3dmark2003 suck bad for me, theres no consitency, scores are very random,links inside

[Kunaak]

CPU speed Doesnt matter, videocard speed doesn't matter.
Ram speed doesn't matter. Opertating system doesn't matter...

honestly I can even guess what this thing is actually scoring you on.

heres why.

my first test, everything at default.

XP 2100, 1.73 ghz, R9700 (non pro) fresh clean install of windows 2000 pro.

4488

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=34020

as you can see, this is everything at default, using a rather basic set up, I get almost 4500 with no overclocking of any kind.
seems fine right, so I am thinking "cool maybe I can get about 6000"

wrong...

next test 2.59 ghz, alittle OC on the videocard.

4268

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=37253

ok, so I think it's a fluke, a bug...
and try alittle more speed.

2.63 ghz.

no OC on the videocard.

4268

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=36905

so I am like ok, what the hells going on...
and I give it one big try.

so I go to 2.73 ghz, with almost a 400 MHZ frontside bus, and overclock the videocard to R9700 Pro levels, and give it another try.

and I get 4300.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=37805

so 4 tests later.
I have a 1.7 ghz test, with not overclocking whatso ever, beating my max 2.73 ghz, 330/310 overclock of the R9700 to 9700 pro levels, and max cas latency....

that a 1 ghz difference, and it made absolutly no difference at all.

I have ran about 10 other tests and determind the more you try the less it does, it doesn't matter about the speed of your

videocard, Ram, CPU, or if you got a clean install on the system, a fast hard drive, raid zero, set the priority levels to realtime or anything else...

3dmark 2003 seems to benchmark your computer on something I have no idea of what is...
the number so far just seem random.
like it's not really doing anything....

so, all I can say, it's nice to see, the tests are ugly as hell, and I personally hate the look of the whole thing...
the random numbers seems to have been what really ruined it for me, so I don't think I will be bothering with this program anymore, not until they release a updated version.

back to 2001 SE for me, cause the unreliability of 2003 makes it not even worth bothering with.

[OC-Master]

Something is definately wrong with your computer. My computer recieved a nice 7% boost in points going from 1440MHz to 1500MHz and a massive 25% boost going from 1000MHz to 1400MHz.

My videocard raised the points by about 20points when overclocked from 250MHz to 260MHz.

I think there is something else more wrong than just 3dmark03 with your PC. Are you sure its even overclocking LOL I wouldnt be surprised if all your getting with that overclock is a different fake number in the bios which leads everything to believe an successful overclock.

That plus the fact 3Dmark is leaning towards Athlons lately due to the more work per clock cycle issue.


OC-Master

[Overclocker550]

maybe your OCed comp is giving errors? I had a tnt back in the dark ages and when I OCed it the score in quake3 went down! Could be instability in some way but not enough to crash

[Genocide]

heh im having the same problems, I scored 1818 points on an XP 2200+ and a GF4 Ti4600 both at stock speeds, then when i overclocked my GF4 to 330/700 my FPS dropped horribly in the second and third game, it even froze up for seconds at a time skipping frames. Giving me 1259 points in the end, wtf? without rebooting windows or doing anything i reset my GF4 to default speeds and got a score of 1786 ...