Need urgent help! low 3dmark06 score with 8800GT

It is contingent upon a few things, not merely your graphics card. I had seen somthing around those lines but that was with a high end intel quad which would boost your 3dmark06 cpu score quite a bit higher. I think that will account for some of the difference. Plus you also, at least according to your tag, are running your core 2 at stock 2.4 ghz which seriously hinders the performance. Need to pump that up a little dood

If you want a comparison here is what I scored when I ran it today on the new system I finished building. I've not touched anything away from the stock settings or factory OC

AMD 5200 x2
2gig pc6400
evga superclocked 8800GT

3DMark Score 9531 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 4334 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 4787 Marks
CPU Score 1976 Marks

Ya All the reviews you saw were probably overclocked. My e2180 at 3.3 scores 2770 for the cpu score and it cost me $89. Cant wait to get a Evga superclocked 8800GT.

If you really have a low score, it's to do with the PSU. For some weird reason, some 8800gt or PSU aren't communcating properly and distributing enough power to the card. If you have another PSU lying around, give that a try.

Im getting ~12.2k in 3dmark06 with my rig (see sig)....

As I have said in every other thread like this... 3dmark is a BENCHMARK! Go play games.... stop worrying about it. If your games run fine, your benchmark score means nothing. Sure, if your games are running at 20fps when everything is turned to low, maybe you have a problem.... but if you run fine inside of games, does it really matter what your benchmark score is?

res and aa on high i meant, sorry

Nearly the same specs ?
A Q6600 with a 30% oc is far from nearly the same as a stock E6600.
"red valley" is a cpu test, the low fps there is normal.
Does anybody remember how to post the link for thier score? It can be helpful when trying to determine why score's are low.
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3608989

Even though 3DMark is benchmarking it can help you identify if you have your system set up properly. Driver conflicts and congested or conflicts in the registry and background programs tying up available resources do affect performance and reflect in subpar scores.

I had the same problem with a friends computer I recently made. The first time I ran teh test he got 12500 then all of the sudden it was 8000-9000. I upped the fan speed from the default 29% to 55% and that solved the problem. Seems that the card was getting to hot and was under performing.

Computer Specs
E6850
Asus Maximus Formula
2 gigs ddr2 800
50 gig hd
Evga 8800 GT Superclocked

Dear God I really gotta figure out what my problem is... you think you've got it back. I score 6000 points with 3dMark06 with my rig (see sig)

Weird thing is with my 7950GT I almost got the same score, just a little lower. But before I switched over to my 8800GTS (G92) my scores dropped by 22% for some reason then when I put in this card my score was only 6000, really should be ALOT higher... I know it's a setting somewhere, bloody vista!.. That or maybe the PSU problem someone mentioned above. However I have a 600W powersupply which isn't all powerful anymore but should be able to handle this load. Then again I have 8 HDDs on a RAID controller now which eats up alot of power.

Ugh driving me crazy!

O dear that is bad.... with OC'ing mine reaches 14k 3dmark06 no prob.

Btw a word of warning these cards die if you use them at 2ghz memory for too much time.

There is a lovely BIOS voltmod you can do which can increase your max overclocks on core for example by 40mhz same with shaders.

guys i bought my 8800 (g92) 512 today got a 3dmark 06 of 11001 stock settings i am stoked

3DMark06 basic edition
3DMark Score 10070 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 4752 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 5038 Marks
CPU Score 2010 Marks
E6600 2.4 no OC, 800 speed Gskill 2gb
EVGA 8800gt 512mb 650 speed 'factory OC' only
gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R
This board/cpu/mem OC's to 320FSB (about 2.9ghz)
with 950 mem without trying. Will go much higher if
i reduce multiplier had it to almost 500 (memory hits wall)
qpack2 case and PS

hey, ive been getting the same problem as you, and its not limited to 3d mark. What chipset does your motherboard use? - i think the problem is crappy driver support for anything that isnt the newish motherboards. Im also very sure the crap scores arent due to PSU issues, ive tried swapping mine out with no differance.

btw, when you next run 3dmark can you tell me whats displayed about your card? mine was telling me it has no clock speed.

Oh and using the Nforce 590SLI (AMD) chipset

I think I will be getting an EVGA 8800GT at the beginning of the year. I will post my new scores then, maybe that will be helpful.

So what's different between your setup and mine? Because I should be scoring right up there with you...

Xp or Vista?

ok i just checked it out, it was already disabled, but for the hell of it i switched it to auto, no differance. Are you sure having it as disables was what fixed it for XP? What drivers were you using when you tried this?

right on, il check that out now - il get back to you soon...

Hmm what do we have so far?

Not PSU ( I can confirm that as well took out my raid and the 8 drives to go with it and used my PSU tester on every hookup you can think of.)

Not memory

Not Video card since I have gotten the 10500 score before

In fact I'm pretty sure it's not hard ware at all since I've gotten the 10500 before.

Not Vista or XP

Not drivers atleast not the last 3 that have come out or betas

I'm pretty sure I've tried every dang setting you can possibly imagine in the control panel as far as aa/af/and all the rest that are in there.

All I can think of is some wierd setting inside the OS.

SO LOST it's silly lol

mmm this is fairly ridiculous hahah, im gunna try out what you said and if it doesnt work just deal with poor performance until NVIDIA decides to bring out a fix....

You should also be aware that alot of reviews are using a QX9*** so that's got alot to do with it too.

Ahhhhhh still no improvement, what BIOS version are you using? and what revision of the boards drivers? (in darth vader voice) Without this information, my plans to have this station fully operational may be jeopardized.

its 16 out of 16. If it was only 1/16 it would be alot worse than it is. Im not using Vista, but yeah, i swapped the card out onto a nforce 550 board i just put together for a friend - same deal, low performance in all games, and the clock speed isnt recognised in 3dmark. I think the most plausible conclusion is that its a driver issue for nforce 5 boards. It would explain the card working (about as well as a 7600), but not working to the capacity its specified for. Hopefully theres some kind of tweak we could use, rather than wait until nvidia get around to a definate fix - maverick seemed to be getting it going OK in XP before...