Low 3DMARK2001SE scores due to my CPU?

[Orange Fire.]

I've seen people achieve up in the 10,000s in 3DMARK2001SE. I can barely achieve 5,800 with overclocked settings and tight ram timings. Is my CPU motherboard or RAM causing the low scores?

[#18]

It's about right for the system you have. It's not just your CPU, but your video card as well. Pentiume III 1GHZ + Geforce 3 are both outdated, SDRAM too.

Upgrade any 1 of these 2 parts to top of the line will give you around 10k score in 3dmark2k1SE. For example, a P4 overclocked to over 3GHZ work with your Geforce 3, or get a Radeon 9700PRO or higher work with your Pentiume III 1GHZ, both will give you around 10k score. If you can upgrade both, then I am sure you'll be able to get at least 15k.

Take a look my set up and scores.

The easiest way for you is just to upgrade the video card. Otherwise you'll have to go all out upgrade, since CPU & motherboard & RAM are all related in the situation your system is one generation behind.

[james.miller]

No links in sigs, #18
http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=58341

[Edward2]

#18 - It is a pain in the you know what, but you can submit your scores to the OC3DMark Team website and then link to the team website in your sig.

[#18]

oh I get it. :)

changing

I don't trust everyone's score and hardware set up in their sig. :D You know there are immature people try to be cool by making things up. Need links to back them up. That's why I added mine. Don't blame me for it, I didn't know that rule. ;)
Do you know why the rule doesn't allow these links? I only see good side of adding links such as 3dmark and PCmark scores directly.