3DMark2001 SE is the latest installment in
the 3DMark series by MadOnion. By combining DirectX8 support with completely new
graphics, it continues to provide good overall system benchmarks. 3DMark2001 SE
has been created in cooperation with the major 3D accelerator and processor
manufacturers to provide a reliable set of diagnostic tools. The suite
demonstrates 3D gaming performance by using real-world gaming technology to test
a system's true performance abilities. Tests include: DirectX8 Vertex Shaders,
Pixel Shaders and Point Sprites, DOT3 and Environment Mapped Bump Mapping,
support for Full Scene Anti-aliasing and Texture Compression and two game tests
using Ipion real-time physics. Higher 3DMark scores denote better
performance.
| 3DMark2001SE
Benchmark Results |
|
Motherboard (FSB/Memory) |
3DMarks |
Ranking |
| 1. |
|
11084 |
 |
| 2. |
512MB TwinMOS PC3200 (200/400 MHz) |
11942 |
 |
With the
higher FSB comes more bandwidth and 3DMark always loved more
bandwidth!
Quake III Arena is a First Person Shooter (FPS)
that revolutionized gaming as we know it. Using multiple light sources and
having graphics textures that can fill videocards, even after 3 years it's still
able to bring a cutting edge system to its knees.
| Quake III
Arena Fastest demo001 (SYSTEM) |
|
Motherboard (FSB/Memory) |
3DMarks |
Ranking |
| 1. |
512MB TwinMOS PC3200 (133/333 MHz) |
286.7 |
|
| 2. |
512MB TwinMOS PC3200 (200/400 MHz) |
294.1 |
|
| Quake III
Arena Fastest nv15demo (CPU STRESS) |
|
Motherboard (FSB/Memory) |
3DMarks |
Ranking |
| 1. |
512MB TwinMOS PC3200 (133/333 MHz) |
83.1 |
|
| 2. |
512MB TwinMOS PC3200 (200/400 MHz) |
87.6 |
|
Hmm... Quake III doesn't seem to get as much a performance boost out of the extra
bandwidth as we'd expect. Weird.
Conclusion:
While the 512MB PC3200 TwinMOS memory wasn't as fast
overall as their own 256MB PC2700 counter part, having a stick of 512MB DDR RAM
run at 200 MHz is still quite a feat. Perhaps if I had tested this memory first,
I would be a bit more enthusiastic - 200 MHz with most aggressive memory timings
is still very good.
I'm not sure of the price of the 512MB TwinMOS PC3200 DDR, but 512MB PC3200
sticks are still on the expensive side. Still, these days 512MB is the minimum a
user should have if they're running Win2K/XP. Going from 256MB to 512MB does
bring a noticeable performance increase!
Since memory does get quite warm during testing it would have been nice
if TwinMOS put memory heat spreaders on the DRAM to help keep things cool. Plus
they also look so neat too!
The 512MB TwinMOS PC3200 DDR RAM is some pretty nice memory for those who
like to run their system at stock speeds, but for unfortunately it's just not
overclocker memory. Most 512MB stick's aren't.
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