e8400 ONLY 1600 3dmark06 score!!!

zolg

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i have e8400 cpu and my cpu score on 3dmark06 is only 1600 why it so low? And how can i fix it? Thanks.
 

sepayne21

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yeah, that's a pretty low score for that cpu... can you give us some more info such mobo, ram, psu, etc. Also, did you just upgrade your cpu from an old one without re-installing windows, or was this a new build with a fresh copy of windows.

open up task manager and have it on the bottom of your screen so when the cpu test is done you can see if both cores have been running durring the test at their max output. Both cores should be maxed out, or at least close to it.
 

zolg

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actualy now its 2800 i dont know what happened i tried 4 times and everytime same 2800. I think its pretty nice for that kind of cpu, right?
 

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Huh? My Q6600 @ 3.5ghz does about 5200. Your chip should clobber mine senseless at that speed. What ram are your using?
 
It's pretty slow - 2 2GB sticks of DDR2-800 OCed to 880. It might have been 5700-5800 now that I think about it - I'll have to check again next time I see him.
 

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You have to keep in mind that Kentsfield and Yorkfield are based on identical architectures. The die shrink provides lower temperatures, but no performance advantages in itself. The only 2 advantages of q9550 are larger cache and sse4.1, neither of which 3dmark cares for. All the reviews that shows Yorkfield being average 10% faster per clock are skewed by new video encoding programs that use sse4, which gives Yorkfield a large boost of 30%, sometimes even more.

Another thing is it's heavily dependent on your OS and amount of background load. My q6600 at 3.6ghz get a 4800, compared to your 5540. Vista Ultimate x64, with all kinds of crap running in the background, sucking up system resources. Take a look at the upper right corner of screenshot, nearly 1.5gb ram usage at idle. :na:
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yea, I have Vista U 64 in dual boot mode but have been extremely hesitant to make the big switchover just based on the idea that I will be losing performance because of its extra overhead. For now I just use it for testing and boot into good ole XP. I don't really have any program that needs Vista at this time.
 

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drr2 800 2gb ram. One more intresting thing. When its testing CPU test 1 or 2 i have only 0-2 FPS?! but total cpu score 2800 where is the problem?! and what score should has e8400?!
 

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Ah, that's normal. Each one of those little robots in the cpu test is driven by an AI, extremely multithreaded, it's supposed to be brutal. :D
 

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Ran it out of curiosity since I can force my multiplier to x6, then back to x8.

CPU Score:

3578 @ 2.4ghz
4529 @ 3.2ghz

Under Vista 64 Premium.
 

2800 is fine - you'd need a cray to run that test smoothly.
 

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