New system LOW 3dmark scores

What setting are you using in 3DMark? Are you using the New ATI Driver 8.7? Are you running XP or Vista?

In CCC set 3D options to performance. If you run 3DMark with AA/AF then the score will be lower.

Dont base all your performance on 3DMark. I have the 4850 and stock was in the 13s, overclocked to 700/2200(1100) I got 15135.

Enable overdrive in CCC and let CCC find the max overclock. Then run 3DMark.

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im using vista, 8.7, all normal settings for 3d, max eye candy in CCC ( prally why its lower)

well i turned all the CCC stuff to preformance and i got a 14875...

this seems like crap!!!

im pissed

Vista will knock off about 1K if not more. Load XP and you'll see that you're closer to 17K like you wanted.

You may want to pickup Vantage and see how that works out.

compare fps in games with systems with similar parts.

Driver updates? Throttling? high 15000 is pretty insane.

Driver Updates and check BIOS settings RAM Timings are sometimes better entered manually if you know them.
Direct X updates?
There are Vista Tweaks that can give you a little more speed by disabling some of the graphical parts in vista.
And BIOS updates, but if all else fails, sell it and build a SLI Machine.. LOL

I just started a thread a second ago, I have a fairly similar build, slightly faster ram and an stock 9450 (2.66ghz)(I will overclock in the next couple of days) and i got a score of 13955, if i oc'd my cpu to around 3.3-3.4 i would expect pretty similar results to u. i dont take too much into them, as flyin15sec vista can effect it etc.

You could be on to something there.

I might take my 48790 back and get 2 4850's

i set my ram timeings but i under volted them so they may not be working right.

WHY is it then when i have full eyecandy on i get a higher scores than when i tunrd every thing down?!