I've had alot of emails claiming that 3DMark 2003 is killing their systems with P4's @ 2.4ghz scoring just 1500 3DMark 2003 points. Peeps are crying: F*** I need a new system! Well here's how you can hit 4965 3DMarks 2003 points with a Nvidia-nForce2! But you still need a Radeon 9700 Pro. LOL
While I was fooling around with the latest and greatest from FutureMark, I stumbled upon a bug which can really open the gates of cheating if it isn't fixed pronto. Here's the steps to reproduce it:
1) Set your 3D card at default clock with your favourite overclocking utility
2) Open 3D Mark 2003
3) Start benchmarking, then press Escape so that benchmarking can't finish.
4) Now open your favourite 3D card overclocker again and overclock it like there's no tomorrow
5) Benchmark again, but this time let the benchmark finish
6) Publish your score to the Online Browser for the world to see
If you look carefully, you will see that the 3D Card clock that is being reported is the one you had when you started 3D Mark, and not the actual overclocked values that you used. So it seems that 3D Mark checks for the clock when it starts and NOT when it benchmarks! As you can easily realize, unless this flaw is patched, there is no way you can tell whether the scores you see are coming from overclocked cards or not. I guess FutureMark should move swiftly now and patch this version ASAP.
Big thanks to Neowin.net! And don't forget to check out their scores! I Just hit 1580 points with my PIII 866mhz PC! What you get... Hehe
While I was fooling around with the latest and greatest from FutureMark, I stumbled upon a bug which can really open the gates of cheating if it isn't fixed pronto. Here's the steps to reproduce it:
1) Set your 3D card at default clock with your favourite overclocking utility
2) Open 3D Mark 2003
3) Start benchmarking, then press Escape so that benchmarking can't finish.
4) Now open your favourite 3D card overclocker again and overclock it like there's no tomorrow
5) Benchmark again, but this time let the benchmark finish
6) Publish your score to the Online Browser for the world to see
If you look carefully, you will see that the 3D Card clock that is being reported is the one you had when you started 3D Mark, and not the actual overclocked values that you used. So it seems that 3D Mark checks for the clock when it starts and NOT when it benchmarks! As you can easily realize, unless this flaw is patched, there is no way you can tell whether the scores you see are coming from overclocked cards or not. I guess FutureMark should move swiftly now and patch this version ASAP.
Big thanks to Neowin.net! And don't forget to check out their scores! I Just hit 1580 points with my PIII 866mhz PC! What you get... Hehe
