r9800 np 3dmark score?

[PottaCoola]

i just got this card and the clock was normal 325/290 with infineon 3.0 not so good,i got 4600 3dmarks on 03 then my 2400+ blow up so im stuck with my 1.3gig duron 100 fsb till my new 2500+ 333fsb comes next week. with my duron i did 3dmark 03 and got 4800 when i clocked my gcard to 380/326 stable (trying to get to pro clock speeds)any gues what i will get with my new 2500+ and 120 gig hard drive 7200 rpm 8mb chache?






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1.3ghz duron 100fsb
sapphire radeon 9800np at 380/326
2x 256 333 , 2700 2.5 cl kingston and cheapo ram
l7vta k400 mobo
8 gig normal speed hard drive and 5 gig normal speed hard drive

 

[PreservedSwine]

Not much difference.

3DM03 is mainly a GPU bench. CPU, RAM, and FSB width have little to do w/ overall performance of this particular bench....as it pretty much just tests the GPU

 

[PottaCoola]

hmm?

but when i put my 1.3 duron in from my ahtlon xp 2400+ i lost 300 marks

 

[PreservedSwine]

Re: hmm?

but when i put my 1.3 duron in from my ahtlon xp 2400+ i lost 300 marks

I guess I don't consider 300 points very much when your talking about doubling your cpu speed in a benchmark who's score is upwards of 4,500 points

In any case, yes, you will see a marginal increase in 3Dm03... nothing like you'd see in 3DM01, but a small increase nonetheless

To put it in perspective, you would acheive a higher score in the DURON rig if you just overclocked the graphics card, in comparison to the XP2400 and R9800 running stock.

If a higher 3Dm03 score is your goal, overlcoking the GPU will give you *much* better results than an CPU upgrade