8800gts 3dmark 06 question...!!

I was wondering what everyone was getting with the 8800gts 640mb in 3d mark 06. I seem to be getting lower scores then the rest. I am in the:

high 2k's for sm2.0
high 3k's for sm3.0
and 1.5k for my cpu.

My total is 7002, or around there. When I am looking at other scores it seems that peole are getting consistently higher scores then me, especially in sm2.0.
I have a feeling that it is my cpu but I was just wondering. When I play games, dark messiah, hl2, bf2142, I play with max aa and af and have no problems at all. I am getting 80 plus in cs source stress test and 100% above 40 in fear with a max of 210. I think that at the low resolution in 3dmark06 with no aa or af my cpu is creating a bottleneck. What does everyone think? For now everything runs great but In the next few months or so I will probably go with a c2d.

thanks
marc

the 3dmarks are one thing.

but how it plays is the biggest.

if it plays your games good i wouldnt worry.

yes 3dmark06 does account for more cpu usage.

i have the same card with an amd s939 toledo core at 2.6ghz
and the x2 amd cpu,s outperform everything but the newer
core2 intels.

run a 3dmark05 and post your score.

i would like to see what it is. 8)

Yeah I would say the score is normal given you have a Pentium D.
Bungholio mark aint no big deal.

At 645 core / 1000 memory and 3.6C2D I get around 11k. I think the CPU importance is "over-rated" in 3D06.

3d mark 05 = 10226

For '05, I would have expected your score to be a bit higher. But like others have said, it's in-game performance that counts.

About the 05 score, I think that it would probably be higher if I turned off symantic and spyware remover. I forgot to do that before I ran it.


Marc

Stock e6600 and 8800 gts got me around 8500 in 3dmark06.

i get around 11 to 12000 with the 88gts 640mb.
also with the new 3dmark 05 that score is for just the vid card.

add your cpu score to it. mine was 12something with a cpu score of around 6000.

i was getting around 10000 with 68gt,s overall score.
the older one (or the last time i ran a 3d mark)05
it put both scores together.

i downloaded 3dmark05 last week to see how my new 8800
would do and it is completly different from the last one.

used to it would give a score, now i have to go on line
for a score. ?

e6600 @ 3.0GHz + 8800GTS w/640 @ stock + vista = 3DMark06 of 8661

Sounds like you're in the same ballpark as I am. I also was shown at the bottom of the pack of comparitive systems but the others are likely XP and many likely have used ntune to OC their video card.

in response to John P, I am using xp pro, not vista. Sorry for the confusion.

Marc

nope. I just figured that they both were effecting the cpu. I usually run around 3-4% on cpu when the comp is just on the desktop


Marc