8800GT in SLI,3DMARK06 Score, does this seem kinda low?

So today I recieved my EVGA 8800GT's Superclocked 512mb (I bought 2 for SLI), and I ran 3DMark06 and only recieved a score of 6190, now granted that was at a resolution of 1900X1200. But doesn't that seem kinda low? Here are my system specs:

Dell XPS 600
Pentium D (3.2Ghz)
4gb of DDR2 5300 (667Mhz)
Dual EVGA 8800GT Superclocked 512mb in SLI
Sound Blaster X-FI audio Card
Windows XP Media Center 2005
Samsung DVD Burner
Sony DVD ROM
Stock Cooling, which isn't helping I am sure

Also I was running FRAPs while playing CoD4 with the setting's cranked all the way up on everything, and was only recieveing frame rates of 50 or so on average. I am a newb at all this, but I ask you does this sound normal? If not then did I get the wrong cards? Provide me with your email or tell me how to and I will attach the Excel Doc. that I saved my test results on, if that would help in understanding my issue better. Thanks.

I had Dual 7800GTX's in SLI, and all I did was uninstall the drivers and unplug the old cards and plug in the new the same way, and then install the new drivers, and off I went. Was that wrong? Oh and I have 650watt power supply.

Ive got a single 8800gt superclocked and get 13500. Hummmm maybe the cpu bottleneck but it still should be higher than that.

That is quite a low score even for a single 8800GT.Did you change any driver settings in the NVIDIA control panel???Did you try disabling all unecessary processes???I have that exact card and it just rocks for me.Goodluck.

Dahak

M2N32-SLI DELUXE WE
X2 5600+ STOCK (2.8GHZ)
2X1GIG DDR2 800 IN DC MODE
TOUGHPOWER 850WATT PSU
EVGA 8800GT SUPERCLOCKED
SMILIDON RAIDMAX GAMING CASE
ACER 22IN WS LCD 1680X1050
250GIG HD/320GIG HD
G5 GAMING MOUSE
LOGITECH Z-5500 5.1 SURROUND SYSTEM
500WATS CONTINUOUS,1000 PEAK
WIN XP MCE SP2
3DMARK05 15,686
3DMARK06 10,588

I got my dell xps 600 in january of 2006 and al I know is that it's a Pentium D 3.2Ghz. I have heard about older CPU's bottlenecking bon here before. I payed $500 bucks for these cards, and they are gonna go in my first system build in about 6 months but for tha and that, I will get my money back and wait it out, if my system is gonna hold it back. I want the performance now, and I want the higher res. that's what i paid for. What do you guys think? Running FRAPs on CoD4 I am averaging approx. 40-70 fps, is that good, with all settings at high?

See if you get better scores for each card seperately. Maybe one card is bad and screwing up SLI. Try each card seperate on default settings.

If I had to venture a guess, I would say it's the rest of your system bottlenecking. I have a single 88gt running at Superclock speeds and am pulling in well over twice your score. Personally I wouldn't be in too much of a hurry to return those cards, just bring the rest of your system up to speed.

Now try the other card..... I don't believe your system is gonna bottleneck it that bad.... make sure you try the test at everyone elses standard. 1280x1024

Here are my CPU scores:

CPU1 - Red Valley 0.515 FPS CPU Tests
CPU2 - Red Valley 0.807 FPS CPU Test

GT1 - Return To Proxycon 24.136 FPS SM2.0 Graphics Tests
GT2 - Firefly Forest 23.813 FPS SM2.0 Graphics Tests

Well I spoke to EVGA, and they to think that my system is bottlenecking, but they did say that my score might not be that bad, if I compared it to others running the same CPU, etc. I think tomorrow I will be sending them back to Newegg, I am going to wait and buy new cards after I build my new system. Thanks for everyones, input on this issue.

Thanks for the info. bro. I have been hearing more and more about my processor being a bottleneck. Looks I will be building my new pc even earlier than I expected. I was gonna return these cards to Newegg, but then I realized that they have stupid 15% restocking fee, and I paid well over $500 bucks including the shipping, so that's like $80 bucks I will lose out on so instead, I am going to start buying the case, power supply, and fans etc. until I can afford the rest. Hey I am planning on buying the EVGA 780i mobo, and a coolermaster 850 watt power supply, and getting a Q6600 processor, and 4gb of ram. I will be stuffing it all into a coolermaster stacker 832, with around 6 fans, and a zalman cnps9700 zalman cpu cooler. Does this sound like a good setup with these cards? I welcome your opinions. Thanks.

sorry, cruical I mean!! (unable to edit my post)

I would suggest one of the Yorkfields when they are released also I have the same case and a nice feature is the side fan door which I have the lower fan toward the front of the case blowing in and the lower fan toward the back blowing out. That setup keeps my 2 GT's nice and cool with very little noise.

Ok cool, but whats so good about the Yorkfields? I am only asking because I am a noob at this and have no idea why that would be good. Is it made better or something?

How about this one, for OC'ing? I have been reading that the Q660 can be OC'ed to 3.4 on air stable. This one is in my price range, is it gonna be good for OC'ing?

Q9450
2.66 GHz 95W 12MB $316

hi im new to this but i need some help, i have just bought another evga 8800 gts 640mb acs3 ko edition and ran 3dmark06 (Full version) with a single card i get 9724 but when i sli them i get 9089 thought thats abit strange. here is my rig

e6850 x2 3.0ghz
6gb adata ddr2 800 6400
evga 680i mobo
2x 8800gts ko sli
500gb hdd
coolmaster 650w psu

i thought with sli i should be pushing 12k
the sli is all setup ok

i know dont know what wrong. ive tried everything