My 3DMark05 Scores With New X850XT PE, Sound About Right?

[Adonlude]

System:
3.0 GHz P4, Hyperthreading, 800MHz FSB (3DMark Shows 200Mhz FSB, why???)
2.0 Gb PC3200 2-3-2-6-1 Kingston HyperX Ram
P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard
ATI made X850XT Platinum Edition

First, My score with my old ATI 9800pro:

CPU: 5% OC to 3.15Ghz
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated except 2 of Norton's services that dont go away unless you disable the service and reboot. (Norton System Works 2005 has like 8 processes, 2 of which won't terminate)
Score: 2724
BF2 Settings: I played with no AA or AF, Lighting and shadows on medium, rest on high, 1024x768. Gameplay was smooth 95% of the time. I would get unnacceptable FPS on the Iron Gator and on some 64 player games.

Testing with the new X850XT PE:

CPU: No OC
Graphics Card: 540/587 (No Over Clock)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated except 2 of Norton's services that dont go away unless you disable the service and reboot.
Score: 4801

CPU: No OC
Graphics Card: 540/587 (No Over Clock)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 5745 (HOLY CRAP NEVER PLAY BF2 WITH NORTON IN THE BACKGROUND)

CPU: 10% OC to 3.3GHz
Graphics Card: 540/587 (No Over Clock)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 5996 (wow getting rid of those 2 norton processes got me 4x more than a 10%OC)

CPU: 5% OC to 3.15GHz
Graphics Card: 580/600 (Both OC bars up about 50% in Catalyst Control Center)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 6045 (This is the OC setting I currently play BF2 at)
BF2 Settings: I played with 4x AA and medium AF, Lighting and shadows on medium, rest on high, 1280x1024. FPS is in the 30-50 range, seems low!!! Drops to around 20FPS inside the Iron Gator aircraft storage area!

CPU: 10% OC to 3.3GHz
Graphics Card: 580/600 (Both OC bars up about 50% in Catalyst Control Center)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 6165 (need to replace thermal grease on heatsink before pushing the OC higher)


Comments:
Well I spent just over $400 on this new graphics card and it has more than doubled my 3DMark05 Score, unfortuantely I dont think it has doubled the BF2 video quality. I was playing with all settings high and on 1600x1200 at first but I was getting choppyness whenever I moved the mouse quickly. I got the same things at lower settings as well until I did something to fix it, I dont really know what fixed it. I noticed that the box that says shaders are optimizing was not appearing after my changes to the video settings. Shaders were optimized eventually and I am guessing that is what made the choppyness go away but im not certain. Never the less, my FPS still varies around 30-50 depending on how graphics intesive the area is, 20FPS in the Iron Gator hull. This sounds low to me. I expected to be able to run pretty high settings and never get less than 50FPS.:hmm:

Why does 3DMark05 show that I have 200MHz FSB when I should have 800MHz? The people with higher 3DMark05 scores online show an 800MHz FSB.

Please comment or make comparisons.

[Razorman01]

Re: My 3DMark05 Scores With New X850XT PE, Sound About Right?

4 x hyperthreading takes you to 800mhz but its not real, dont worry about your scores, you are cpu bottleneck'd, score is about right alltho a ilttle on the low side

[JCFast]

Re: My 3DMark05 Scores With New X850XT PE, Sound About Right?

A bit low. I get around 6000 with non OC'ed system of mine. As you can see from the sig that I have a step lower card than you.

[Adonlude]

Re: My 3DMark05 Scores With New X850XT PE, Sound About Right?

4 x hyperthreading takes you to 800mhz but its not real, dont worry about your scores, you are cpu bottleneck'd, score is about right alltho a ilttle on the low side

So what kind of CPU do the people have who show 800MHz FSB in 3DMark05? Do you think upgrading my CPU to a 3.4GHz unit with the higher L1 and L2 cache that todays models have would help?

A bit low. I get around 6000 with non OC'ed system of mine. As you can see from the sig that I have a step lower card than you.

You have a faster CPU than I do. A 3500 is supposed to be equivalent to a 3.5GHz P4.

[AZwldcats]

Re: My 3DMark05 Scores With New X850XT PE, Sound About Right?

Wow I have a A64 3200+ 1Gig Hyper X and an X800XT (AIW) that I paid $220 for and my score was a 5843. I would think a X850XT would outperform a X800XT AIW better than that

[redearedslider]

Re: My 3DMark05 Scores With New X850XT PE, Sound About Right?

my normal score without overclocking was 6564 now my avarage is between 6767 and 6790

[Herox]

Re: My 3DMark05 Scores With New X850XT PE, Sound About Right?

System:
3.0 GHz P4, Hyperthreading, 800MHz FSB (3DMark Shows 200Mhz FSB, why???)
2.0 Gb PC3200 2-3-2-6-1 Kingston HyperX Ram
P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard
ATI made X850XT Platinum Edition

First, My score with my old ATI 9800pro:

CPU: 5% OC to 3.15Ghz
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated except 2 of Norton's services that dont go away unless you disable the service and reboot. (Norton System Works 2005 has like 8 processes, 2 of which won't terminate)
Score: 2724
BF2 Settings: I played with no AA or AF, Lighting and shadows on medium, rest on high, 1024x768. Gameplay was smooth 95% of the time. I would get unnacceptable FPS on the Iron Gator and on some 64 player games.

Testing with the new X850XT PE:

CPU: No OC
Graphics Card: 540/587 (No Over Clock)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated except 2 of Norton's services that dont go away unless you disable the service and reboot.
Score: 4801

CPU: No OC
Graphics Card: 540/587 (No Over Clock)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 5745 (HOLY CRAP NEVER PLAY BF2 WITH NORTON IN THE BACKGROUND)

CPU: 10% OC to 3.3GHz
Graphics Card: 540/587 (No Over Clock)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 5996 (wow getting rid of those 2 norton processes got me 4x more than a 10%OC)

CPU: 5% OC to 3.15GHz
Graphics Card: 580/600 (Both OC bars up about 50% in Catalyst Control Center)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 6045 (This is the OC setting I currently play BF2 at)
BF2 Settings: I played with 4x AA and medium AF, Lighting and shadows on medium, rest on high, 1280x1024. FPS is in the 30-50 range, seems low!!! Drops to around 20FPS inside the Iron Gator aircraft storage area!

CPU: 10% OC to 3.3GHz
Graphics Card: 580/600 (Both OC bars up about 50% in Catalyst Control Center)
Processes: All unnecessary processes terminated Including disabling the two pesky norton services that couldn't be terminated.
Score: 6165 (need to replace thermal grease on heatsink before pushing the OC higher)


Comments:
Well I spent just over $400 on this new graphics card and it has more than doubled my 3DMark05 Score, unfortuantely I dont think it has doubled the BF2 video quality. I was playing with all settings high and on 1600x1200 at first but I was getting choppyness whenever I moved the mouse quickly. I got the same things at lower settings as well until I did something to fix it, I dont really know what fixed it. I noticed that the box that says shaders are optimizing was not appearing after my changes to the video settings. Shaders were optimized eventually and I am guessing that is what made the choppyness go away but im not certain. Never the less, my FPS still varies around 30-50 depending on how graphics intesive the area is, 20FPS in the Iron Gator hull. This sounds low to me. I expected to be able to run pretty high settings and never get less than 50FPS.:hmm:

Why does 3DMark05 show that I have 200MHz FSB when I should have 800MHz? The people with higher 3DMark05 scores online show an 800MHz FSB.

Please comment or make comparisons.

Wow, what a rip off. $400...your card should be getting more than 6k.

I bought my eVGA GeForce 7800 GT for about $310. Also bought a new system.

I've barely OCed my new system, actually just replaced my 4 sticks of 512 corsair xms ram with 2 sticks of 1024 corsair xms ram running @ 400 mhz in dual channel.

This upped my score from 7401 to 8203.

WOW is all I can say, those 4 sticks really did a number on my system.

All I can say is fool around with your settings (I don't know which since the only Radeon card I ever owned was the 7500 lol) etc, etc.

-Herox

[redearedslider]

Re: My 3DMark05 Scores With New X850XT PE, Sound About Right?

it costed you 400 !??!? that's a lot man...i hope you have a lot of fun with it :)

[BOBSONATOR025]

Re: My 3DMark05 Scores With New X850XT PE, Sound About Right?

400!!! you got raped son!!!

go give it back!!! you can get a GTX!

[aeroshot]

Re: My 3DMark05 Scores With New X850XT PE, Sound About Right?

Why does 3DMark05 show that I have 200MHz FSB when I should have 800MHz? The people with higher 3DMark05 scores online show an 800MHz FSB.

The processor is quad-pumped each 200MHZ, 200MHZ * 4.

[joshuajames]

Re: My 3DMark05 Scores With New X850XT PE, Sound About Right?

don't feel bad, i have a 7800gtx (see specs for rest) and i'm only getting like 7700 when others with the same card get 8100+. makes no sense to me, could anyone suggest some drivers or anything. thanks

[Adonlude]

Re: My 3DMark05 Scores With New X850XT PE, Sound About Right?

400!!! you got raped son!!!

go give it back!!! you can get a GTX!

Are you guys not up to date on current computer tech? X850XT PE is the fastest AGP card there is, that is why the price is still high. Yes I could spend less on a PCIe card like the 7800 and get better performance but my computer doesn't have PCIe. Upgrading my Mboard, CPU, and my graphics card for a 7800 would cost much more than $400 and would take much much more time.

The difference between this X850XT PE and my 9800pro is that now I can turn on 4xAA and medium anisotropic filtering but I still have to put lighting, dynamic lighting, and dynamic shadows on medium. Putting them on high makes the game choppy and unplayable. What the hell?