded CPU and memory performance. It also takes a pretty serious performance hit on anything that isn't Win2000 or XP. …

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Re: ATI cards from 2004-2008, anything good?

Posted on 2017-02-13, 06:49

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Nvidia didn't even come close. The fastest nvidia agp card i have is the 7900gs 512mb agp and its cores 17000 points in 3dmark '03. This is on a core2dua@3ghz on an asrock board. On the same system the 3850 agp scores 30000 points (overclocked 32000) and nearly doubles the Nvidia. There was some …

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Re: AMD drops the mic

Posted on 2017-02-13, 02:37

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Full Ryzen spec and price list leaks http://techreport.com/news/31427/rumor-full-r … ist-leaks#metal 8c/16t, 16MB L3, unlocked multi, and a 65W TDP for $319 is absolutely bonkers. I just might have to order one on launch day. 😊

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Re: Ideal video card for dual 1.4ghz Piii-s?

Posted on 2017-02-09, 22:41

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If you're not targeting D3D6 games, just go for the fastest non-bridged AGP card you can get for a reasonable price. I use a 6800GT for my single P3-1575 DDR machine. At my fave retro gaming resolution of 1600x1200, it actually made a noticeable performance improvement over my previous 9800Pro with …

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Re: P-4 laptop what can be used for ?

Posted on 2017-02-09, 22:16

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Interesting. By how much roughly? What about multi-threaded benchmarks? On average, 11% for single-threaded 2D application benchmarks and 20% for single-threaded games. 3DMark01 was one of the bigger wins, with the PM being 40% faster. Pentium D 935 @ 4GHz: PD-4000 GTX560 3D01-XP.png Pentium M 755 …

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Re: P-4 laptop what can be used for ?

Posted on 2017-02-09, 18:48

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Speaking of desktop Pentium M: my experience was that across the entire line-up (when comparing top to top, middle to middle and bottom to bottom), a P4-HT desktop outperforms a P-M laptop. But you may have to account for the chipset differences (desktop has faster FSB, faster DDR and maybe other …

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Re: P-4 laptop what can be used for ?

Posted on 2017-02-06, 05:46

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If you find an actual P4 laptop, you could use it to iron your shirts. :lol: I've got an actual P4 laptop--a Toshiba with a 3.06GHz Prescott w/ HT. Mint condition, not a speck of dust in the heatsinks. And yet, it still throttles to around 1.86GHz after more than 6 minutes of CPU benchmarking, …

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Re: Voodoo5 running Windows 10 & benchmarks

Posted on 2017-02-03, 08:17

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it looks like he didn't install drivers and it's running the generic MS drivers (which are emulating stuff on the CPU) That's what I thought.. but surely the MS drivers for windows 10 couldn't support full screen Direct3D mode for an old card like this, could it? I don't know specifically, but it's …

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Re: Difference between Dell 486 machines

Posted on 2017-02-01, 02:28

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Was taking a look at some of the systems on that archive site and spotted something interesting. The OptiPlex 4xx/MXe has what looks like an ATX PSU connector. Not sure if it actually is ATX (or if it even supports soft-off for that matter), but it sure looks like a 20 pin ATX connector. That would …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-27, 17:51

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$50 got me 60 HD-DVDs and an Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive. Steve Jobs once said that Blu-ray was a bag of hurt. I wonder what he thought about HD-DVD? 😀

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Re: Pentium III 733 and ATI Radeon 9600XT

Posted on 2017-01-25, 01:06

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Keep the 9600XT. It makes absolutely no sense to downgrade the GPU just to avoid a potential CPU bottleneck. I run a 6800GT in my PIII and couldn't be happier! :blush: Which version of XP are you running? XP SP1 would run just fine on 384MB, although these days Win98SE might actually be a little …

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Re: Slowest Desktop Processor For Windows 10

Posted on 2017-01-21, 03:01

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It's not quite the slowest, but I had Win10 Anniversary running just fine on my Pentium M rig. Looks like the slowest AMD CPU supported is indeed the Sempron 2500. The slowest Intel would probably be one of the 775 Celeron Ds...I can't remember which ones supported NX (or if they all did).

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Re: Intel P6 Comparison with charts + additional CPUs

Posted on 2017-01-20, 23:30

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Added a Cache and memory performance chart. Opteron's L1 cache...dang, who knew?

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Re: What are builds you want to make someday?

Posted on 2017-01-19, 16:56

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A 4Ghz Nahalem build would walk all over both the 4Ghz C2Q and the Phenom X6 builds. If you were going to invest in the time to build one, I would probably try and build something using one of those Westmere Xeons instead though, you can get them fairly cheap now. You'd have to do a little research …

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Re: What are builds you want to make someday?

Posted on 2017-01-18, 04:09

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LGA 1366. I've never owned a machine based on that platform. How would a 4GHz Nehalem look next to my 4GHz C2Q/DDR3 system? Would it compare favourably to my 4.07GHz Phenom X6? How much slower than my 4.5GHz 4930K? I remember reading reviews that said Penryn was a little faster than Nehalem at …

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Re: 775/771 systems old school or not?

Posted on 2017-01-18, 01:57

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Speaking of Facebook, I was scrolling through it with an Athlon XP 2800 a few days ago. It was running Firefox 48 on WinXP with 2GB of RAM. Oh man...the auto-playing videos and progressively loaded pages just slowed that machine to a crawl. A P4 2.4 did not fare any better. The leap AMD made going …

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Re: Will a GeForce FX 5900xt have a bottleneck with a 1.6 GHz Pentium 4 or vice-versa?

Posted on 2017-01-15, 23:45

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not sure about the first, but the P4 1.6GHz Northwood was a thing and it was very popular for OC, I never heard of anyone failing to reach 2.4GHz with it. P4 1.6GHz is more Geforce 3 ti territory than Geforce FX, but it all depends on what you expect, if you are going to run older games at very …

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Re: Intel P6 Comparison with charts + additional CPUs

Posted on 2017-01-15, 23:17

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Look at how close the P3-S is to the 2083MHz Barton despite being 500MHz slower and hampered by a 150MHz FSB, and also how Yonah is destroying the K8 X2 in Doom3 while easily clocked to 3GHz before C2D even showed up. Yeah, I find that, with an overclocked bus, PIII-S paired with the Apollo Pro 266 …

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Re: Intel P6 Comparison with charts + additional CPUs

Posted on 2017-01-14, 21:01

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Thanks! Great overclock on that Covington, but still a poor thing. Yeah, the performance was worse than I thought it would be. Even at 448MHz/FSB112 it got its ass handed to it by the K6-2/500 in both 3DMark01 and 7-Zip. I'm starting to think that WinXP is responsible for Covington's poor …

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Re: AMD Athlon WinXP Upgrade Advice

Posted on 2017-01-14, 20:36

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FireFox 28 was the last version that would work with P3 and Athlon XP systems. https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/28.0/ Not quite. Firefox 48 was the last version that would work with PIII and A-XP systems. It was released back in...November, I think? So you'd still be fairly up to date. …

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