Low 2D scores

[BlackSunshine]

I have an Intel D975XBX "BadAxe" board with Geil DDR2-667 Memory. The board was originally housing an Intel D950, and it is currently being fed by an OCZ GameXstream 700W P/S. It was not overclocked or anything yet, and the chipset drivers and all other drivers are current.

I had an EVGA 7900 GT card in slot 1. When I ran PCMark05 (I know, synthetic benchmarks...), everything looked good, except for my "transparent windows" score. It was ~400. Thinking the card might be bad, I switched it to my A8N32X with an Opty 170, where it promptly returned a score of ~1100. I then put it back in the Intel rig, and it was still at 400-ish.

Yesterday I got an ATI X1900XT and put that in the Intel box...score was better: ~800, but it is still too low for that card. I also switched my processor with my new E6600 (yay!), but the transparent windows score remained the same.

So. Am I being neurotic over a synthetic benchmark? Or is there something I'm missing?

Thanks in advance!

 

[chinesepiratefood]

run some 3DMark(05, 06)

 

[BlackSunshine]

Ok...3DMark06 with the D950 and the 7900 GT. I haven't run it yet with the E6600 and the X1900XT...

3DMark Score 5017 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 2095 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 2093 Marks
CPU Score 1623 Marks

 

[Zoogle]

I don't think 2D video card scores really matter as much anymore. Unless you notice something terribly wrong when on a 2D desktop, I wouldn't bother worrying about it too much.

 

[BlackSunshine]

Thanks...that's what I figured. I just get manic when everything is performing perfectly and one little thing is off.