Low Furmark score?

[GMcDougal]

only got 3483 with a 4890 at stock speeds...ran it at 1280x1024...all aa and af off. here are my system specs. anyone know why it might be so low?

windows xp pro 32 bit

athlon 7750 be

4 gigs 1066 g skill ram

xfx 4890 at 850 core/ 975 memory

 

[MrLonghair]

Because furmark is just a benchmark. Do your games work well?

 

[GMcDougal]

cod 4 and americas army 3 both run very smooth at 1680x1050 res with everything turned to max. maybe i just put too much thought into benchmarks....

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Does it really matter how furmark, or indeed, any other benchmark runs, as long as your games run smoothly and look good at the res that you play them at?

 

[Nihilanth99]

As far as I remember, Catalyst gimps the card when Furmark is running to prevent it from incurring the board's overcurrent protection.