9800GTX+ SLI 3DMark06 Score

[fate0n3]

I recently picked up 2 EVGA 9800GTX+ cards to replace my aging 7900GTO's. With the 7900GTO's I use to run 89?? in 3DMark06. Now I am not expecting a big 25k run or anything but I am only scoring right around mid 10???. I don't know what is going on I did a fresh install of Vista Business 32-bit earlier thinking maybe something was up. Same performance, I have searched and there are people on the forum scoring a lot more with just a single card. I am wanting to know if anyone can give me additional info on what might be going on. I am not really thinking it is bottlenecking CPU or anything. Now it could be my m/b but I was told by EVGA that it wouldn't hurt my performance at all with these cards and my board. My PC specs are below-

Core 2 Duo E6600
EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1
Corsair TWIN2x2048-6400
2x EVGA 9800GTX+ 512mb SLI
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 RAID 0
Western Digital 160gig 7200RPM SATA
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme

The PC is stock clock. Thank you guys/gals for anything you can help or give input on this.

 

[doomsdaydave11]

ok, i'm assuming when you say "89" you mean 8900, and when you say 10 you mean "10000" (I would hope so...)

Test each card individually- not SLI mode, and see what you get. I'm suspecting either you got your SLI set up wrong or one of the cards is defective.

 

[fate0n3]

Yea I meant 8900's just can't remeber the round about numbers I got. I am getting 10105 out of this. I am going to try that in next few mins. How can I have SLI setup wrong? SLI is enabled and I have tried it with physics both on and off. Both the same. I will post back up with new results when I try seperate cards.

 

[JackBlack07]

The first thing I noticed is your running 2 PCI-E 2.0 cards on a 680i motherboard which is only PCI-E 1.0 at 16x speed. Your limiting the cards potential on your motherboard.

 

[fate0n3]

Well one of the cards was defective. With only one card in I score 10860. Which I still think is a little low but I keep working on it.
JackBlack07 you are correct that this board is only PCIE 1.0 but I talked to several different people including one at EVGA and I was told the same thing. If performance was affected it would only be by a few percent not a major bottle neck. I am looking at getting a new EVGA 780i board. I would get a 790 but I don't want to have to upgrade memory also to DDR3.