Urgent! Severe underperformance?

[mka_786]

www.3dmark.com/3dm11/3774693
This is a benchmark of a system of mine that has the Ati Driver 12.3
It has an i7 3770 and crossfired HD 7850s. The issues I have is te following:
300mhz core clock which suggests the gpu is in idle mode during the benchmark for some reason. How would I fix this?
150mhz memory clock?
Also each of the graphics cards has 2gb memory so surely the total memory should be 4gb not the 2gb shown?
Also is there a way to easily change the core clock or something?

 

[Surveyor]

Why do you think it's severely underperforming?

I've no idea what a good score is but yours seems similar to the majority on the comparison chart.

VRAM in CrossFire isn't added together.

You have two 2GB cards but effectively you still only have 2GB of VRAM.

 

[mka_786]

Ok... Wow I was confused :S. for some reason I thought the core clock being set so low was affecting my score. I take it it's not? THANK YOU btw for the quick response

 

[Surveyor]

I'm by no means an expert on 3DMark11 but your score seems in line with the "simlar systems".

Are the cards overclocked at all?

 

[MagicBoy]

PC HEALTH CHECK
Your PC is performing properly.

Nuff said.

 

[mka_786]

No the cards arent over clocked yet but I thought that a 300mhz core clock as shown is too low? And yeah I do realise it wa a bit of a stupid question

 

[currob]

I think 3dmark system info does not scan your system during the actual benchmark, rather before the benchmark when the application is loading, hence your vga card would be at it's idle clock speed when the data is obtained.

 

[andybird123]

I think 3dmark system info does not scan your system during the actual benchmark, rather before the benchmark when the application is loading, hence your vga card would be at it's idle clock speed when the data is obtained.

+1, try running something like MSI afterburner and see what it's actually doing when you run 3dmark

 

[jeff6475]

Blame the gremlins