First post, by NightSprinter
I just want to know if the FX5700 Ultra is supposed to do poorly in 3DMark99-2001? In each one, I seem to be getting well under 6000 for my score. This is on top of the surprisingly-low performance I'm already getting in quite a few games I have (yes, even using the OGL renderer for Unreal Gold and UT). If anyone can help me figure out what the issue is outside of going to an AthlonXP board (which I'd most likely lose good DOS compatibility even with a Vortex2), I'd appreciate it.
Specs are:
CPU - Intel Coppermine Pentium III-800 Slot-1
Motherboard - Intel Seattle-II 440BX
Memory - 512MB PC133
HDD1 - 30GB Maxtor IDE
HDD2 - 160GB Maxtor IDE
Optical - IDE DVD+/-RW
Graphics 1 - Gainward GeForce FX5700 Ultra 128MB
Graphics 2 - 8MB Creative 3D Blaster II Voodoo2
Sound 1 - Diamond MonsterSound MX300 (all but primary audio and MIDI disabled)
Sound 2 - On-Board Yamaha YMF-740 (though might disable it in favor of an ISA card, due to DSDMA being needed for some games)
Networking - Linksys LNE100-TX
Belkin USB2 PCI card