Why does this score seem wrong?

[BeepBeep2]

My Gaming Rig:
AMD Athlon X2 5600+
XFX 590 SLi Mobo
Lite-On 20x DVD Writer w/Lightscribe
Seagate Barracuda 250 Gig
Leadtek 8800 GTS 320 MB @ 540core/1680mem
2 gigs of Super Talent DDR2-800 @ 4-4-3-8 stock

Here are my scores, I know they are solid, but they don't seem high enough for what I have.

CPU Mark: 1156.9
2D Graphics (dissapointed):494.3
Memory Mark (dissapointed):465.7
Disk Mark: 387.6
CD Mark(I used a CD):438.1
3D Graphics(seems low for an 8800):1048.1
Total Passmark Rating:708.1

[sheepcoat]

Mines are rather disapointing as well.

Running

Intel E6600 2.4GHz @ 3.2ghz
Gigabyte 965P-DS3 F12bios
2 x 1GB Buffalo Firestix DDR800
EVGA 8800 GTS 320Mb stock settings
250 GB Western Digital Caviar 16mb 7.5k
Windows 64bit Vista Home Prem


CPU MARK: 2131.5
2D MARK: 537.2 <---------Most disapointing. bottleneck?
MEMORY MARK; 824.7
DISK MARK: 393.4 <--------no clue
CD MARK: 745.0
3D MARK 785.1 < -------simple tops at 1851fps? should be 3000+
PASS MARK: 1039

[BeepBeep2]

your DDR2-800 sticks are getting 824.7
while my 800 sticks only get 465 on timings of 4-4-3-8...

2dMark for me:494...yours 597...we should be getting at least 900-

[sheepcoat]

I've been looking around other forums and sites with differnt PC benchmark software. Seems that they TOO suffer from low 2D marks.Perhaps its just the basic shift from 2d optimization to 3d optimization in Graphics cards these days, or a driver.

http://forums.pcpitstop.com/lofiversion/index.php/t142612.html

I'm wondering how you acheived 1000 3dscore, while i'm just getting close to 800. I tried moderately OCing the GPU to 600/900 and i'm still getting the exact same scores. I'm thinking maybe its just this test, so i ran 3DMark06 and got 8820 at stock card settings, and exactly 10004 3Dmarks when running gpu and cpu OC'd. so 3dmark says i'm pretty much on the spot. But i think i have some kind of bandwidth limiting factor.

I haven't adjusted my ram yet, because i'm not 100% sure how to. I read that it may increase scores 3%-15%


just a question, whats your 3Dmark06 Score ?




oh and on another note, For ram, if i just lower to more agressive timings without changing anything else is that fine ? mines 5-5-5-18


thanks

[BeepBeep2]

My 3DMark Score is Good for my setup...8640 on vista...lol... i forgot u have an E6600 oc'ed lol i have an AMD 5600+ wich is like an E6400 Stock lol.

I'm still frustrated about my memory score:465...u get over 800....

And yes more aggresive timings increase perf by +10&#37; lol!
But u cant just lower them out of nowhere...you need quality sticks...and the manufacterer's stock settings should be at least 4-4-4-12 to start with...im running my sticks stock...lol...they came as 4-4-3-8....
most memory requires a voltage increase.

Oh...also by the way> the GTS comes stock at 500/800...mines stock at 540/840

lol hope this helps and i hope you can help me/ lol

EDIT: LOL!!! I also forgot you are running a 64bit os...lol you should have a score WAY better than that
Oh...lol...by the way im using NVidia's BETA driver. That is why it is over 1000...

[sheepcoat]

Thats nice ram. I wonder how big of a performance increase i'd get with those.

1) I noticed that nVidia in their nTune software has a feature that optimizes your system for you. I myself don't have a nForce chipset, but you do. Perhaps if you run it, it may tweek your ram settings close to optimal settings.

2) Use SiSandra and run some benchmarks. You can download it here: http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/index.html?dir=dload&location=sware_dl_3264&langx= en&a==

I just downloaded it today, and its great software. Run some memtests and after it tells you what to do to optimize your system. Alot of people use this as well.

As for my 8800gts, i'm not on beta drivers, i didn't even know they were out.I'll update the beta drivers, and retest.

yes i'm running 64-bit, but from what i read, 64-bit isn't natively supported on alot of benchmarks, so there shouldn't be too much of a difference. yet. (at least is what i hope so)

my ram is rated 4-5-5-18, but i read great reveiws about my ram oc-ability wise, What i'm hopiing for is just to run at 4-4-4-12 because i heard that was the best for my cpu. or made the biggest difference. if i keep lowering these numbers 1 by 1, and upping voltage, i can't screw anything up....right ? mines runs at 1.8v at the momont, reveiws say it can hadle 1.25

in the end, i just wanted a system that gets over 10k in 3d marks2006, i'm still happy.


Hope i helped you, and thanks for helping me.