Is there something wrong with my Phenom X4 965?

[RockyRacoon]

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6176277

My 3dMark score here seems very strange to me. My graphics score is nearly 8000 but my Physics score is less than 1000. I'm experiencing fps of around 2-3 in the physics simulations. Does this mean there's something wrong with my chip?

 

[satyamdubey]

yes something is wrong. And I would start with suspecting whether the mobo you have supports your cpu. But that's just off the top of my head.
Share your specs mobo, psu and other hardware. and take CPU-z screen shot so we can see which stepping/revision your 965 is.

 

[satyamdubey]

Is this a recent cpu upgrade?

 

[saint19]

Just for curiosity. Do you have enable the saving power options in your BIOS? Because that 805MHz is the frequency of the CPU are very similar to the C1E and COll'n'Quite systems enable.

Check that in BIOS.

 

[RockyRacoon]

This is a new build. System specs:

AMD Phenon x4 965
GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3
8gb dual channel mushkin silverline memory
VTX-3D X-Edition HD7870
OCZ ZS 550W power supply
Windows 8

I do have cool n quiet enabled, but surely something like a 3dmark test would cause the clock speed to increase? I've read a few threads about 3dmark misreporting clock speeds, but thinking about it (800/3400)*4000 gives about the score I got, and apparently 4000 is around the score I should expect. Why would cool n quiet not allow the clock speed to increase?

 

[saint19]

3DMark11 is more GPU dependent, 3DMark detects the configuration and the beginning of the test when the CPU can be on idle since not load has been done. While the CPU don't detect enough load, will run at Cool'n'Quite speed...

Disable Cool'n'Quite, C1E and Turbo features and test again.

 

[satyamdubey]

Rocky can you post screen shots of a cpu-z read out?

 

[RockyRacoon]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24277552/cpuzscreenshot.jpg

Here it is! Thanks for the help everyone.

 

[saint19]

You have Cool'n'Quite enable...and C1E too probably.

 

[RockyRacoon]

I turned off Cool'n'Quiet and C1E and reran the benchmark. I got an identical score, only difference was it correctly reported the CPU clock speed as 3400mhz.

 

[saint19]

Please download wPrime in settings change it to 4 cores and run the 32M benchmark. We need to check if CPU has problems.

 

[RockyRacoon]

I ran wPrime 4 times with the instructed settings, I got scores between 12.575s and 12.790s, no errors. Does this indicate a problem?

 

[saint19]

Times are ok, so CPU is running at full speed at least in CPU calculations.

Do you have the Professional version of 3DMark11?

 

[RockyRacoon]

No I'm only running the Demo version downloaded from steam.

 

[saint19]

We need run each test individually, since the problems seems to be only with the test by self.

 

[RockyRacoon]

I don't think I can do that with the demo version.

 

[saint19]

Try this, run wPrime 1024M and after that run 3DMar11...

 

[RockyRacoon]

I did that. Got the same score again!

 

[satyamdubey]

how bout flasing the board with the latest BIOS?

 

[saint19]

Please update the BIOS to the latest version as satyamdubey says and download and run 3DMark 13 (latest version of 3DMark)