8800GT low score

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Just received my 8800GT and score about 10K points in 2006

E6600 @ stock
P965
4GB PC2-6400
8800GT OC 650/1900

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=3980275

My friend has:

E6850 @ stock
P35
4GB PC2-6400
8800GT OC 650/1900 (same card as mine)

His score is 11674

Does 600Mhz and 1333 FSB really deliver that much :confused: OR is my score way off?
 
So in essence your score is perfectly in accordance with what he's getting on his. Now if you were to go from 2.4 to say... 3.6 like some people are getting on 680i's and P35's then you should see a significant jump in your score.:D
 
Don't forget that the cpu score is directly added to your overall score in 3dmark 2006. Yes, 600mhz and 1300 fsb will make a difference.
 
Yes you are stacking several factors that will throw the score that far in his favor.

1) your cpu is E6600
bus: 1066
Ghz: 2.4

his cpu: E6850
bus: 1333
Ghz: 3.0

2) Your mb: P965 chipset
his mb: P35 chipset (very slightly better)

3Dmark puts a lot of weight on the CPU performance. I have a Q6600, and with a moderate overclock of that and my 8800GT I broke 14000 in 3dmark. My video card is not 40% faster than yours obviously. It's the weighting of the CPU in the benchmark.
 
As long as my score is where it should be I'm a happy camper :D

Great card this 8800GT now all I need is another HSF for it. My ears are bleeding!
 
You are running a CPU at 2.4GHz that can do 2.8+GHz with the stock cooler and 3.2GHz with anything decent and you are concerned about your vid card score ?

Come up to the Motherboard forum, Intel sub forum, and unleash that beast.
 
Sorry I meant to say 1500 points

His was 11447 and mine was about 10000

I however just tried OC'ing my E6600 to 9x333 and got a score of 11245. The last 200 points are probably due to his CAS4 memory and P35 chipset?

I had no idea that SM 2.0 and 3.0 was also related to the CPU. I'm such a n00b when it comes to these things :rolleyes:
 
Yep you've got it pretty much exactly right.

Now you know!

And now you also have experienced for yourself why 3dmark06 is so widely criticised. Some people support it as a real world test, while others slam it for putting too much weight on the CPU and not enough on the video.

I think it's a good synthetic benchmark, but I do wonder at the cpu weighting. I mean, how many games will my Q6600 actually give a 40% performance improvement over your E6600? Especially at high resolutions? Not many. Not any? But it's still a valid test when you do multiple video cards on the same hardware.
 
Advil said:
And now you also have experienced for yourself why 3dmark06 is so widely criticised. Some people support it as a real world test, while others slam it for putting too much weight on the CPU and not enough on the video
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And some again are against useless numbers that means nothing for real world gaming preformance ;)
 
I got 11,245 with ForceWare 169.04 and my eVGA 8800GTS 320MB OC @ 684/1620/1053 on stock clocked E6750 a couple of weeks ago.
http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=14&XLID=0&UID=12011481

This weekend I went ahead and OC'd the CPU to 3.2GHz, FSB 400MHz. With ForceWare 169.09 I hit 11,880. I believe my OC on the GPU was a little lower, something like 680/1620/1020. (When I go home I'll find the FutureMark link with the specific details)

At stock E6750 and 8800GTS OC, I hit mid 10,500s.
 
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