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Monco   02-08-2009 at 05:41:13 PM

Isn't this result very low, or is it all right?

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/9346/3dmarkui4.th.jpg

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3914/3dmark2jg3.th.jpg

Neither the CPU nor GPU are overclocked.

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meodowla   02-08-2009 at 06:11:23 PM
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Yes.. its very low.. I get better than this with a dual core..

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Monco   02-08-2009 at 06:14:37 PM
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Well, but what could be the problem then?

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The_Blood_Raven   02-08-2009 at 06:39:14 PM
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CPU, there is no way you should get a score that low!

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ohiou_grad_06   02-08-2009 at 07:00:38 PM
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That is pretty low, maybe try overclocking that cpu, I know my 3dmark score was in the 9000's with a lowly 5200 x2 and a 9600gt.

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cjl   02-08-2009 at 08:57:54 PM
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The score should be higher than that, even at bone stock settings. Also, a CPU score of 1600 seems quite a bit low. Have you checked with something like CPU-Z to make sure you're running at 2.4 GHz?

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Monco   02-09-2009 at 09:24:46 AM
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http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/2630/cpuzci0.jpg

 

Core speed is wrong?? Because it says 1600 Mhz as you can see...


Message edited by Monco on 02-09-2009 at 09:25:10 AM
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pr2thej   02-09-2009 at 12:50:17 PM
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Well that should be speedstep. Does the multiplier jump up under load?

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blashyrkh   02-09-2009 at 01:03:07 PM
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Dude are you serious?? You have a 2.4Ghz proc basically. The four cores don't make much of a diff. On my system (a Pentium 5200 at 2.5Ghz) with a 4870 (which wipes the floor of the 8800) I get about 8200 score on 3Dmark06. It's normal because the card is heavily bottlenecked. When I OC to 3,6Ghz, my score jumps to 14-14.5K which is fine (no OC on card or system memory). Try OCing a bit.

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Monco   02-09-2009 at 06:52:16 PM
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pr2thej wrote :

Well that should be speedstep. Does the multiplier jump up under load?



Yes, during games it jumps up to 2,4 Ghz.

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Dude are you serious?? You have a 2.4Ghz proc basically. The four cores don't make much of a diff. On my system (a Pentium 5200 at 2.5Ghz) with a 4870 (which wipes the floor of the 8800) I get about 8200 score on 3Dmark06. It's normal because the card is heavily bottlenecked. When I OC to 3,6Ghz, my score jumps to 14-14.5K which is fine (no OC on card or system memory). Try OCing a bit.



But what good is Q6600 worth then? Since what you're saying is that it won't beat a regular 2,4 Ghz CPU, so what is a Q6600 worth then?

Also, worth noting, during the CPU test I'm getting like 0 fps. That doesn't seem right?

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rescawen   02-09-2009 at 07:02:15 PM
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I have a problem too!

I have a phenom 9850 BE and a 3870x2 but only bout 14000 06 points :(

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DellUser1   02-09-2009 at 07:20:42 PM
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Monco wrote :

Yes, during games it jumps up to 2,4 Ghz.

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Dude are you serious?? You have a 2.4Ghz proc basically. The four cores don't make much of a diff. On my system (a Pentium 5200 at 2.5Ghz) with a 4870 (which wipes the floor of the 8800) I get about 8200 score on 3Dmark06. It's normal because the card is heavily bottlenecked. When I OC to 3,6Ghz, my score jumps to 14-14.5K which is fine (no OC on card or system memory). Try OCing a bit.



But what good is Q6600 worth then? Since what you're saying is that it won't beat a regular 2,4 Ghz CPU, so what is a Q6600 worth then?

Also, worth noting, during the CPU test I'm getting like 0 fps. That doesn't seem right?



The Quad is worth every bit when used for encoding and number crunching, and always outscores a dual core at the same speed.
Your cpu score should be in the 3800 range with stock clocks, which would increase your score substantially.
There's something other than just Speedstep causing it to be so low, seems like it not running the benchmark on all four cores.
0-1 on the cpu test is normal, once you start overclocking you'll see 1-2 fps.

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Monco   02-10-2009 at 04:05:16 PM
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DellUser1 wrote :


There's something other than just Speedstep causing it to be so low, seems like it not running the benchmark on all four cores.



However, if 3dMark is giving low results, does that mean that I will be experiencing worse performances in games?

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DellUser1   02-10-2009 at 04:56:29 PM
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If your cpu isn't performing the way it should you'll be experiencing worse performance somewhere.

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