Upgraded to Newer Rig - Lower Score? What Gives?

[sammy5gs]

Hey All... I am a little confused and was hoping someone could shed some light for me. I recently upgraded my rig from this:

CPU: P4 2.4 (b) 533 Mhz FSB, no H/T
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-8SQ800 (533 FSB)
Video: ATI Radeon 9700Pro
Memory: 1GB Crucial (DDR333) running in Dual Channel

to this:

CPU: P4 2.4 (c) 800 Mhz FSB W/ HT
Mobo: Abit IS7-E (800 FSB) w/ HT
Video: ATI Radeon 9700Pro
Memory: 1GB Crucial (DDR400) running in Dual Channel

All other components were the same (HDD, CDRW, etc). And my 3dMark03 scores were slightly lower in the new rig (4773 vs. 4701), with the CPU score much lower (524 vs. 422). Now, this bench was done w/o overclocking any components in either rig. And I know that 3dMark03 is mostly GPU intensive, but what gives? That does not seem right, for an upgraded mobo/cpu for a) the overall score to go down, and b) the CPU score to go down.

Any insight/thoughts/suggestions.

[markodude]

Just benched this
2.2m @ 2.4 800FSB,NO HT, Asus P4B-533E i845E, Single Channel DDR400 512Mb Cas2.5 7-3-3-3, AGP 4x, FX5600@800/400
vs
2.4C @ 3.25 1000FSB, HT, Asus P4P-800 i865, Dual Channel DDR400 512MB Cas2 5-2-2-2, AGP 8x, FX5600@800/400

Both scored exactly 3400 first run. A reinstall of the 45.23 driver and increasing AGP Aperture got me up to 3517 on the P4P-800

Seems the new P4 systems have little effect on 3dmark scores, ocing the Video Card has more effect than upgrading the rest of your system apparently!

[sammy5gs]

Originally posted by markodude
Just benched this
2.2m @ 2.4 800FSB,NO HT, Asus P4B-533E i845E, Single Channel DDR400 512Mb Cas2.5 7-3-3-3, AGP 4x, FX5600@800/400
vs
2.4C @ 3.25 1000FSB, HT, Asus P4P-800 i865, Dual Channel DDR400 512MB Cas2 5-2-2-2, AGP 8x, FX5600@800/400

Both scored exactly 3400 first run. A reinstall of the 45.23 driver and increasing AGP Aperture got me up to 3517 on the P4P-800

Seems the new P4 systems have little effect on 3dmark scores, ocing the Video Card has more effect than upgrading the rest of your system apparently!

That's what I thought. Way to provide some benches, marko.... One other thing that I think may be causing some problems for me is that the OS I was using (Win2KPro) does not support HT anyway (ooops), so now I am looking to get my WinXPPro up and running so that I can truly see it for myself. As you have already benched, I do not think the difference in FSB & HT would matter much in anything other than multitasking.

Sam