Poor Scores in 3DMark05 and 06

P4 3.8
Asus P5N32 SLI
4gig RAM (nothing special, from my Dell... so... Dell RAM... I guess)
a couple of a SATA Hard drives (not in RAID)
2 x BFG 7900TGX OC SLI'd
OCZ GameXStream 700W Power Supply
A few fans kicking around (temp is not an issue)
(clean install of everything)
*WinXP SP2, 4x1gig, i will get my 05 scores tonight*


(cant remember 05 scores but it was not a huge increase)
3DMark06 - 5500ish
3DMark06 SLI - 6500ish

I would have thought that with all the other parts the same and adding another 7900 GTX OC it would have gone up more than that... Going to install CS-Source tonight and see how that one tests...

Anyone have any ideas? (im guessing RAM will be high on peoples thoughts... sadly there is only two processors better than mine that go on this board, I have no foresight... *sigh*)

Thanks yo'all, Happy Hunting !!

Post your 05 scores. 06 favors dual cores highly, which is why you maybe scoring low. Also, I am assuming you RAM is 4x1GB, do you have it setup to run in dual channel mode? Also, your running Windows XP, correct? I have always heard that XP can only utitlize 3 gigs of RAM. Idk... Run the CS:S Stress test too, let us know your score on that as well.

You would think 7900GTX in SLI would be higher, could be the CPU is bottlenecking. A 7950GX2, which is supposed to score lower than 7900GTX SLI would be in the 8,000+ range on a stock E6600. Are you using the new Nvidia drivers which have SLI support?

they are a little low. it could be that CPU as it is a single core p4 right. could be that. have you tried looking at the orb facility on futuremarks website to compare with similar specs. i get about 8k in 06. it seems to be what others get so i aint complaining.

Interesting you say that about 3GIG...
When I had this processor and memory in my Dell GX620 Tower, it registered in windows as 3.5Gig... I thought, what a b@57@rd... but oh well... then when I put this rig together, it is showing up as 3Gig... now im P'd off... so, I will probably take 2 out and put it back in the dell... which is missing a CPU now....

As for SLI... I enabled it in the nvidia drivers thing and when I run 3DMark06 it has a bar up the left hand side that goes up and down during the testing... I will get my 05 scores... but i know they are dissapointing, i was wondering if there is anything anywhere else i might have to enable something? (there was something in the bios that i enabled...)

Informative Screenies mousemonkey, ON YA !!

On Ya Team !!

No wucking forries mate

What are your break downs on 3d06 score's (are you using default settings?) I think your score are way low. these are mine i doubt dual core (mine at 3.8ghz) will increase score by that much Also single 7900gtx with 4gb corsair 675mhz ram. Dell uses 533mhz mem i think.(also what drivers are you using?)

3DMark Score 6441 3DMarks

SM 2.0 Score 2821 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 2617 Marks
CPU Score 1986 Marks

My 3dmark 05
3DMark Score 10081 3DMarks
CPU Score 6798 CPUMarks

Detailed Test Results
Game Tests
GT1 - Return To Proxycon 39.7 fps
GT2 - Firefly Forest 29.1 fps
GT3 - Canyon Flight 56.7 fps

CPU Tests
CPU Test 1 3.5 fps
CPU Test 2 5.8 fps

Well after a couple of beers and a bit of tweaking this seems to be the most I can squeeze out of my (mis-matched?) set-up

'05


'06


C'mon mate, post some screenies pleeeze.

Sorry about the delay.... and the file size of these...
All settings were standard from the 3DMark 05 and 06... just dead standard... and i didnt have anythign else running, i even disabled my wireless nic...
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/9462/scorespu2.png (419kb)
http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/7655/slijm9.png (766kb)
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/3433/cpuzcpudw4.png (689)
http://img127.imageshack.us/img127 [...] iesje9.png (766)
http://img332.imageshack.us/img332 [...] oryap7.png (689)
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/155/cpuzspdmp4.png (689)

I got CS: Source installed, with settings of 1920x1200, high everything, 2xAA... 2x something else too.... and.... stuff... got 140fps....
F.E.A.R is still to come (but not any time soon, i have misplaced my DVD... idiot)

Dude, have you got the Coolbits hack going on?, if not a quick google will sort it for you 8) , give that a go and see if it gets those GTX's cooking with gas

Dude, bit late I know but did you realise that your PCI Bus is running at 8x not 16x?

Yes that is what I meant, I don't know if it's the reason for low scores but the mobo listed is a 32x and the Nvidia control panel screen shot shows the bus at 8x, I'm using a different mobo granted,the Abit A8N32x, but the Nividia control panel on mine shows the pci bus at 16x, this would suggest to me that somethings amiss.

Well according to the manual p.11 you should be running at 16x + 16x = 32x, on my Nvidia control panel it states Pci bus running at 16x yours shows only 8x, that is if this is the board that you listed ftp://dlsvr02.asus.com/pub/ASUS/m [...] li_dlx.pdf

Ahhhh, now it all becomes clear (maybe) you might have the earlier Nforce 4 (I think) chipset which only does 16x for one slot or 8x + 8x when in Sli whereas I have a later version that does 16x + 16x when in Sli, 91.47 is the drver version I'm using but I don't think that's the issue, my best mate has an MSI K8N Diamond with such a chipset so I bought a 7900GTO for him so I could nick his 7900GT, and yeah I suppose I am a bit of an addict but I could give it up if I wanted to. nah probably not