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High Spec system with poor 3dmark scores.

barney

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High Spec system with poor 3dmark scores. Edit: need help with crossfire.

I did post this in someone elses thread in the general hardware forum but thought i might get better luck starting a new post here instead.

First my system spec:
Duel core [email protected] (200X12 stock)
2gb PC3200 Ram (cant remeber ram timings off the top of my head)
X2 300gb Sata drives in raid 0
X1 300gb sata drive
Msi RD480 Neo2-FI mother board
X1900XTX Master Card
X1900XTX Slave Card
700w Epsilon PSU

3DMark '05 score: 11378
3DNark '06 score: 5360

Now these scores pretty much suck considering the spec and im out of ideas as to what it could be. Stangly enough looking at my previous results my graphics cards scored higher in '06 when i had my +3000 cpu in! System seems stable and it runs games fine with max res/settings but it really should be performing better.

Using 6.3 drivers, windows XP 32bit.
 
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barney said:
I did post this in someone elses thread in the general hardware forum but thought i might get better luck starting a new post here instead.

First my system spec:
Duel core [email protected] (200X12 stock)
2gb PC3200 Ram (cant remeber ram timings off the top of my head)
X2 300gb Sata drives in raid 0
X1 300gb sata drive
Msi RD480 Neo2-FI mother board
X1900XTX Master Card
X1900XTX Slave Card
700w Epsilon PSU

3DMark '05 score: 11378
3DNark '06 score: 5360

Now these scores pretty much suck considering the spec and im out of ideas as to what it could be. Stangly enough looking at my previous results my graphics cards scored higher in '06 when i had my +3000 cpu in! System seems stable and it runs games fine with max res/settings but it really should be performing better.

Using 6.3 drivers, windows XP 32bit.
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That CPU is bottlenecking the xfire setup.
Have you got the sliders set to performance with no aa and af?

I get more in both 05 and 06 with my single 7900GTX

Have you got all the latest drivers for your mobo etc...
 
Only the Demo versions so it is all turned off. As far as i can remeber all the AA settings are set to let the software decide. I will give it a go tonight and make sure they are all turned off completely in CCC.

Yep latest drivers for everything and flashed with the most recent bios.

Why would my CPU be bottlenecking the graphics cards??
 
even at 2.4 ghz i reckon the CPU would provide a bottleneck. seems that unless you have a 3ghz CPU nowadays you will always bottlenck a graphics card.... even my X800XL gets bottlenecked sometimes.
 
Just double checked all my CCC settings and shut down all the background programs and got exactly the same scores :( My CPU might bottle neck my system to a degree but still it should be better then this?
 
barney said:
Just double checked all my CCC settings and shut down all the background programs and got exactly the same scores :( My CPU might bottle neck my system to a degree but still it should be better then this?
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if i run 2.6ghz on my fx60 i get 14.4k, so 2.4 should give me about 13k, so something is still wrong with his system
 
With a little bit of tweaking i have got another 600 point on the score but thats still pretty crappy.

Just dont know what else to try.
 
Looks like Crossfire is disabled. My scores are similar and that's on a 4200+ and a X1900XT. Doublecheck that Crossfire is enabled. If you disable Crossfire, do your scores drop?
 
CCC says its enabled. will try and disable it and go again. Just tried setting the bios settings to X8 on each channel rather then leaving it at auto and the results actually dropped so it does seem that the crossfire isnt enabling properly. Will disable crossfire and retest. If its not enabling any idea's why? Both cards are detecting and both seem to be working ok when i had them in single mode.
 
Crossfire can be a bit of a pain to configure. Control center dont help. Start afresh and possibly use the Control panel instead if you know how, it may help.
 
Just retested in single card mode, was a slight drop in the results. Getting 10150 in single card mode and got 11943 in crossfire. This is the first time i have worked with a crossfire system, how do you set it up via the control panel?
 
Man im going to cry. Just uninstalled all the ATI stuff and reinstalled. Re-enabled crossfire, put all the settings to performance and now im scoring 8513!!!!!!!!!!
 
Ok removed ATI drivers and software again and reinstalled now getting 11373.

Anyone have any suggestions at all? Maybe 6.2 drivers? Knew i should have gone SLI stupid crappy ATI drivers.
 
Just tried 6.14 drivers, scored 11814. Im pretty sure it has to be something to do with the drivers but i just dont know what else i can try. I tried downloading the oblivion hotfix for 6.3 drivers in the hope that it would have something that fixes it but the file is corrupt. Going to try and download it again, reinstall 6.3 then put the hotfix on.

I have sent a ticket to ATI but dont hold out much hope there. Just completely out of ideas now.

Only thing left i can think of is PCI latency settings in the bios. i have no idea what the hell this is tbh, anyone know what settings this should be at?
 
Crossfire runs both cards at the slower speed card settings......correct?
Check that both cards are set to their correct settings! it myte just be that you need to totally remove all traces of existing drivers and then reinstall again, pain in the ass i know but thats life....it will work for you eventually
 
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