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3DMark05 System Benchmarker Released

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  • I have a system that fits on my laps; where can I get a kneetop system?
  • Grammar (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 29, 2004 @03:06PM (#10386456)
    its knee's

    Skip the most commonly mis-apostrophed word and do it on the next one...
  • Minimum System Recommendations

    x86 compatible processor with SSE support, 2GHz
    512MB of RAM
    1.5GB of free hard disk space
    Windows® 2000/XP with the latest updates & Service Packs
    DirectX®9.0c or later
    DirectX®9.0 compliant graphics adapter that has 128MB of memory and is capable of PixelShader 2.0 or higher
    Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6

    So dya think this'll run ok on my 486?

    Seriously though, they haven't made it clear what the 2ghz mark refers to - Intel or AMD although

    • Hmmm, 2200+, 1Gig RAM, gForce4 ti 4600 128MB. I wonder if it will work on my PC? Can't wait to test this on the nForce4 SLI monster I'm planning.
  • 280 mb? (Score:2, Interesting)

    by fred ugly ( 125371 )
    as in, millibits?
  • Don't everyone all comment at once. Anyway, 05 has top notch graphics as usual.
  • I've tried about ten mirrors and couldn't get a download from a single one. Most of the german "mirrors" just have a link "download at 4gamers" (so they are in fact just pages that contain a link to another mirror...) and 4gamers only allows 20kb/s unless you pay. Some sites didn't have a download link at all, some redirected me to their front page after clicking the download link. The torrent gives me about 2 kb/s (though I hope that increases with the slashdotting). Man, 3d Mark is a pain in the ass to do
  • Apostrophe Abuse (Score:2, Insightful)

    by philj ( 13777 )
    > and is sure to bring your system to its knee's

    Knee's? What? Is that supposed to mean more than 1 knee?

    FFS.

    Dammit. Slashdot has been trying to market itself as being more professional recently. See here [ostg.com]. Editors should do their jobs.

    Go and buy a copy of Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
  • I just ran it (Score:2, Informative)

    by bairy ( 755347 ) *
    AMD Athlon (32-bit) 2800 @ 2.3ghz, fsb 185
    1gb PC2700 Ram
    Nvidia 5700 Ultra overclocked

    05 score: 790. The top end scores (with seriously fast pcs at em) are 7000, some people have tried to run this on a fx5200(!). The lowest is a couple hundred.

    It's very VERY demanding. Makes my £100 gpu look crap. I'd like to see a video of this running smoothly.

  • 1.4 athlon but screwed only because of no SSE....
    • All Athlon XPs support SSE; thing is it has to be enabled by the BIOS, which quite a lot of motherboard manufacturers didn't do (i suffered it with my ECS K7S5A). Try a BIOS update, it might help.
  • Am I the only one that thinks this is a large AVI file and that 3DMark just tests your system at startup and uses that data to control the FPS in the playback? ;)

    Just kidding but, damn, I do this for a living and even I think the graphics are almost unreal. I'd love to be able to interact with some of the models, see what they did.

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