Low 3DMark score

[PotGuy]

Just ran 3dMark06 nad I ended up with 4494.

Somebody with virtually the same system except with an extra 100mhz on his 3700 had 7000+ marks.

Could this be to do with the new driver?

 

[V_R]

Is that with or without BOINC running? I noticed i got a bit of a droop with it running in the background, although it makes no difference in games.

How is game performance?

 

[PotGuy]

That was with most background programs off.

Games run alrgiht, but I can't really judge how they SHOULD be playing.

My 7900gt is overclocked anyway, so it should be right up there...?

 

[Alf]

well, try droping the overclock on your video card and you CPU and test it again.
Just cause the machine is stable dont mean its performing any better.

 

[GONNA-GET-U]

ive got a 7950 gx2 and i get a bit lower score than other ppl - i never did find out why

 

[PotGuy]

I dropped the cpu overclock and I ended up with a slightly lower score, so it isn't that. And the card is factory OC, not mine.

They seem to be compeltely random yet consistent. I was looking on some forums and a bloke with this:

A64-3700+ Sandiego / Abit KN8-SLI / 2GB Infineon BE5 2335-1t / XFX 7800GT (469/1232mhz) / X-Fi EM / 36GB Raptor.

Got 3250, which is a fair bit lower than mine, which makwes sense as I have a better graphics card.


Yet sometimes people seem to end up with 3000+ points than me.

Weird.

 

[Alf]

last time i ran 3Dmark 06, i got about 5000 give or take a few hundred.
what do you get in 05?

 

[PotGuy]

I don't know I don't have 05. Whats your system?