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Mad
Onion's 3D Mark 2000
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6053
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In my review of the Absolute
Multimedia GeForce2 GTS it became apparent that the CPU was actually the
limiting factor in obtaining a high 3D Mark score. What stands out even more
from this benchmark is that the Azza KT133BX/Duron 800 combo scored 6292.
Interesting how one year old parts can still score pretty well. While 3D Mark
is a good benchmark for comparing your system performance to another's, it
simply doesn't show all the performance capable from a configuration like
a game benchmark can. You can download 3D Mark 2000
here.
Quake
3 Arena
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640
x 480
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800
x 600
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1280
x 1024
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Fastest
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85.1
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84.1
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81.0
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Normal
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72.6
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71.6
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69.7
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High
Quality
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70.6
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70.2
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57.4
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I had hoped that these scores could
have been higher. I think the major sticking point during this benchmark was
that I couldn't adjust the memory timing in BIOS past "normal" at
133 MHz FSB. The BIOS only offers two settings - "normal" and "turbo".
The AOpen KT133 board I played with had "faster" and "fastest"
available for selection on top of these two settings. Since my memory wouldn't
work at the "turbo" setting with this board I was stuck with just
"normal" timing at 133 MHz- whereas the KT133 board ran just fine
in "fastest" mode and 133 MHz. I wonder if those two additional
memory options can be included with a BIOS update?
