Extremely Low 3dMark06 score.

Driver conflict or your card is running 1x or 4x instead of 16x.

i think it's your cpu since it is an older phenom with the bug, if i,m not mistaking when using that cpu with the bug patch it will reduce the 3dmark06 quite a bit.

then i,m not sure if it is the cpu, from what i recall the score was low when having the patch installed. :s

i doubt it, what was your score with your old gpu? and what type was that?

Try to download the latest Nvidia driver first of all, tweak settings accordingly, check temps on graphics card idle and full load, could be a software bug, could be the AMD bottlenecking wouldnt be surprised, think it says that on all new cpu packages "guaranteed to Bottleneck or your money back!" j/k

put your old card back in and run it as a comparison.

and get a phenom II. lol.

Really, i think it is your cpu.

There is something wrong, somewhere. I benchmark 8900 in 3D Mark 06 with a socket 939 4600x2 and an 8800GTS OC 512, at stock speed (2.4ghz). If I clock the CPU to to 3.0, and the 8800 to 775 core, I hit a little over 10,000.

Ignore the posts about your CPU sucking, blah, blah. (although you do have a problem, perhaps the CPU is not running at full speed?) It ain't a screamer by todays standards, but it should be benching higher than what you are getting.But, for what it is worth, benchmarks are not everything. How does it do in the games you run? That is what is most important.

i also think you cpu is not that bad, 2.31ghz is a bit low, but not that much. You can still try to OC it. reaching 2.8 - 3.0 would be nice. but its a driver or PCIE not 16x issue.

P.S. Asus is the worst web site in the WORLD ! im try for 20 min to log on and nothing .. GLOBAL .. CANADA ... nothing ...

Thanks all of you guys. I appreciate the ppl with sensible imputs. All my drivers are up to date. Honestly I don't see a difference in the games in comparision to my older card (xfx 9600gt) The cpu I have is quad-core @2.31ghz. How would i possibly know if the cpu is not running at full speed? My ram is running dual channel. I'm starting to think is the pci-e slot. I'm going to try the secondary slot and see what happens

@ladiezlover; Download and run GPUZ which will tell you a lot about your card and CPUZ which will tell you about you MB/CPU/RAM.
With both running, run 3Dmark and check the speed graphs at the end of the run, you should see large speed changes in both CPU and GPU graphs.
3DMark 06 IS hard on the CPU, and your scores and game performance should be much better with the faster card.

Thats with an overclocked q6600 and 8800GTS 512 , so there is deffinetely something wrong.

ok now you CAN worry, i decided to test my system after this thread and got...8720.

That CPU score is really low. My E6750@ 3.7Ghz gets around 3200 3DMarks. Your low CPU score can have an effect on the low GPU score as well.

hmm. This almost has to be a driver issue.

My old Phenom 9500 with CF 3870's did 8800 with x8/x8 lanes, and with a new mb did 11,300 with x16/x16 lanes.

While I can see CF 3870's out performing a 260 in 3dmark, not by that much, and not if you have one card on a x16 lane...