My 3DMark06 score

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kaiweiler

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Hey, I just upgraded to an 8800GT 512mb and ran 3dmark06
Wondering if my score is on par?

My system is as follows:
AM2 4400+ @ 2.96Ghz
Evga 8800GT 512mb
4gb DDR2 667 @ 844Mhz (422Mhz dual channel)
2x250Gb in Raid0

Scored 8115 3DMarks
SM2.0 score 3363
HDR/SM3.0 Score 4007
CPU score 1938

Test was run on 1280x1024, no AA, optimal filtering (default)
Is this score about right? Should I be getting higher?
In game performance is not quite was I was expecting...
 
is 1280x1024 the standard resolution now? (for 3dmark tests) been a whild since ive had there products on my machine.
 
That seems a little low. Should be about 9000-10000 I think. Heres my old score when I had my Opteron 165 dual core at 2.7 ghz w/ a GTX. Similar specs for the most part.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=623432

and yes, standard res in 3dmark06 is 1280x1024.

Do you have any settings forced in Nvidia control panel?
Vista or XP?
What are your rams timings?
your PSU?
have you defragged your HD recently?
Onboard sound or soundcard? which one?
Overclock or stock clock?
 
No forced settings in Nvidia panel
Windows Vista Ultimate 64bit
Ram timings are 18-6-6-6 (had to slacken a bit to hit 422Mhz from 333Mhz)
PSU is a Corsair HX520
HD's was defragged last night (scheduled once a week)
Onboard sound
CPU OC'd from 2.3Ghz to 2.96Ghz
GPU is stock speeds
 
You take an extra performance hit when using Vista. You take even more of a hit using vista 64. My score was in XP, and when using vista 32 you can add 1000 points and that will be your XP score. Vista 64 I think is 1200 points, so if you take your 8100, and add 1200 its like having a XP score of:

9400

Thats not horrible. Try overclocking your GT a bit and see if that helps bring your score up. also, check and make sure you dont have any programs in task manager eating up a bunch of CPU cycles or RAM.

Did you do a complete reinstall before you put the GT in, and or did you have another videocard prior?

Also, having a dedicated sound card will hurt frame rates in games. Its not a huge impact, but is usually like 3-8% depending. However, I dont think 3dmark06 does sound, so I dont know if that would effect its scores or not.

Other then that IM not sure man. It could be normal. my score was with a overclocked GTX, so a stock clocked 8800 GT on a AMD machine your score sounds about right. its definately not drastically off.

Lastly, remember 3dmark06 is just a SYNTHETIC benchmark. It doesnt account for real gameplay. I have read 100's of videocard reviews, and one thing Ive noticed recently, is that the card that scores the best in 3dmark06 usually is not the one that gets the most FPS in games. For example, the GTX when vs'ing the GTS 512 and GT 512. Those cards pull higher 3dmark06 scores, but the GTX wins game after game when it comes to FPS. Dont base all your apples off of 3dmark06 :)
 
Alright Xenozx, thanks :)
I deleted all my temp files, closed anti-virus, booted with only one monitor, cleaned up my registry.
This gave me a score of 8169, just slightly better.
I guess it's a decent score?
I'll try to OC the card a bit.
 
kaiweiler said:
Hey, I just upgraded to an 8800GT 512mb and ran 3dmark06
Wondering if my score is on par?

My system is as follows:
AM2 4400+ @ 2.96Ghz
Evga 8800GT 512mb
4gb DDR2 667 @ 844Mhz (422Mhz dual channel)
2x250Gb in Raid0

Scored 8115 3DMarks
SM2.0 score 3363
HDR/SM3.0 Score 4007
CPU score 1938

Test was run on 1280x1024, no AA, optimal filtering (default)
Is this score about right? Should I be getting higher?
In game performance is not quite was I was expecting...
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Your SM2.0 shader score is low but the SM3.0 and CPU score is about right. It's probably Vista. That setup you have should be about 9500 under XP.
 
Well I got my 3DMark score up to 8735 by getting a stable overclock on the 8800GT to 732/1830/1003. Temps hit a max of 57C.
 
kaiweiler said:
Well I got my 3DMark score up to 8735 by getting a stable overclock on the 8800GT to 732/1830/1003. Temps hit a max of 57C.
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Thats perfect for Vista and your hardware.
On XP, I was getting approx 9800 with my old A64 x2 @ 2.8GHz + clocked 8800GT.
 
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