Playing with 3DMark01

[TheGreatSatan]

I work in Computer Retail and was really bored at work, so I installed 3DMark01 on a few systems and got some scores. I then went home and ran the test on my PC, here's what I found...:think:

Compaq SR5210NX
Celeron 420, 1GB RAM, Intel 950 Graphics
Score = 3471

HP A8200N
AMD Athlon 6000+, 3GB RAM, GeForce 6150
Score = 4614???:think:

HP Elite M9040N
Intel Quad Q6600, 3GB RAM, GeForce 8400GS
Score = 15,048

My System:
AMD Athlon 6000+, 2GB RAM, 8800GTS 640MB
Score = 37, 694 :banana:

Is all that difference because of the 8800GTS? I thought that the CPU was measured in that mix too. That like....Wow!

[NightrainSrt4]

As far as I know 2001 wasn't multithreaded, so its not taking full advantage of the q6600 like 2006 would. But the program is heavily gpu based so it would make sense yours was higher. The program isn't taking full advantage of your cpu or the q6600.

[crenn]

2001 and 2003 aren't multithreaded. And a good graphics card can be good for those ones.

My computer:
3DMark2001 - 36133 3DMarks. I'll put the GPU to it's OC settings and try again.

[Spawn-Inc]

stock(576/750) i got 27335 and 27823 with the core@1.4v 700/868.

[crenn]

With my GPU at 615/915

40442

[Spawn-Inc]

so i guess even in single core the q6600 still beats a celeron :(

[crenn]

Ummm..... I didn't 'limit' the amount of cores that 3DMark2001SE could use. I'll limit it strictly to 1 core now and see how I go. I'll also bump up the GPU speed to 625/915.

I'll edit this post when done.

Score: 40251 using 1 core and GPU at 625/915

[Spawn-Inc]

i thought you said 01, and 03 don't support multicore chips, or are threads different from cores?

[crenn]

They run, but don't support running more than one thread like 3DMark05 and 3DMark06.

EDIT: I'll try to explain a little better. When each program runs, it makes a thread, if it the program can run multiple threads, each thread is assigned to a core of the CPU. Maybe one for AI, one for physics, and another for other calculations. A single core processor has to process all of the threads on the one core when a multicore system such as my quad core can off load threads onto other cores. During startup, my CPU doesn't utilise even 15% of the total power because of this (25% represents 1 core being fully loaded).