PC Performance

[Retro_X]

Hi guys! This is my first time on this forum, so I hope this is the best place to post this.

I've got a lot of experience in PCs, I know certain things about hardware, but my knowledge is limited as it's not exactly my passion. (Though, I do have an A+ certificate, hehe) I've been kinda worried about my current setup:

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ @2.0ghz
Winfast Foxconn nForce 4
1gb (2x512mb) Kingston Ram in Dual Channel
XFX PV-T71G-UCE7 Geforce 7900GT 256MB
40gb Hard Drive (with windows)
120gb Hard Drive (games, music etc.)

I have a relatively clean system since I formatted not too long ago. I'm running WIndows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2.

My main problem is the overall performance of my PC. Games run overall fine and I'm pretty happy with it, but when I compare benchmarks with other PCs similar to mine. I did a benchmark in 3DMark06, though my graphics are pretty good, my CPU falls short very short.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=367959

I was wondering if it could be that it's being bottlenecked by the graphics card? Or could it be my motherboard. Mainly because I see a lot of other 3000+ CPUs do much better in CPU benchmarks, even ones that are at stock speeds.

I hope that made sense.

My CPU:

 

[PWMK2]

I wouldn't worry about it. It's DEFINITELY not bottlenecked by your 7900GT, believe me. While those are lower CPU benchmarks compared to similar systems (your 3000+ should be equivalent to my P4 and my score is 350 higher than yours), I would look to software problems. There's a good chance that there's something eating up your cycles. But otherwise, if your games are running well, I wouldn't worry about it. This IS 3dMark we're talking about here, after all. It's not the most scientific of benchmarks.

 

[Retro_X]

I wouldn't worry about it. It's DEFINITELY not bottlenecked by your 7900GT, believe me. While those are lower CPU benchmarks compared to similar systems (your 3000+ should be equivalent to my P4 and my score is 350 higher than yours), I would look to software problems. There's a good chance that there's something eating up your cycles. But otherwise, if your games are running well, I wouldn't worry about it. This IS 3dMark we're talking about here, after all. It's not the most scientific of benchmarks.

Thank you PWMK2.

I'm not that worried, but I just wanted to check if I'm not doing anything wrong.

 

[DeChache]

That should run about like my 3200+ since mine is at stock. You are about 200 points beneath me.

Also the P4s seems to do a little better my 3.4 with ht gets ~900(In Vista havent got a chance to try it in XP yet).

Like the above poster said check to make sure something is not eating your cpu cycles. I gain quite a few points when nothing is running.
BUT

I wouldnt put to much stock in 3D mark if your games run fine then thats all there is to worry about and overall you are beating my system(in sig) I get ~3400 in 06 and you got a better card so.

 

[CHECKUP]

IS YOUR MEMORY DDR400. IF IT IS TRY 10X MULTIPLIER AND FSB(HTT) AT 200. THE MEMORY MAY NOT PROCESS EFFICENTLY AT THE HIGHER FSB SPEED.