Extremely slow Athlon64? Please help...

[DefBringer]

I have an Athlon 64 3000 at 205mhz bus speed and some Mushkin lvl 1 PC-3500 RAM at CAS 2. But look at this:

Not only that, but my 3DMark03 score went up only 400 points from my Athlon XP2100 even though I added newer faster HD, CPU, RAM, and mobo!

Does anybody have any idea what is wrong with my chip?

 

[DefBringer]

For what it is worth, this is on an Asus K8V Deluxe mobo....

 

[MTB2Live Live4Comps]

well that one is running at 820MHz :-D. you've got powernow turned on (aka Cool'N'Quiet)

 

[DefBringer]

Originally posted by MTB2Live,Live4Comps
well that one is running at 820MHz :-D. you've got powernow turned on (aka Cool'N'Quiet)

I saw that too....but why would Cool N Quiet be enabled during load??

 

[MTB2Live Live4Comps]

i'm not very familiar with Sandra benchmarks - it might have something to do with the time it takes Sandra to complete the benchmark and the sampling rate Cool'n'quiet uses to determine load (like, it might not react until there' steady load for X minutes).

 

[DefBringer]

Thanks for the help. My Sanda scores are much higher, but my 3dMark03 scores are exactly the same.

Very weird:

XP 2100
PC-3200 512mb cas 2.5
WD 7200rpm HD

= 4014 3dmarks

A64 3000
PC-3500 cas 2.0
WD 10,000rpm HD

= 4450 3dmarks

Guess it's a lot more videocard dependent than I thought...jeesh.

 

[Dojo | Warlord]

yea.. when its enabled:

In common conditions with the minimal CPU workload (0%-65%), the processor driver drops the Athlon 64 frequency from the nominal 2.0GHz down to 800MHz and 1.3v.

The CPU keeps working in this mode until its workload exceeds 70%-80%, it clocks up to 1.8GHz and 1.4v. Then at 80%-100% it clocks back to 2.0GHz and 1.5v

So, obviously Sandra dosen't exceed 70-80% CPU usage... =/