Crappy 3DMark06 Score?

[LucasG]

My current computer

Case: Cooler Master RC-690-KKN1-GP
Power Supply: XCLIO Goodpower 500W ATX
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz @ 3.2GHz
Memory: G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) DDR2 800
Video Card: EVGA GeForce 8800GTS 640MB GDDR3 @ 580MHz/850MHz
Sound Card: SoundBlaster Audigy 2 ZS
Hard Drive: Western Digital 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s
Monitor: 19" ViewSonic VA912b LCD

3DMark06 Score: 9868
http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=14&XLID=0&UID=11840746

Is that a good score? How come I see PCs similar to me with 15000+ score. I also am from like similar systems as mine with same CPU/GPU in like 280 place, how come?

Thanks & Regards

 

[E4g1e]

First off, do you have any start-up programs (e.g. antivirus scanners, network monitors, etc.) running in the background? Those programs could adversely impact your 3DMark scores.

Second, you may have the mipmap quality settings turned up to maximum quality, your graphics driver's V-Sync forced on, and/or you have the anisotropic filtering and/or antialiasing settings set to anything besides Application Preference (the setting required to run 3DMark).

 

[LucasG]

First off, do you have any start-up programs (e.g. antivirus scanners, network monitors, etc.) running in the background? Those programs could adversely impact your 3DMark scores.

Second, you may have the mipmap quality settings turned up to maximum quality, your graphics driver's V-Sync forced on, and/or you have the anisotropic filtering and/or antialiasing settings set to anything besides Application Preference (the setting required to run 3DMark).

The only thing I have on is an FTP server. All nvidia control panel options are default. What comes when you install your drivers, so there is no v-sync, no maximum quality, and its on application preference.

 

[E4g1e]

The only thing I have on is an FTP server. All nvidia control panel options are default. What comes when you install your drivers, so there is no v-sync, no maximum quality, and its on application preference.

The default is "Quality." Two other settings besides "High Quality" and "Quality" are "Performance" and "High Performance."

In addition, the FTP server could have eaten up a lot of your system's resources. The 3DMark scores are valid only if the computer is not connected to a network at all. (The FTP server counts as a networking program.)

Also, many of the higher-scoring users have overclocked their GPUs and graphics memory, not just their CPUs or system memory.

 

[CpuMan]

My current computer
3DMark06 Score: 9868
http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=14&XLID=0&UID=11840746

Is that a good score? How come I see PCs similar to me with 15000+ score. I also am from like similar systems as mine with same CPU/GPU in like 280 place, how come?

Thanks & Regards

Take a look at what there 8800GTS are running at? They are probably running there 8800GTS's overclocked. The one's that are running stock like yours are around the same score as you.

 

[LucasG]

The default is "Quality." Two other settings besides "High Quality" and "Quality" are "Performance" and "High Performance."

In addition, the FTP server could have eaten up a lot of your system's resources. The 3DMark scores are valid only if the computer is not connected to a network at all. (The FTP server counts as a networking program.)

Also, many of the higher-scoring users have overclocked their GPUs and graphics memory, not just their CPUs or system memory.

Incorrect. The default is "Let the 3D application decide".

I'll try without the FTP server, it doesn't take almost anything though in any way.

My CPU and GPU are both overclocked if you see the specs I posted (also my sig), my RAM is not.

Take a look at what there 8800GTS are running at? They are probably running there 8800GTS's overclocked. The one's that are running stock like yours are around the same score as you.

If you look at my post and sig you will notice my GTS is overclocked.

 

[CpuMan]

Oh, I was going by what was in the link you posted. It says you were running your gpu stock.

Then it does seem a little bit low. It's hard to say. If futurmark is not reporting your specs correctly then it might not be reporting others correctly either. Meaning the other folks with higher scores then you may have heavily overclocked CPU's and GPU's.

If it makes you feel better, my rig in my sig only gets a 3DMark06 score of 3630. But I am only running a 7600GT.

 

[LucasG]

Tried closing FTP server and even internet connection. Same score.

Well, I wonder why would it report default clocks. I'm going to check into that.

 

[E4g1e]

Incorrect. The default is "Let the 3D application decide".

This is based on the settings used in the NVIDIA control panel. However, the program itself does use up some of the computer's bandwidth; in fact, with my previous AMD rig, I got slightly lower 3DMark06 scores with the NVIDIA control panel set at "Let the 3D application decide" (as it would have been normally) than if I overrode the control panel by using the option "Use the advanced 3D image settings." And within the advanced settings, you'll find that the mipmap texture quality setting is set to "Quality" by default; the other choices are "High Quality," "Performance" and "High Performance."

...my rig in my sig only gets a 3DMark06 score of 3630. But I am only running a 7600GT.

The rig in my sig got only a 4068 in 3DMark06 -- but this was with a 7800GT with all-stock clocks.