3DMark06 Weird Problem

[AaronP]

Howdy,

I have this weird error going on on two seperate machines with different parts (except for motherboard and video cards) and in 3DMark06 on the Canyon test, it gets REALLY weird and it looks like it's lagging but it just keeps going. It doesn't happen till the "dragon" comes out of the water and the cannons start firing. It does the exact same thing on both systems and I have yet to find a solution. Anyone had similar problems? It doesn't do it with the Sound Card in, and sometimes with only 1 stick of memory, but other than that it's consistent. And I've replaced ALL of the parts two times so I know it has to be some weird error.

Video Cards: X1900XTX Crossfire with CAT 6.7 Drivers (Official)
Motherboard: ASUS A8R32-MVP with Latest BIOS.

 

[joemama]

Are you sure you aren't looking at the "cpu" tests? Whenever those are running it will "lag" even the Core 2 Duo extreme processor. If your overall score is in line with similar machines then don't worry about it.