3Dmark06 Help

[bloodlust22]

Could someone please help me. I just built a new computer, it's specs are:

Intel E6850 Duo Core 2 3.0 Ghz

Asus P5n32e-sli MB

4 GB Ram PC-6400

(2) Nvidia 8800 GTS (G92) 512MB in SLI

500 GB 7200RPM HD

Windows Vista 64

I ran and installed 3DMark06 and was only getting a average score of around 10000. I have another system that's about 2-1/2 years old that runs a AMD X2 4200+ and a Nvidia 7950 GTX 512MB card and it gets around 6000+. How in the world does my new system that's 4-5 times as powerful as my old system get such low benchmarks? I was figuring around 14000-15000 on my new system. Is there something wrong with it? or maybe it's Vista 64 causing the slow benchmarks? Please help......

 

[rallyimprezive]

Try running the nvidia beta drivers?

Are you sure SLI is working?

 

[purplerat]

Vista64 only cost me less then 1000 points. SP1 Beta made up about 700 of that. My system in my signature gets ~15000 with my video card OC'd. I'd say make sure you get every Vista update and the most recent drivers.

 

[bloodlust22]

I have every driver for Vista and all other components up to date as of yesterday. As far as SLI working correctly...I'm not sure. This is my first go with SLI. I do have everything set up according to the MB and the video card specs. Under device manager it shows both cards and that they are working properly. That was my first thought though, How do you tell if they are working right? I do know when I run a benchmark test it only shows one card and says nothing about SLI.

 

[bloodlust22]

Should I try installing XP on a seperate partition and running it that way to see if scores improve. I know Vista slows down gaming performance some, but I never would of thought this much...

 

[purplerat]

With all drivers and updates current Vista shouldn't slow down gaming at all on your system. Intsalling XP would only help in the same way re-installing Vista would if there were something incorrect with your initial setup. You should check that SLI is enabled, but you shoud be getting higher scores with just 1 card. For Windows updates, turn off automatic updates, then search for new updates and install. Vista does have this nasty habit of installing updates while you're doing other things and can drain performance. I just built my system last week and had a base score of 11000. That was before any updates or overclocking (CPU @ 2.4 stock).

 

[bloodlust22]

I do know SLI is enabled. I just looked in the Nvidia control panel and it's checked. I do have automatic updates on, I will turn those off. Currently there is no new Vista updates. Is there any other way to tell if both cards are rendering correctly? I'm thinking about taking a card out and seeing what kind of scores I'm getting. Maybe one of the cards are bad.

 

[purplerat]

have you run 3D Mark again? or tried any other benchmarking? download the Crysis demo and run the built in benchmarks.

 

[bloodlust22]

What other benchmarking tool would you recommend? I'm currently downloading Crysis demo and will run when I return back home. I will rerun the 3D test and post the link along with the Crysis benchmark score this evening. Thanks for all your help currently!!

 

[purplerat]

Try Sandra Lite:
http://www.sisoftware.net/index.html?dir=&location=downandbuy&langx=en&a=
it will give you more detail so you can see what area may be holding you back.

 

[bloodlust22]

Curious as too which one I should use the freeone or buy one from the link you provided?

 

[purplerat]

The free one should be sufficient.

 

[bloodlust22]

I set vista's visual effects from "Let Windows Decide" to " Best Performance" even though Vista now looks like Win 98 it did improve the scores by about 1000.

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=14&XLID=0&UID=13609752

Now I went and turned SLI off in the Nvidia control panel and re-ran the test.

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=14&XLID=0&UID=13609999


As you can see there is only a 900 point difference. I can't imagine a extra 8800 GTS 512 is only improving my performance by 900 points. I'm currently downloading the other program to test.

 

[purplerat]

I'm not really sure how much 3DMark utilizes SLI.

 

[systemlord]

Compared with my score your SM 2.0 score is low @ 4812, mine is 1000 points higher and your CPU score is also lower than mine @ 2059 when mine is again almost 1000 points higher. Are your PCI-Express slots both 16xslots? I am using Windows XP by the way, it might be Vista like purplerat said.

By systemlord at 2007-12-10

 

[purplerat]

Uh, actually I said it wasn't Vista. For me Vista only cost me less then 1000 points pre-SP1 beta and less then 300 after.

 

[purplerat]

I could see a second card only getting you 900 points, though I think your overall score is still low. When I went from one 7800GT to 2 7900GTs I only got 2300. How much was from SLI and how much from the difference in cards (7900 vs 7800) I'm not sure.

 

[bloodlust22]

Yea, they are both pci-express. When you look at the scores compared to other systems of the same setup they are at the bottom of the barrel. Does this SIS benchmark scan ever end......

 

[systemlord]

Sorry wrong motherboard.

 

[bloodlust22]

System Lord I appreciate the research. However, that's not my motherboard, I have a P5n32-e sli.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131073R

Which shows it to use 16x on sli.

 

[systemlord]

What powersupply do you have? The only thing I can think of is one or both of your cards might be clocking down do to not enough power. Maybe one of your cards is defective giving you a lower score, have you tried using both cards by themselfs to see if one card has a higher score than the other?

 

[joelleiva07]

i'd say its vista like the others say...

i have a E6750 and a 8800GTS 640mb and 4 gigs of ram and i got about 10.4k...

you have a better processor and SLI;you should have pwned me

 

[bloodlust22]

I installed XP on this machine and ran benchmark. My scores improved by about 1500 to 12400. I however did notice something odd, I downloaded CPUZ and seen that my CPU is only running at 2.33Ghz when it should be stock 3.0Ghz. I'm not sure what the stock settings should be but CPUZ has a mulitplier of x7 and a bus of 333mhz. Shouldn't this be a factory set mulitplier of x9 on these chips to achieve 3.0Ghz. Or is the CPU settings correct?

As far as power supply, I have a 1000watt ThermalTake. I have also tried both cards seperate. They seem to give about the same scores, one is about 500 off the other.

 

[systemlord]

I installed XP on this machine and ran benchmark. My scores improved by about 1500 to 12400. I however did notice something odd, I downloaded CPUZ and seen that my CPU is only running at 2.33Ghz when it should be stock 3.0Ghz. I'm not sure what the stock settings should be but CPUZ has a mulitplier of x7 and a bus of 333mhz. Shouldn't this be a factory set mulitplier of x9 on these chips to achieve 3.0Ghz. Or is the CPU settings correct?

As far as power supply, I have a 1000watt ThermalTake. I have also tried both cards seperate. They seem to give about the same scores, one is about 500 off the other.

"Intel's Speed Step Technology" is whats clocking down your processor to save power, but when you start playing games it will clock back up to 3GHz. You can turn it off by selecting Ratio CMOS setting to manual of to = 9x multiplier.