Embarrassing 3dmark06 scores on new build.

[jonhuz]

Don't know what's going on I play Crysis on a very high custom cfg @720p at a steady 30fps. Just installed 3dmark for giggles, first score....around 4k

Spec:
6600 @ 3.2
4gb ram @ 800mhz
8800 BFG GTX
Raptor 10k as primary drive
Vista x64 home premium

Should I be crying?

 

[jonhuz]

Asus P5K, GPU-Z is reading bus at PCI-E x16

3dmark reports my HDD as null

 

[jonhuz]

Everything's on default.

4505k that round, jesus. Going to try reinstalling. Pretty sure I installed all mobo drivers.

 

[jonhuz]

3DMark Score 4067 3DMarks

SM 2.0 Score 1469 Marks

SM 3.0 Score 1453 Marks

CPU Score 4577 Marks


overclock on cpu is prime stable 8hrs.
All steam games run at 1920x1200, maxed, 90fps solid.

 

[jonhuz]

Corsair HX 620W.

Just ran rthdribl 1.2 @ 1920x1200 / multi-sampling x16 - 29fps


vista: 5.9 performance across the board.

 

[jonhuz]

Reduce the clock speed to 2.4 (9x266). Ran 3dmark again:


3DMark Score 11679 3DMarks

SM 2.0 Score 4747 Marks

SM 3.0 Score 5214 Marks

CPU Score 3456 Marks

This is my first build/first overclock, can't see why lowering the cpu has improved the score. Running at 3.2 (8x400) was stable in prime95 and had good temps.

Any advice would be great

 

[jonhuz]

It's locked to 100. I've loosened the ram timings to 5-5-5-23 (from 12 - 2x2Gb Black Dragons).

All the thermal threading options are turned off. Only thing I haven't tweaked is the NB voltage which is set to auto. Should it be 1.25 or 1.40 or higher?

 

[jonhuz]

Upped the NB voltage at the overclock I found stable and it seems to be running much better.

Need to rerun prime to make sure. Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[jonhuz]

Now you mention it snowdog I think it read pci-e x1 @16, now upping the NB gpu-z is reading pci-e x16 @16.

 

[jonhuz]

3DMark Score 13078 3DMarks

SM 2.0 Score 5263 Marks

SM 3.0 Score 5480 Marks

CPU Score 4556 Marks

Alls well.