Ahh forget what I said...

So, 12,000+ is what I should be looking for? I must admit, at the time I ran the test, I had the browser and e-mail open, as well as NAV, plus I was burning a CD (I wish publishers of printed music wouls arrange the songs in the same order as they appear on the album...). This may have distorted the results somewhat.Cheers,Gosta.http://hifi.avsim.net/activesky/images/wxrebeta.jpg

That sounds about right Gosta, you should be getting over 17000+ with that GFX card - next time just run on a clean boot.Take Care.

>Right, here we go: 5971. Don't know, if that's good or bad,>but maybe I should have shut down a few programs before>running it... :).Well, I got something 12,000ish on the rig listed in my signature using 3DMark 2001SE, and close to 3,000 in 3DMark 2003. Just tried comparing these values with other results listed over at Futuremark, but all I get is a "we don't have sufficient data to compare with" message. Oh well :-) . In fact, I really don't give a rat's F to some abstract figures chewed up by some benchmark...or, more precisely, whether my system is neck-and-neck with this and that one. I used to be a hunter for high benchmark values when I was young and foolish (as if that was a very long time ago :-hah ), to be honest, but I'm no longer. I'm more concerned about getting constantly good results with those few games I play on a regular basis - which are FS2004 and Train Simulator with the occasional spree into Unreal Tournament (the original one, which I think is still the best as far as playability goes) or Edge of Chaos - and these four games run amazingly well on my rig. If worse were to come to worse, I could still throw in an XP 2800 - at least I think this is the maximum for my board - or toss in another 512 MB of RAM (which I'm planning to do by the end of the year anyway), but I don't think I'll be doing another major upgrade until AMD's new 64-bit CPUs have settled into the market, have their little kinks ironed out and are available in a larger number of speeds, which I don't think will have happened before 2005 or so.'Nuff said.

Hi Dominik,yes, I never ran any benchmark tests before - I just built my system, tweaked it, and it runs FS fine. So, I'm not really worried about it :). However, I did run it again, and got somewhere around 6700. BTW, do you need to enter your graphics card settings in the program? BTW, do you have to enter your graphics card settings somewhere in 3DMark ? In every test, the program said '0 x AA', while I have anti-aliasing set at 6 x. As to your motherboard, if you have the first revision, the fastest you can go is the XP3000+ with 333MHz FSB (that's the one I have). If you have v2, you can go up to XP3200+.Cheers,Gosta.http://hifi.avsim.net/activesky/images/wxrebeta.jpg