Low 3dmark06 marks

[Arclite]

Just installed a 8800gtx today and ran 3dmark06 after installing forceware 158.24 drivers. Got a score of 4051, and a big paragraph in red saying that the drivers i used are not passed by future mark. Please tell me that its a driver issue and have got nothing to do with my hardware. If not whats going on here?


Thanks in advance

 

[Arclite]

Well after much tinkering around i went into my bios and turned the settings to its factory settings and see if thats causing the problem. I was about to get into windows when the dreaded "BootMGR missing" problem showed its ugly face, took me an hour to sort that out. Re-installed vista and this time just updated forceware drivers to 158.24 and only installed 3dmark06. Ran it and got 8061 points, thats on stock 1.86Ghz. is that about right? Im gonna overclock the cpu again and see whether the problem was infact with windows. Thanks for your inputs so far.

 

[Arclite]

ok im stumped. 3dmark crashed @3.4Ghz so i tried 3.2Ghz, got 6091. lowered it to 2.8Ghz it went up to 6609. Came down to 2.1Ghz score went upto 8001. Then @ 1.86Ghz (i.e stock) 8863. What the hell is happening here?

 

[Arclite]

Any1? please!

 

[Arclite]

I used the card in my brothers quad core extreme and it gave me a 14020. The card seems to be fine. Another strange thing, i used a lower multi with stock FSB(i.e 6x266) and ran the test at 1680x1050 and got 9031. im gona do a complete system check (includes taking out all major parts, checking cables, PSU, etc and then run some tests with my old 7600Gt. There must be something not right somewhere. The clock 3.4Ghz was stable with prime95 for 13 hours. Dont know whats the problem. Until then please keep posting your suggestions. :

 

[Arclite]

This thread should give you a reasonable comparison
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17741390

Thanks for the link, saw an e6300 @3.4 scoring lower than my stock but its not paired with a GTX. Anyway, checked all my hardware components. Nothing is wrong with them. I think its the drivers. Any1 know the best drivers out there for the gtx for vista 64? the new beta 162 are for only xp otherwise would have tried those.

 

[Arclite]

Thanks! The trouble was with the forceware 158.24 drivers. I installed the drivers which came with the card (forceware 100.**) ran 3dmark again on 2.6Ghz and scored 10883. I think thats sounds ok to me. Gonna push it to 3.4Ghz now to see the increase,if any.

 

[Arclite]

Ran it on 3GHz with stock clocks on the gtx and got 11,789. I think if i clock the card further and push the e6300 towards a stable 3.4Ghz clock i could go past the 12000 mark. Anyway, main problem was with the PCI-E frequency in the bios. Whenever i clocked the fsb, the pci-e frequency automatically goes up and since i had it on auto it was choking the gtx. As soon as i set it to 110 the proxycon highest framerate went up to 91 as compared to 27 before. Thanks everyone for your prompt help. Now my next target would be to get my e6300 clock sorted out.

 

[Arclite]

One more question, how do i overclock the gtx?

 

[Arclite]

I've been having this exact same problem. Overclock systema nd graphic card seems to die. superpi is fine and everything seems ok.

Even set PCI-E to 100mhz and still scores drop to half what I expect. Fresh install and tried slightly older drivers I used before for a couple of months and still problem persists.

try setting the pci-e clock to 110, u should see a big difference in score, theoratically. I surely did.

Today ran 3dmark at 3.2Ghz with stock clocks on the gtx and got 12002. Im very sure that if i clock my card i will improve on that. Also ran stalker on max settings @ 1680x1050, all sliders to the max, it ran without a hitch. This game surely has major stability problems but that aside its a good game.