This might help some...perhaps..whatever

[schizoid77]

My roommate and I have recently bought some new products and have been benchmarking them just using 3dmark03, just to see how we perform against each other.

Roommate
Emachines Athlon 2800+
512mb PC2700
PNY Verto 5700 Ultra

Me
HP Pentium 4 2.26ghz
1000mb PC2100
BFG 5700 Ultra

His score 3659

My Score 3649

I have no point...I wanted to see if anyone else did...based on the scores...or not...

I have overclocked to a score of 3987.

He has overclocked to a score of 4003.

Fun Stuff.

 

[schizoid77]

Oh yeah...we're both using the ForceWare 53.03 drivers ;-)

 

[AgentX]

Yea those FX5700U's are very nice little cards, Im surprised your scores are so similar, since he has a faster cpu and ram, have you used 3dmark01SE yet? Also you might want to see if you see what happens to your scores using an older version of drivers, a lot of people are saying theyre faster than forceware.

 

[PreservedSwine]

It's not surprising you scores are within 1% of eachother.

3DM03 is a GPU bench, NOT a system bench. Since you both have the same GPU w/ the same drivers, your scores are virtually identical.

Try running 3DM01, that will give a more of a difference:grinthumb

 

[Josiiah]

Well, if your interested. My barton 2500@3200, 512MB PC3200, 9700PRO rig put out about aproximatly 16000 on 3dmark 2001 and 5000 in 3dmark 2003. The tests were done a while ago so I forget the exact numbrers. but both were so close to being even that I aproximated. detailed specs are in my profile. I tweaked my system for proformance/quality but nothing too over the top.