6950 being lazy?

[Leo101b]

I recently nabbed myself a 6950, which so far in terms of Heaven and gaming has been brilliant. However I was suprised to see that in 3Dmark 06 and 11 the load never exceeded 40%, this lead to a score in 06 that was almost as low as my old 4870's. I gave up with 11. Sooo, does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? (I have a sneaky feeling it could be the CPU)

Random info that could help :
Card has never gone over 60C
Flashed to 6970 and running at stock 6970 clocks
MSI DKA790GX Platinum mobo
6 gigs Corsair dominator 800Mhz
AMD Athlon IIx4 at 3.33 Ghz
Vista 64bit

 

[Cleeecooo]

3D mark06 is 5 years old. nobody uses it any more so i am not surprised your results are rubbish. Don't worry about it - try a couple of other up to date benchmarks

 

[TheRealDeal]

Forget about 3dmark 06 because its to old these days to compare newer cards. It was not even that good when the 4870 was released. I am not sure about 3dmark 11 also as your 4870s are dx10.1 and your 6950 can run dx 11 so the comparison can't really be made.

What i do know is 2x4870 is still a really fast solution and will not be to far off your 6950 performance wise. What you should notice though is the 6950 plays games smoother than your 2x4870 as it is faster and should have more consistant frame rates.

I see you have unlocked it to a 6970. Which way did you go? theres the full 6970 bios which unlocks the shaders and memory timings which has led to a few failures as the memory on some 6950's was not upto running at 6970 speeds or the one that just unlocks the shaders. You want the one that unlocks the shaders only and then you alter the clock speeds and voltages as required.

I think if you can overclock that cpu some more you will not have to worry to much about.

 

[TropicLightning]

Read the forum threads a bit and get rid of that 70 BIOS.