Please help me analyze my 3dMark score

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Greetings all

First time poster here at Tom's Hardware. I just built my custom gaming rig for about $2k and ran a few tests. I'm trying to tweak my graphics card settings to get the best results possible without my computer freaking out. Here's my system specs:

CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0GHz
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i
GPU:EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Dual Classified ACX Video Card
Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VII Hero
RAM: G.Skill Ripjaw X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
SSD: Samsung EVO 840 250GB
HDD: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA 1000G2 1000W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
OS: Windows 7 Professional SP1 (OEM) (64-Bit)

The score I received was 10340. Here's a 3dMark Link of my score and breakdown. http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/4381805
Is that about right for my build or should I be seeing higher numbers?

Also, I've having trouble overclocking my video card. Using EVGA Precision, I try to increase the GPU Clock to +400mhz and the Memory Clock to +1000 Mhz and I crash. This is with over voltage of 1300mV on. If I set it lower I don't crash but my scores typically don't break 10k. The settings I used to achieve the above score was +100mhz GPU and +500mhz Mem clock, which doesn't make sense since when I up the speed on both the GPU and mem, the scores go down. I'm not that experienced with overclocking, as you can tell, so I'm sure I must be doing something wrong. Hopefully you experts can help me out in this department.

TL;DR - I got a score of 10340 with the above build. Is that about right or way too low?

Thanks for all the help in advance!
 
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Icaraeus
You can't just increase the GPU clocks randomly, especially not on the scale of 400mhz and 1000mhz. Also, modifying the voltage without knowing what you're exactly doing is you basically asking to blow up your computer. Restore the clocks to the default settings set by EVGA, reboot your computer and install MSI Afterburner, 3DMark, GPU-Z and Unigine Valley 4.0. Start by increasing the GPU core clock by 10mhz and then stress test in the Unigine Valley 4.0 benchmark. Let it run to the very end - if it crashes at any time, even the very last moment (which happened to me a couple of times) then reduce your core clock to the last stable setting and test once more. Then set your core clock to stock and work on increasing your memory clock in...
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You can't just increase the GPU clocks randomly, especially not on the scale of 400mhz and 1000mhz. Also, modifying the voltage without knowing what you're exactly doing is you basically asking to blow up your computer. Restore the clocks to the default settings set by EVGA, reboot your computer and install MSI Afterburner, 3DMark, GPU-Z and Unigine Valley 4.0. Start by increasing the GPU core clock by 10mhz and then stress test in the Unigine Valley 4.0 benchmark. Let it run to the very end - if it crashes at any time, even the very last moment (which happened to me a couple of times) then reduce your core clock to the last stable setting and test once more. Then set your core clock to stock and work on increasing your memory clock in 10mhz increments. After you have found the highest stable setting for the memory then set the core clock to the highest stable and the memory clock about 30-50mhz lower than the highest setting. If it's unstable then reduce memory clock more. Then test afterwards in 3DMark and Furmark where it should be stable in practically everything if there are no artifacts (excluding the first 20-30 seconds in 3DMark 11 where there could be artifacts).
 
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