AMD X2 6000+ performance

Not sure if the performance is what it should be, I've never used 3DMark before, but to answer your question about 'Cool & Quiet' it's an automatic AMD protocol or something that lowers the clock speed and voltage of your processor when it's idling or doing simple tasks and not being stressed. So, theoretically, it shouldn't hurt your performance because once you start doing intensive things (like games), the CPU speed should automatically go back to normal.

thanks for the responses. I'm less concerned about my cpu performance and the C&C now. I guess the bottleneck in my machine is elsewhere.

Don't worry about getting 1 fps in the cpu test...every processor gets owned in that test...its setup to be extremely stressful on every cpu... Let us know what your final score was....

Install AMD Dual Core optimizer if you haven't already. You might actually get a bit better performance with some DDR2 800 Ram, Athlons are more sensitive to Ram speed than C2d is. C&Q won't have much effect on most of 3dmark06, only time you really need to disable it are when OCing. CPU score sounds about right for your cpu. Even on a quad core you rarely get above 2fps, if that. Now, when I was experimenting with the IMC on my Phenom 9600be, I was able to pull the CPU FPS to above 2 average, and on the second test could pull 3 or 4fps rarely. But I was also getting CPU scores of near or above 4000, at 2.6-2.7ghz and 2.4ghz on the IMC/L3.