New system with 3dMark 06 - not very good??

Those were CPU tests and those are supposed to run like that.

3900 in the 06 version look about right anyway.

You can improve by overclocking, but that's about it without upgrading.

But as long as games right fine, don't worry.

Thats pretty good I think. And a 7800GS isn't exactl a beast, I'd be happy with that score.

That does seem a little low ... I think my score was something like 6200. Been a while since I ran it though.

X2 3800 @ 2.7ghz
X1900 XTX 728/1648
2 Gigs OCZ Platinum.


Your CPU is better than mine, but mine is also heavily overclocked, as is my graphics card. I think at stock I still had 5700-5800 though.

But as the others said, it is only a synthetic benchmark. As long as your rig plays the games you want at the speeds/settings you want, it doesn't really matter.

Edit: After looking at your card online, 3900 looks fine for your system.

Little help........

Was playing Stalker shadow of Chernoble and started to get graphical glitches exactly the same as the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdNy5R58Qsw

So I updated my 84.25 forceware drivers (which I scored 3915 on 3dmark06) to the latest 94.24 drivers. I still get the glitch occasionally but I also ran 3dmark again and only got 3450!

Any thoughts?!

Cheers.