Could this be accurate?

[calmhorizons]

Ran 3DMark2001SE build 330 and scored 5435. Here is my system specs:

Soltek 75FRN2-RL Nforce2 mobo
Barton 2500@2100Mhx (200x10.5)
Chaintech FX5200@275/400
Kingston PC3200 @7-3-3-2.5
Western Digital Special Ed. 80 gig 8mb cache
420W AMD approved PS
Windows XP SP1

Now I know this isn't a top performing video card. Most reviews rate it equal to a Ati Radeon 9200. The stock clock speeds for the FX5200 are Core Clock/Memorry 250/332mhz. As you can see above I'm running at a slight oc. A score of 5435 seems way low IMO, especially when I see others posting twice that score with a similar or ever weaker system. I'm running 3DMark2001SE at all defualt settings btw. No AA running either. Also I should mention I'm running DirectX 8.1. Another thing I should mention is that when I Sandra Performance Tune-UP Wizards it's tellings me AGP bus is not being used or AGP card is not is not fully AGP compatible. It also tells me my current AGP data rate is not optimal. What??? I've checked my bios and 4X and 8x in enabled and my AGP frequency is set to 66mhz. My AGP Aperture Size is set to 128mb since my video card has 128mb ram. Is something wrong here? Do I have something set wrong? Any replies are most welcome. I think with my current set-up I should be scoring at least somewhere in the 9000's but maybe I'm totally wrong or don't know enough about 3D benchmarking.


Calmhorizons

BTW, I'm running the latest Detonator Drivers: 44.03

[Manfordjinsen]

I know that if you overclock your video card too much it can cause visual defects when running 3dmark2001 but it also will drop your overall 3dmark score alot. I usually get about 13500 3dmarks but if i overclock the memory on my video card too much it drops to like 7000. I'd say try running it stock first then start overclocking it.

[calmhorizons]

At stock speeds I'm getting a score of 5185. Something just ain't right with these scores. I should be scoring at least 8000-9000.

[Darthgary]

I score 8000 with my Radeon 9000 pro on a 2.4 Ghz P4