Surprising Results!

[Triadcool]

I upgraded my gerforce 4 mx 420 64 mb to a nvidia geforce fx 5200 256mb and here are my results:


3d Mark 2001 : old card MX420 - Score:1,182 , new card FX5200 - Score:2,218

System Works 2004 Performance Test: old card MX420 - Score:131.1/306.0 , new card FX5200 - Score:165.5/327.1


As you can see there was a pretty big performance increase. This is for those who didnt think the FX5200 would give you a big noticable performance inhansment over the MX420.

That is a pretty big performance increase in 3d mark isn't it?

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by Triadcool@11 December 2003 - 23:48
I upgraded my gerforce 4 mx 420 64 mb to a nvidia geforce fx 5200 256mb and here are my results:


3d Mark 2001 : old card MX420 - Score:1,182 , new card FX5200 - Score:2,218

System Works 2004 Performance Test: old card MX420 - Score:131.1/306.0 , new card FX5200 - Score:165.5/327.1


As you can see there was a pretty big performance increase. This is for those who didnt think the FX5200 would give you a big noticable performance inhansment over the MX420.

That is a pretty big performance increase in 3d mark isn't it?
wow! wat cpu do u have? do u oc ur gfx? cuz my 9600 only got 2000 something. wow. my old gfx got 1400 or something like htat. but i didn't oc anything

[Triadcool]

My computer specs are: 1ghz processor, 856mb ram, 80gb hard drive, msi ms 6330 motherboard, sb live mp3 plus soundcard, FX5200 256mb video card.

Nothing in my computer is overclocked.

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by Triadcool@12 December 2003 - 00:23
My computer specs are: 1ghz processor, 856mb ram, 80gb hard drive, msi ms 6330 motherboard, sb live mp3 plus soundcard, FX5200 256mb video card.

Nothing in my computer is overclocked.
wow. u beat my score some how. but u do have more gfx ram. but i have a feeling that doesn't affect bench scores

[Triadcool]

Im not sure. All I know is it blows the geforce 4 mx 420 away. (my old video card).

[clocker]

Originally posted by abu_has_the_power@11 December 2003 - 21:59

wow! wat cpu do u have? do u oc ur gfx? cuz my 9600 only got 2000 something. wow. my old gfx got 1400 or something like htat. but i didn't oc anything
Abu, are you sure that you're talking about 3D Mark2001?

[bob_the_alien]

Originally posted by Triadcool@11 December 2003 - 22:48
As you can see there was a pretty big performance increase. This is for those who didnt think the FX5200 would give you a big noticable performance inhansment over the MX420.
I fairly knew I'd get a big performance increase if I get a better card; I have the MX440 though, but same difference when it comes to upgrading.

But since my gf4 still plays everything I need it to I've seen no reason to upgrade, YET, I'm waiting around until Unreal Tournament 2004, and Half-Life 2 comes out, that way, I can get a really good card that will run these perfectly, but until they come out, the old gf4 is still good enough.

[bigdawgfoxx]

Yeah ABU in 3DMark01 you got almost 11,000. Just to let you know! That is he 3DMark01 score.

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by clocker+12 December 2003 - 01:03--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (clocker @ 12 December 2003 - 01:03)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-abu_has_the_power@11 December 2003 - 21:59

wow&#33; wat cpu do u have? do u oc ur gfx? cuz my 9600 only got 2000 something. wow. my old gfx got 1400 or something like htat. but i didn&#39;t oc anything
Abu, are you sure that you&#39;re talking about 3D Mark2001? [/b][/quote]
oh. sory. missread. sory bout that. ok. now i feel much better. whew. ok. yea, i was talking about 3dmark03. ok. sory bout that

[raiserblade2003]

Originally posted by Triadcool@12 December 2003 - 04:48
I upgraded my gerforce 4 mx 420 64 mb to a nvidia geforce fx 5200 256mb and here are my results:


3d Mark 2001 : old card MX420 - Score:1,182 , new card FX5200 - Score:2,218

System Works 2004 Performance Test: old card MX420 - Score:131.1/306.0 , new card FX5200 - Score:165.5/327.1


As you can see there was a pretty big performance increase. This is for those who didnt think the FX5200 would give you a big noticable performance inhansment over the MX420.

That is a pretty big performance increase in 3d mark isn&#39;t it?
lol you think what you got w/ the 5200 in 3d2001 is good? my pci mx440 has a score of 4526 and it only have 64mb ram. okay guess i wont be getting a 5200 any more.

[DWk]

oh so thats why i got 117 score with my gfx card in 3d mark 03? tsk tsk...ima go try 01 :D

[Triadcool]

lol you think what you got w/ the 5200 in 3d2001 is good? my pci mx440 has a score of 4526 and it only have 64mb ram. okay guess i wont be getting a 5200 any more.

Its not all the card thats making the score. What are your computer specs? Mine are 1ghz processor, 856mb pc133 ram, fx 5200 256mb video card, msi ms-6330, 80 gb processor. As you can see my computer specs arent that high.

[DWk]

Originally posted by Triadcool@12 December 2003 - 20:19
80 gb processor
woah.....where u get a hold of one of these babies? :P :P :P

[clocker]

Originally posted by DWk+12 December 2003 - 20:20--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (DWk @ 12 December 2003 - 20:20)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Triadcool@12 December 2003 - 20:19
80 gb processor
woah.....where u get a hold of one of these babies? :P :P :P [/b][/quote]
Beta tester for Intel?

[DWk]

temp? like 1000ºC? :P :D :lol:

[raiserblade2003]

Originally posted by Triadcool@13 December 2003 - 03:19

lol you think what you got w/ the 5200 in 3d2001 is good? my pci mx440 has a score of 4526 and it only have 64mb ram. okay guess i wont be getting a 5200 any more.

Its not all the card thats making the score. What are your computer specs? Mine are 1ghz processor, 856mb pc133 ram, fx 5200 256mb video card, msi ms-6330, 80 gb processor. As you can see my computer specs arent that high.
my current oldie emachine...

1.5ghz celeron
128mb of pc2100
im pretty sure its some generic mobo
40gb (dont think this affect your score)
and the PCI mx440 64mb ddr



P.S. remeber, im running xp w/ 128mb of ram.

[clocker]

Originally posted by raiserblade2003@12 December 2003 - 21:31




P.S. remeber, im running xp w/ 128mb of ram.
You may be putting the XP GUI on the screen, but with 128MB of RAM you are hardly running it... :P

[Triadcool]

Whoops my bad I ment 80 gb hard drive. Whoopsey LOL&#33; :lol:

[raiserblade2003]

Originally posted by clocker+13 December 2003 - 05:09--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (clocker @ 13 December 2003 - 05:09)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-raiserblade2003@12 December 2003 - 21:31




P.S. remeber, im running xp w/ 128mb of ram.
You may be putting the XP GUI on the screen, but with 128MB of RAM you are hardly running it... :P [/b][/quote]
yea, you should see how it run w/ just 2 bt download running....btw, is there any version of bt that uses less ram/memory or whatever it is.

[Dray_04]

my gfx only got 940 3d marks in 03. :(

my specs are below.

however im confused because i got 4008 3d marks in 01. and ure card is 256mb and mine is 128.

so does it not matter how big the ram is on the card? say if he threw the exact card into my computer would it get a higher score than 4008 marks?


p.s is 4008 3dmarks in 3dmark01 good?

[Dray_04]

Originally posted by raiserblade2003+13 December 2003 - 04:31--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (raiserblade2003 @ 13 December 2003 - 04:31)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Triadcool@13 December 2003 - 03:19

lol you think what you got w/ the 5200 in 3d2001 is good? my pci mx440 has a score of 4526 and it only have 64mb ram. okay guess i wont be getting a 5200 any more.

Its not all the card thats making the score. What are your computer specs? Mine are 1ghz processor, 856mb pc133 ram, fx 5200 256mb video card, msi ms-6330, 80 gb processor. As you can see my computer specs arent that high.
my current oldie emachine...

1.5ghz celeron
128mb of pc2100
im pretty sure its some generic mobo
40gb (dont think this affect your score)
and the PCI mx440 64mb ddr



P.S. remeber, im running xp w/ 128mb of ram. [/b][/quote]
how did u get a higher score than me in 01. when clearly ure machine (your older machine) isnt as high as my specs.

sori im not trying to brag or nething im just wondering how you got a good score with that card and with those specs :huh:

[abu_has_the_power]

Originally posted by dray_02@13 December 2003 - 01:17
my gfx only got 940 3d marks in 03. :(

my specs are below.

however im confused because i got 4008 3d marks in 01. and ure card is 256mb and mine is 128.

so does it not matter how big the ram is on the card? say if he threw the exact card into my computer would it get a higher score than 4008 marks?


p.s is 4008 3dmarks good?
how much doesn&#39;t really matter bench and power wise. it&#39;ll only give the user more space to render graphx, but not necessarilly render at a high speed. it&#39;ll be the same as a gfx 5200 128, but u can see some improvement. so far, and not for another couple years, games won&#39;t be requiring 256mb ram on ur vd card

[Dray_04]

can sum1 tell me if my MS 6367 mobo is the main source of &#39;graphic loss&#39;. its 4x agp and all my specs are below.

4008 marks - 01
905 marks - 03

[Smith]

631 on 3ds mark 2001 :D

[raiserblade2003]

Originally posted by TheCanuk@13 December 2003 - 07:09
631 on 3ds mark 2001 :D
there are 3 possiblities y u are getting such low score,

1: you mean 3dmark03
2: you forgot to type in a number so your score is 6xxx and not 631
3: you have a video card from one of the first computer ever made

[Dray_04]

3: you have a video card from one of the first computer ever made

lmfao :lol:

[bob_the_alien]

Originally posted by raiserblade2003@13 December 2003 - 01:18
3: you have a video card from one of the first computer ever made
I don&#39;t think you would be able to get it to work in a new system.
I&#39;d say one of those would most likely be ISA.
(Well, first mass-market video cards) because the first were designed just for the computers they were in, and those computers were all designed differently.

Which I haven&#39;t seen a new mobo in a while that still supports ISA, too bad too, I&#39;ve got quite a few ISA cards lying around, modems, network cards.
And one that everyone is going to laugh about.

An ISA processor card, made to use dual processors on one motherboard, came around before dual-processor mobos were big, supports up to a Pentium (1).

I still have a ATI 3d Rage, too, 2mb ram, pci slot, and includes a upgrade slot on card for installing extra video ram. :lol: I remember playing dos games all the day with that card, still works too.
DAMN, I&#39;m getting old. :lol:

[raiserblade2003]

Originally posted by bob_the_alien+13 December 2003 - 09:10--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (bob_the_alien @ 13 December 2003 - 09:10)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-raiserblade2003@13 December 2003 - 01:18
3: you have a video card from one of the first computer ever made
I don&#39;t think you would be able to get it to work in a new system.
I&#39;d say one of those would most likely be ISA.
(Well, first mass-market video cards) because the first were designed just for the computers they were in, and those computers were all designed differently.

Which I haven&#39;t seen a new mobo in a while that still supports ISA, too bad too, I&#39;ve got quite a few ISA cards lying around, modems, network cards.
And one that everyone is going to laugh about.

An ISA processor card, made to use dual processors on one motherboard, came around before dual-processor mobos were big, supports up to a Pentium (1).

I still have a ATI 3d Rage, too, 2mb ram, pci slot, and includes a upgrade slot on card for installing extra video ram. :lol: I remember playing dos games all the day with that card, still works too.
DAMN, I&#39;m getting old. :lol: [/b][/quote]
yea......i was being sarcastic..... <_<

[bob_the_alien]

Originally posted by raiserblade2003@13 December 2003 - 13:02
yea......i was being sarcastic..... <_<
;) yeah, I know.......

[raiserblade2003]

Originally posted by bob_the_alien+19 December 2003 - 06:41--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (bob_the_alien @ 19 December 2003 - 06:41)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-raiserblade2003@13 December 2003 - 13:02
yea......i was being sarcastic..... <_<
;) yeah, I know....... [/b][/quote]
wow u went diggin for this just to post that? you must need some post count really bad or u are really bored

[bob_the_alien]

Originally posted by raiserblade2003@19 December 2003 - 01:07
wow u went diggin for this just to post that? you must need some post count really bad or u are really bored
Nah, I&#39;ve just not been around much lately, (I&#39;ve been working 50 + hours a week, plus final projects and then just finals due)

so I went back through my last posts and it was there, so I thought "hey, what the hell, I&#39;ll post"
so no diggin, but the bored part, maybe.
which is about the same as now. :P

[TNTIcemanTNT]

No point to wait till Half Life 2 comes out etc. Radeon 9600 xt can handle HL2 and Doom 3 easy, might aswell upgrade now to play games like POP and Dues Ex 2 which are good.

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by TNTIcemanTNT@21 December 2003 - 09:27
No point to wait till Half Life 2 comes out etc. Radeon 9600 xt can handle HL2 and Doom 3 easy, might aswell upgrade now to play games like POP and Dues Ex 2 which are good.
remember that&#39;ll depend very much on the rest of the system spec too...

just because you stick a good graphics card in an antiquated pc doesn&#39;t mean you&#39;ll run hl2 or doom3 well... :)