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3DMark05 System Benchmarker Released

Posted by Zonk on from the the-roof-is-on-fire dept.

inotocracy writes " The next 3DMark benchmarking application has been released. 3DMark 05 weighs in at about 280mb (give or take) and is sure to bring your system to its knee's." Thanks also to Steve for the article taking a look at the new version.

21 comments

  1. Torrent by arrow · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.futuremark.com/download/files/3DMark05_ v100_installer.exe.torrent

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    1. Re:Torrent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Anyone have a good link for tweaking bittorrent, because my downloads are always total and utter crap through it.

      I just don't see it as being useful like everyone else seems to.

    2. Re:Torrent by moonbender · · Score: 1

      Apart from having a somewhat recent version of any up-to-date client (BitTornado, Azureus, lots more), there isn't a whole lot to tweak. If you get bad download speeds, it's either because the torrent is horribly seeded or because you don't upload enough yourself. Capping upload at a low level is heavily penalised in BT. It might be a firewalling issue, too, I guess. Incidently, I'm just downloading the Tribes: Vengeance demo using BT, faster than using most web sites and without any mirror hunting.

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  2. knee's system by brauwerman · · Score: 1

    I have a system that fits on my laps; where can I get a kneetop system?

  3. Grammar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    its knee's

    Skip the most commonly mis-apostrophed word and do it on the next one...

  4. System by bairy · · Score: 1
    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 I assume Intel.

    I am looking forward to running this on here (amd 2.2g, 1g ram, Nvidia 5700U) although I think it will struggle... hopefully *grin*

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    1. Re:System by Kris_J · · Score: 1

      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.

  5. Umm.... What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    "...and is sure to bring your system to its knee's"

    My system's knee's what? C'mon, don't leave us hanging, finish the sentence.

    Oh, you mean the submitter DOESN'T FRICKIN' UNDERSTAND THE BASIC RULES FOR THE USE OF AN APOSTROPHE?? If you can't understand that simple rule, they you sure as hell can't possibly write code that is of any value whatsoever.

    Go the hell away until you learn English at a 6th grade level.

    1. Re:Umm.... What? by TechSptSucks · · Score: 1

      "they you sure as hell" Then you can go to hell as well buddy. I are just kidding.

  6. 280 mb? by fred+ugly · · Score: 2, Interesting

    as in, millibits?

  7. Good as usual by Satertek · · Score: 1

    Don't everyone all comment at once. Anyway, 05 has top notch graphics as usual.

  8. Their mirrors suck. by KDR_11k · · Score: 1

    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 download.

    I guess I'll rename the binary to disable any potential driver tweaks (who knows, maybe NVidia and/or Ati got preview versions to prepare their wallhacks... uh... driver optimizations for) and get more accurate benchmarks.

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    1. Re:Their mirrors suck. by wheany · · Score: 1

      Filerush.com has a torrent.

  9. Apostrophe Abuse by philj · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > 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. Editors should do their jobs.

    Go and buy a copy of Eats, Shoots and Leaves.

  10. I just ran it by bairy · · Score: 2, Informative
    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.

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    1. Re:I just ran it by masterQba · · Score: 1
      p4 2.4 ht @ 2.88
      512 ram
      r 9700 pro OC

      thorugh the whole test the fps didn't go above 15. i got something around 2080 3dmarks.

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  11. Sad by UltimaL337Star · · Score: 1

    1.4 athlon but screwed only because of no SSE....

    1. Re:Sad by Lisandro · · Score: 1

      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.

    2. Re:Sad by TechSptSucks · · Score: 1

      The 1.4 althon is not an athlon xp. It is based on the original tbird core from the pIII days.

    3. Re:Sad by TechSptSucks · · Score: 1

      Oh, by the way, I feel you pain on those crappy ecs mobos. They suck.

  12. Okay, I'm impressed! by PhoenixOne · · Score: 1
    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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