Will 3dmark 05 work with me? a couple of questions...(please open)

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I really love the 3dmark searies, but i think i have been stopped this year....I am not sure if my cpu meets min requirements.

I have a 1.8ghz pentium 4 northwood 533mhz

futuremark said:
Intel® or AMD® compatible processor running on 2 GHz or above.

SO i am below...but below that it says....

Futuremark said:
It is possible that 3DMark05 will run on PCs that do not meet the requirements above, but the benchmark performance may be seriously affected. For example, insufficient video memory will result in texture swapping - this will cause fluctuations during the tests, reducing the reliability of the generated scores.


SO do you think it would work? I know i can safely overclock to 2ghz, but is that safe for a benchmark...i tested it with 3dmark03 and no artifacts or anything...but 05 is harder right?


One more thing....Somewhere on the site (i think its 3dmark05 FAQs) it says that the processor must have SSE, I would presume a pentium 4 has that right? Does my model have it?

Thanks guys. (i bet i will get a crazy low score..but in my opinion 3dmark series is pretty cheap for what it offers.) full specs....


1.8ghz p4
768mb ram
ATI radeon 9600XT 128mb
 
Your CPU is the main thing holding you back but you won't have major issues like they may hint to. Try running it right now. You will get a better score than you may think.

By the way, there are not artifacts when you OC your CPU. Your CPU does not display images. ;)
Although stability is a side effect of clocking it too high.
 
by artifacts i meant stability.

Well here is the problem i have old skool 56k, so i have to buy the cd (or else i would just "upgrade" for 10 buks) so should i OC and buy the CD?

And concidering i get a super low score in 03 i doubt i will get an OK score in 05. I get like 3999, while other ppl get 15000!

Whatever. thanks. so should i buy it?

Oh does my cpu support SSE? u didnt answer that part.
 
Yes, it supports SEE and SEE2.
By the way, the 9600XT beats the 5950Ultra in 3Dmark2005. ;)
 
hmmm....dat strange...very strange..isnt the 5959ultra equal to like the 9800XT?!

Ok, i am sooooooooo getting this.


meh my mom will prbably only give it to me for christmas...or maybe not..i dont know.


thanks though asus.
 
ok now dis is offtopic but since u mod....can u tell me why now the ******** links no working?

edit: trout war
 
oh does anyone know if you can buy 3dmark05 in retail stores (Target, Bestbuy, COmpusa...) Or only on line?
 
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