My ATi Radeon 4870 3d Mark Results seem very low?

I recently upgraded my video card to the Ati 4870 and i think that my scores are very bad in 3d mark. Can someone put my mind at rest or is my CPU and Ram at bottleneck point. Ive tried bench marks on both 32 and 64bit versions of vista results are below;

Amd 6000 X2 6000
4gig Ram
Ati Radeon 4870
Windows Vista 64

1) Vista 64 - Ati Drivers 8.7 Graphics Quality - Quality

3D Mark 06 - Default Settings 9623
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3d Mark Vantage - Default P5461
CPU Score 3831
Graphics Score 6363

2) Vista 32 - Ati Drivers 8.6 Graphics Quality - Quality

3D Mark 06 - Default Settings 10326

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3d Mark Vantage - Default P5595
CPU Score 4140
Graphics Score 6338

you should change graphics quality to use application settings instead of quality in CCC, i think thats why you get low score. i get about 7500 with my hd 4870 @ 790/1100 and a e6600 @ 3.5ghz, and maybe i could even get more if i had a pci-e 2.0 compatible motherboard but i have only pci-e 16x.....

check your bois. You probably have settings incorrect in there - for example I found in mine cpu <-> mcp55 HT Speed was set to 1x - I changed it to 5x and it improved my fps. There are many settings in the bois which are sometimes set incorrectly by default.

Also, maybe your bois needs to be updated.

Alot of performance can be lost or gained by the settings in the bois.

Your scores do seem quite low. I have a Phenom 9850 BE Oc'd to 2.9 with 4gigs of kingston hyper x memory along with 2 hd3870's in crossfire. Hard drives are two WD raptors. one 150 gig and one 75 gig. I consistently get 15k or above in 3dmark06. Your 4870 alone is more powerful than those 2 cards in crossfire, so i would start investigating your system to find the culprit.
BTW. I do keep the cards Oc'd at 830 core 1170 mem. this does help quite a bit.

Your scores are definately low, i had to RMA my first 4870 because it was only running x1. I figured that out by putting my old 8800 gts in the mb and it ran @ x16. RMA'd, got new card and evthing runs great. 3d mark 06 is 16241 with one card overclocked to 780 / 1090

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You can see how many lanes your card is running on by using gpu-z or cpu-z

Hope that helps

The CPU is to small, intels core 2 duo is a far better processor
My past system was a amd x2 4800 2.4 ghz and i upgraded to a q6600 and my frames went throught the roof.
My system was 4800 x2, 8800 gts 320mb, 2 gbs ddr ram
3dmark06 8,000 pts
My new system q6600, 8800 gts 320mb, 2gbs ddr2 ram
3dmark06 12,000 pts

CSC,farcry,oblivion, cod2,crysis,coh all seen monster frame rate increases (30-100) frames depending on the game and medium to max detail at 1680X1050 resolution

both cpus were at stock clocks

^+1

amd's 2 cores are blow out of the water by intel's core 2 duos

New Benchmarks i did in vista 64 give better results witht he balanced setting but still not great;


3D mark 06 - Default - Balanced 11280

3d Mark Vantage - Default P6518 - Balanced
CPU Score 4483
Graphics Score 7681

I was a bit disapointed in the way Crysis's performance didnt seem to be as much better as i had hoped but i can live with it i have to really cant afford an upgrade atm maybe in a few months.

Thanks for all your help folks.