Sapphire Radeon 4650 slow problem

It`s the P4.
3D Mark 06 is notorious for it`s use of the CPU to make up part of the score. Slow CPU=low score. Even systems with powerful GPUs` can see poor scores if the CPU is not too great.

Ah ok thanks. But how will that affect gaming? P4 a bottle neck? Will i see the same low result while playing example cod4 or farcry 2?

I think if you upgrade to at least a dual core cpu of some sort, you would see a good improvement across the board.

Even check newegg man. If you've got the socket 775 platform and are low on cash, I think they have a dual core celeron on there for like 50 bucks. May not be great, but some overclocking and it'd probably kill your P4.

I have a phenom 9600 BE @ stock with a 4650 512mb @ stock running windows vista ultimate 64 and 3dmark06 pro 1.1.0 with hotfix and getting an overall score of 4500 as well! Im not sure what to do either.

As I said, the P4 is going to hold that GPU back. If you had a better C2D, you could probably pass 8k. (or overclock the one you have.)

Not sure what the other guys problem is. It might be the low clock speed of the 9600. (that is only around 2GHz right?) Ram issue or improper settings should also be ruled out.