3D Mark 5731 on a 9800XT???

[Ravens Nest]

Ok something is definitely screwy here, I formatted, NTFS system, Win XP Pro, installed XP Pro, installed the 3.10 cats, installed DX9.0b and SP1 for XP, ran 3d Mark 03 again and only jumped to 6138.......grrr this is bugging me now....although something I did just notice was in 3D Mark 03 it now has a AGP memory size of 246MB whereas before it was showing 0

You could try the DNA 3.10 drivers for your 9800, nice increase in speed on my 9700np (And if im not mistaken image quality increase too)
http://www.dna-drivers.nl/viewtopic.php?t=398

You should also try this Service pack patch, when microsoft released service pack 1 they messed up there IDE drivers, perhaps this might increase speed a little (Made quite an impact on my machine).
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ahrk_2k...P2_x86_ENU.exe

Did you try your agp set to 64?

Other things you could try is ask if anyone has the exact same configuration to you hardware wise, and if they have a higher score then ask them exactly what drivers they use and in what order they are installed, also what BIOS upgrade they have for the motherboard might give you that extra performance you need.

Also exactly what BIOS settings they have on the motherboard as well, every little helps

[dgr]

It's that time again for me to post ol' faithful

(20k+ 3dm2k1

acidrainy, how does that add up? i have a barton which at 11.5*210 doesn't do anything like 20000 - granted ive only a 9700pro, but it doesn't add up...

do you actulally do ANYTHING with your pc other than 3d mark?

[schrickvr6]

20k sounds spot on,i get almost 21k on my athlon rig and 9800pro but thats at 225mhz fsb and 2.5ghz,most i could get with my 9700 pro was about 18500

[Stoo]

Hmmm don't mind me, missed the multipage thing..

[daniel_owen_uk]

Ok did a little cleaning and making sure all the settings were right, ran 3d Mark again and this time got 12,928, more realistic?

m@

Not really I have done over 14000 with a 9500pro and 1700xp (albeit @ 2.2ghz).

I would suggest a reinstall whenever switching from nvidia to ati (or vice-versa).

[Stoo]

yup, I had to reinstall when I went from a geforce 4mx to rad9500, incidently after installing the DNA drivers and o/cing from 2500 to 2800 speeds, my score went from 13.6k-ish to just over 15k

[iamwhoiam]

I notice on yours you don;t run the CPU tests, these are where I am getting hammered, for example, CPU Test 2 I get 8FPS. I dunno whats going on but this card sure ain;t working right, fresh install, 3dMark 03 14273...grrr..... Might ask my mate if I can try it in his HT 3.0 and see if that makes a difference, hes got Dual channel ram as well, if that makes a suitable difference I am just gonna upgrade the rest.....

m@

Its only the CPU test... It only tests the CPU.
3dMark works out the score only using the first 4 tests which tests the graphics card...