Extremely Low 3dMark06 score.

ladiezlover

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Hey everyone, I was wondering if you guys could possibly give me a reason as to my my 3dMark06 score is so low? 6808?

Specs:

Windows Vista x64
AMD Phoenom X4 9600 Black edition @ 2.31ghz
Asus m2n32-SLI Deluxe
4gb Mushkin extreme performance
BFG geforce gtx 260 OC maxcore

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
 

ladiezlover

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I dont think thats the problem
 

col-p-todd

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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.
 

ladiezlover

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To tell you the truth I never ran it with my older card it was xfx g.f.9600gt i was running GTA IV with my old card and when i tried it with my new card, I didn't see any difference
 

sharken

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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
 

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3DMARK06 is very CPU intensive, my score is about 3k points lower than it should because i run a 4400 X2. Your GFX is fine here, your CPU is the limiting factor.

the good news is the CPU doesnt have much of an impact on game performance, the majority of games stress the Graphics card more than the CPU, few exceptions are things like Supreme Comander.
 
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.
 

boulard83

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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 ...
 

boulard83

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WOW ! i finally logged on ASUS france ! thanks god i speak french !

Your mobo have 2 pxie 16x slot .. well i dont think the PCI is an issue, you can still try the card on the BLACK slot just to test it.

Your RAM is running DUAL channel ?? be sure tu use 1 yellow and one black.

Edit i ; Refer to your user manual !
 

ladiezlover

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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.
 

boulard83

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All those post have 10-15% more speed than the OP have ... he run at 2.31ghz.

But the OP score is still very low for the speed.

@coozi, he posted a GPUZ screenshot.

Edit 1 : You tryed completely UNINSTALL gpu driver, and reinstall fresh ? Same with mobo ?

Reaching 3.0 with this X4 can still help ALOT.
 

radium69

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Holy moly, Have you checked for virusses or spyware? Might be your ram thats being an issue, try running with one stick (and swap them). I had one of my corsair xms failing and it was causing slowdowns.