innervision311

If you didn't know, 3DMark is the standard in gaming benchmarking. It tells you basically how well your computer can run games and puts your computer's power into a numerical score.

If you don't have it you can get it here

I'm running a relatively old rig in the computer world. AMD64 3000+, 6800GT 256MB, 1G Corsair DDR 400. My rig doesn't handle the tests very well I need to upgrade within a year. When I have enough money I'm going to get an entirely new system but that probably won't be until after this summer.

My system scores a 1614 which is pretty damn sad if you ask me. I need to do some tweaking to this thing because I know it can perform better.

I was inspired to post this because I saw a new Alienware rig reviewed in PC Gamer that gets 17,301 3DMarks. That shit is insane... It's this computer except it's hooked up with the following:

Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme 2.66 Ghz
2GB DDR2 RAM
Dual 768MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX's in SLI config

It's a beast to say the least.