Concerning about my video card

My video card is the foxconn 8800gts 640mb, I just did a test with 3dmark05 and here's the score. (14,295)
http://service.futuremark.com/orb/ [...] ID=9985793
and here's an image of the setup
http://s16.photobucket.com/albums/ [...] chmark.jpg
its basically the same setting as one on this site, here's the link
http://images.tomshardware.com/200 [...] age002.png

I want to know, is it normal for it to be missing 1,574 points?

Also, I'm getting only 60fps on Counter Strike Source when I'm on 1280 x 1024 resolution and everything else set to max.

I just want to know, is my card normal or its just messed up?

I'm also wondering what FPS do you guys get on Counter Strike Source with a similar rig like mine?

I see, that might be the problem, I'll check up on that later.

I just did a test with AA AF enabled and while comparing to tomshardware's benchmarks, I have a 2684 point difference, now thats scaring me.

here's my result(11737):

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/ [...] ID=9990804

and here's tomshardware's(14431):

http://images.tomshardware.com/200 [...] age003.png



for those who are interested, here's the link to the whole benchmark review at toms:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/0 [...] index.html

my memory is in dual channel mode. For my motherboard, its require to have it in the first and second or third and fourth.

The report says the sticks are in slot 3 and 4....? That would not enable dual channel, is the report wrong?

Actually its quite interesting, he might be right. The manual for his motherboard suggests that you should use 1&2 or 3&4 for to achieve dual channel operation!

MNX1024 is your motherboard a gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5?

A memory bandwidth benchmark might be slightly more definitive.

Answer. Yes it is normal to miss that much performance when you compare different systems.

You have to remember that 3Dmark is not a purely graphics benchmark and you are comparing the overall system for what i believe is a different processor. The toms hardware benchmark uses an Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 where as you have a AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ according to the 3D mark analysis.

Benchmark results for systems with even the slightest difference will start to vary.

no no , thats fine

its 900mhz DDR (double data rate), which works out at 1800mhz effective (you just double it).

Yes, he is right - the memory speed on your GPU is fine.

As mentioned before, I think the cause of the disparity in 3dMark06 scores lies in the CPU used; feel free to compare the different CPUs here: http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu. [...] &chart=173