3DMark2001 SE is more than just a mind-blowing demo, ultra-cool interactive game and system stressing performance tests. If you are connected to the Internet, you can access the Online ResultBrowser, which will show you detailed information about the performance of your PC, as well as what kind of performance you could expect if you were to upgrade your graphics card or CPU. Comparing your score to results from other PCs from around the world is another feature of our Online ResultBrowser.

And this is only the beginning. Because the Online ResultBrowser is on-line, we are constantly developing and improving the services we offer. Therefore we recommend that you try our Online ResultBrowser immediately, but come back every now and then to see what new features have been developed since your last visit.



Our results database

When you have finished running 3DMark2001 SE, we hope that you continue your MadOnion.com experience by accessing our Online ResultBrowser and submit your result to our database. Your results will not be publicly displayed and there is no way anybody could locate your results or find out which one's belong to you (that is, unless you choose to "publish" your results and share them with your colleagues). The results we collect will be used for generating statistics and recommendations for other users. This means that every result you submit will help other users select reliable hardware upgrades, and their submitted results will give you more reliable information about the performance of other hardware other than what you currently have in your system.

There is also a separate "Submit Saved Results" functionality in 3DMark2001 SE for submitting earlier run benchmarks, for example from another PC.



Compare

It is nice to get a score for the performance of your PC, but it is even more valuable if you can compare that score with other systems. MadOnion.com's on-line services offer several different ways to compare scores. You can look at several different statistics from the results in our database, or you can take a look at results submitted and publicly posted by other users. Also, if you want to squeeze every bit of 3D power of your PC, remember to visit our discussion forum and ask for tuning advice from the highly talented people in the MadOnion.com community.

The Online ResultBrowser offers a number of comparisons based on the submitted results in our database. Of particular interest should be the comparison, where you see your own score and scores of other PCs very similar to yours, but with other graphics cards. Since these other results are based on real submitted results, it is most likely that your PC's performance would be the same if you would change your graphics card. The same kind of comparison is offered for CPUs - 3DMark scores of systems similar to yours, with different CPUs, are compared to your score.



Discussion board

The MadOnion.com discussion board is a great place to hang out on the web. Here people interested in PC performance meet from all around the world. There are TONS of posts in the MadOnion.com discussion forum, and if you have the time to read through some of these, you are bound to find some valuable information about PC performance. The discussion forum is also a good place to ask questions, get answers and give feedback about MadOnion.com, our benchmarks, and on-line services.

You can also discuss PC performance in real-time in our MadOnion.com chat. There are highly skilled moderators and other performance gurus from the MadOnion.com community, who are discussing the very latest in PC performance. It is also possible that there will be someone from the MadOnion.com staff taking part in these conversations. This is your chance to give real-time feedback about 3DMark2001 SE and the other MadOnion.com benchmarks and on-line services. You can also try your luck in finding out what MadOnion.com will be working on next, but many details about upcoming products are classified until closer to the time of their release.