Pentium Dual Core E2160 1.8@3.6 GHz, GTX 285 driver 186.18. XP.

Pentium III-S 1.4 GHz
Abit BX133-RAID
768MB PC133 2-2-2
Windows XP SP3
Forceware 56.73 (Windows-provided driver)

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Pentium III-S 1.4 GHz Abit BX133-RAID 768MB PC133 2-2-2 Windows XP SP3 Forceware 56.73 (Windows-provided driver) […]
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Pentium III-S 1.4 GHz
Abit BX133-RAID
768MB PC133 2-2-2
Windows XP SP3
Forceware 56.73 (Windows-provided driver)

That score is actually quite low. Have a look at upgrading your graphics card to a Geforce 4 TI4600. Should get your score up to around 6500-7000 using DirectX 8.1 and the nvidia 45.23 drivers. Should only set you back $25-$30 US.

borgie83 wrote:

That score is actually quite low. Have a look at upgrading your graphics card to a Geforce 4 TI4600. Should get your score up to around 6500-7000 using DirectX 8.1 and the nvidia 45.23 drivers. Should only set you back $25-$30 US.

Re: My 3DMark01 Mega Thread 😀

That's more like it. Great score! 😀

An older Toshiba laptop:
Mobile P4 532 (3.06GHz w/ hyper-threading, 1MB L2, 533MHz FSB, 88w TDP)
1GB PC2700/DDR333
Radeon 9000 IGP

HP Elitebook 8570w

i7 3610QM
NVidia Quadro K1000M

38060

Managed to get an HP XW4400 workstation , and modified it for DX8/9 gaming by replacing the existing GPU (seems like a 128Mb X600) with an X1900XT 512Mb, as well as add in an SB X-fi. The machine will be replacing my existing A64 X2 4400, and the comparison between them is interesting.

first off , the A64 based machine.

ASUS A8N-SLI SE
A64 X2 4400
Corsair Platimum 2GB DDR PC3200
Radeon X1900XT 512MB (using the 10.2 drivers)
SB X-fi Xtrememusic
WinXP Pro 32bit with SP3

next the XW4400

HP board of some kind (socket 775 , i975x chipset, I assume based on an Intel board)
Core2Duo E6600
2GB DDR2 PC5300 ECC RAM (might upgrade it to 4GB non ECC , but it may well be unnecessary)
Radeon X1900XT 512Mb (10.2 drivers)
SB X-fi Xtrememusic
WinXP Pro 32bit with SP3

not too shabby, the Intel board also seems to fix some issues with problematic games like MGS2 , which had graphical glitches on the AMD platform , but look and run fine on the Intel.

Here is a overclocked P4 631 with a Geforce 7900GTX

With the 7900GTX running at stock speed.

With the 7900 GTX overclocked the score improves very little, 3dmark2001 is still bottlenecked by the CPU even when it runs at 5000 MHz.

Skyscraper wrote:

With the 7900 GTX overclocked the score improves very little, 3dmark2001 is still bottlenecked by the CPU even when it runs at 5000 MHz.
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Most probably because 2001se isn't optimized for more than 1 CPU core, and thusly won't take advantage of hyper-threading on P4 chips. That and the P4's were the slowest option available at the time. I had a P4 Prescott chip in one machine @ 3.85 Ghz with a 9800 GT, and my 2.61 ghz AMD K8 939 chip (with the same 9800 GT) was roughly +40% faster.

The p4 platform was really, really, abysmally poor performing, and high clock speeds didn't help it at all.

Core i5-2500K (3.3GHz), GTX-680, 16GB DDR3-1600, Windows 8.1

Yet another Netburst CPU with the Geforce 7900GTX, this time the Pentium D 965 EE.

This CPU could probably produce a much higher score but with air cooling the CPU suffers from thermal throttling if I use more than 1.4V. With a normal Pentium D I got the option to disable thermal throttling in the BIOS setup but not with the 965 EE for some reason. I will test it with water cooling another day.

Pentium D 965 EE @ 4.6 with a Geforce 7900GTX at stock speed. (HT enabled)

Pentium D 965 EE @ 4.6 with an overclocked Geforce 7900GTX bottlenecked by the CPU. (HT enabled)

My "Super ISA System" I call it.. fastest machine I've been able to build with native ISA slot for older sound cards.

Athlon-XP Mobile Barton core with a small overclock @ 1.8 ghz, geforce2 ultra with small overclocks both core and memory, and 512MB PC-150 @ CL3.

Big version here for reading the text: http://www.outfoxed.net/gf2ultra/AthlonXP-Bar … dMark2001se.jpg

What could be better than a screenshot showing a 3dmark score?

A video of a system running 3dmark 2001 😀
A reboot and a quick look at the BIOS settings is also shown in the video.
"Youtube enhanced" 1080P

Q6600 @ 3600 MHz. Gforce 8800GTX. 3dmark 2001.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSbuzDHx8_0

Pentium 3 EB 800MHz, Asus CUSL2-C, 256mb PC133 ram, Voodoo 3 3000 16mb AGP (1.08.03 x3dfx Win9x beta drivers), DirectX 8.1b, Windows 98SE

Skyscraper wrote:

Yet another Netburst CPU with the Geforce 7900GTX, this time the Pentium D 965 EE. […]
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Yet another Netburst CPU with the Geforce 7900GTX, this time the Pentium D 965 EE.

This CPU could probably produce a much higher score but with air cooling the CPU suffers from thermal throttling if I use more than 1.4V. With a normal Pentium D I got the option to disable thermal throttling in the BIOS setup but not with the 965 EE for some reason. I will test it with water cooling another day.

Pentium D 965 EE @ 4.6 with a Geforce 7900GTX at stock speed. (HT enabled)

Pentium D 965 EE @ 4.6 with an overclocked Geforce 7900GTX bottlenecked by the CPU. (HT enabled)

this is still very impressive. my e5200@3.33ghz and 6800ultra scored only around 33100pts.

Skyscraper wrote:

Yet another Netburst CPU with the Geforce 7900GTX, this time the Pentium D 965 EE.

This CPU could probably produce a much higher score but with air cooling the CPU suffers from thermal throttling if I use more than 1.4V. With a normal Pentium D I got the option to disable thermal throttling in the BIOS setup but not with the 965 EE for some reason. I will test it with water cooling another day.

Then just disable thermal throttling in bios, monitor temps yourself and push it? That's how most of us overclock intel chips really far.

noshutdown wrote:

this is still very impressive. my e5200@3.33ghz and 6800ultra scored only around 33100pts.

I'm still doing a lot of testing myself with different cards and different platforms, but I think 3dmark 2001se runs faster on certain older GPU's and possibly certain cpu's, but I'm not sure what the right combination is just yet.

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Skyscraper wrote:

Yet another Netburst CPU with the Geforce 7900GTX, this time the Pentium D 965 EE. […]
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Yet another Netburst CPU with the Geforce 7900GTX, this time the Pentium D 965 EE.

This CPU could probably produce a much higher score but with air cooling the CPU suffers from thermal throttling if I use more than 1.4V. With a normal Pentium D I got the option to disable thermal throttling in the BIOS setup but not with the 965 EE for some reason. I will test it with water cooling another day.

Pentium D 965 EE @ 4.6 with a Geforce 7900GTX at stock speed. (HT enabled)

Pentium D 965 EE @ 4.6 with an overclocked Geforce 7900GTX bottlenecked by the CPU. (HT enabled)

this is still very impressive. my e5200@3.33ghz and 6800ultra scored only around 33100pts.

As CPU dependent as 3D'01 is, I think you might actually be hitting a video bottleneck there. Radeon 9800 Pro tops out at around 22000 with a very fast CPU pushing it, so 33k sounds about right for a 6800 Ultra.

My S939 Opteron185 @ 3.13 scored 47800 with a pair of 8800GTSs in SLI; I'd bet a Penryn Pentium @ 3.33 would hit ~55k with a better GPU.

kithylin wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

Yet another Netburst CPU with the Geforce 7900GTX, this time the Pentium D 965 EE.

This CPU could probably produce a much higher score but with air cooling the CPU suffers from thermal throttling if I use more than 1.4V. With a normal Pentium D I got the option to disable thermal throttling in the BIOS setup but not with the 965 EE for some reason. I will test it with water cooling another day.

Then just disable thermal throttling in bios, monitor temps yourself and push it? That's how most of us overclock intel chips really far.

Well I would if I could.
I can not make the BIOS setup show the "disable thermal throttling" option by shere willpower.

3DMark 2001 loves huge and fast L2/L3 cache. Core2-based Pentium isn't a very good CPU for breaking 3DMark records. 😀
R9800 Pro can do 30k+ and 6800 Ultra PCI-E is able to hit 60k easily... of course with very fast CPU and some LOD tweaks as well.
http://hwbot.org/submission/2456100_havli_3dm … xxl_30620_marks
http://hwbot.org/submission/2296093_havli_3dm … _mb_58409_marks

Anyway - here is a score of my lastest build:

Core2 Duo E6400 @ 2,25 GHz
Radeon 8500
1GB DDR 373 MHz
ASRock 775i65G R3.0 (i865G)

11428 points (no tweaks)