8800gt Scores low on 3DMARK 06 test

What are your scores in the individual benchs?

You could always oc the proc

Overclock your CPU.

yes over clock the cpu... but 3dmark scores aare mainly uncomparable between systems... vantage did a better job of limiting the gap between same system scores... but now with physx its even more pointless...

all in all 3dmark is just a bragging tool... it doesn't test anything anymore... my 8800 gts 640 gets 12 k in 3dmark so what? the gts 512 gets 15 k.... so what... the difference between the cards isn't 25%

I believe 3dmarks should not matter and should not be tested in reviews... but w/e if you think some pointless synthetic benchmark that doesn't translate into actual game performance... thats up to you

Thats not that bad? I was thinking much worse just reading the title.

@OP, overclock your CPU and you will get up to 11000ish.

ok thanks everyone

but can someone tell me any good CPU overclock guides out there

i really dont want to srew ma comp up with some messed up guide

thanks
AND OSMD what guide did u use in particular?

I read a lot before i started but u need to tell me what motherboard and memory spped u have mine's 4 example is a g31 with a 800 mhz ddr2 corsair xms2 memory ... in the bios if u own a gigabyte press in the main menu shift + F1 and go to advance options and set the memory in 266 mhz (bec ause once u increase th front side bus ...FSB... the memory speeds will go higher as well ...so dont overclok right away get low bus speed first in the memory ... set the video card bus seed at 100 Mhz not let it set in auto ... then try times in the memory like 555-18 the other banks leave it in auto .. u can set auto in the fist times as well if ur motherboard allows u to do that ...mines does....

Then u can star setting the FSB increase fist the FSB up to 300 and u will also notice that the memory speed have increase as well then increase the CPU voltage usually is set 1.30 or lower increase it at 1.40 (mines 1.48 because in the windows the Cpu is undervoltage by 0.4 at 1.44 but super estable no more no less in my case = Tool CPU-Z will give u all the info u need and is free just google it ) .... i prefer to change the multiplier to 9 instead 10 by default because is more estable ... now 300 * 9 = 2700 from 2000 no bad ... reboot and wait until the motherboard comes back take a 10 seconds or less ...(if fails doing it u will here a double boot = that means all settings havent pass ) if is good just increase the FSB up to 333 * 9 = 2997 GHz i prefer dont go further if u dont have a motherboard northbridge fan ... the passive one will be go like 1332 MHZ any further buy a fan for better cooling solution ...