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Saturday, September 25 2004

3DMark05 draws closer  by James W at 11:59

3dmark05 Whether you love to push your expensive hardware to the limit, or just enjoy watching graphics demos you'll going to be drooling at the thought of the next 3DMark. The futuremark website now has a countdown 3DMark05, you'll need to allow popups on their site to see it. Requirements for the new benchmarking software include a DirectX9 compatible graphics card with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 and a CPU over 2gig. To wet your appetite just check out these two screenshots. Pic1 Pic2
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Mani
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25 September 2004 12:09
Increasingly, these theoretical benchmarks are only useful for comparing the performance of your own PC after tweaks and should be ignored for evreything else.
Tricky
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25 September 2004 12:18
yeah its rubbish how people use the driver settings to make it run as fast as possible but look crap.. ive not cared about the benchmark value since the first 3dmark01, just like the eye candy now


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