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This 3dmark03 score seem alright?

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arockoholic

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I recently purchased a PNY 6800GT for my computer (see sig) and have ran 3dmark03 (no aa/af and other things turned off in nvidia control panel) The score I got was about 9500, and about 10500 overclocked to 400/1100. My processor isnt overclocked btw. (My bios shows I can set the speed from 2083mhz to 2500mhz with ddr400 ram and I cant figure any other way to overclock it, its not a barton btw) I'd like to push about 10500 without overclocking my card.
 
Would also like to know other ways to help me get a higher score, I already have the most recent motherboard drivers btw.
 
"the problem is your cpu. Clock it to around 2.2ghz with a 200mhz fsb"

This is my problem, my fsb settings in bios are also greyed out, or I would OC it no problem.
 
arockoholic said:
"the problem is your cpu. Clock it to around 2.2ghz with a 200mhz fsb"

This is my problem, my fsb settings in bios are also greyed out, or I would OC it no problem.
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look for a manual control in the bios should ungrey them out
 
A manual control? I messed with alot of diff options and none seemed to ungrey them, what would the name of this option be?
 
Make sure you have the latest mobo bios and chipset drivers, that might give you a couple of hundred points. One of my buddies has a P4 2.4ghz (stock) and a 6800GT (370/1000), and he gets ~10300 in 3dmark03 if that helps
 
You'll need to run at 200mhz FSB, You'll never do that with pc2700 memory,however you may get near the 180mhz level.
 
Btw, for more accurate score, I just ran 3dmark03 again and with 400/1100 I can acheive 10605. This isnt a score I'm dissapointed with and I'm sure is accurate for my system. I would still like to figure how to OC this damned 2600 no barton. I read everywhere people OC'ing their bartons, but this 2600 is obviously different and my bios isnt letting me OC it (hence people buying bartons instead I guess). Asus.com is seeming to be down at the moment so I will try downloading their latest bios later. I havent updated mine in some time.
 
he has an Asus A7V8X-X which i got from another thread of his.

lol, it's not the chip that is greying out your settings (or the fact that it's not a barton), it's something with the motherboard

check the motherboard manual to see how to change your clock settings. There might be a jumper that you have to set in order to change it, or you're missing a bios option somewhere that allows you to change it.

if all else fails there's always ClockGen
 
3DMark2k3 isn't very CPU dependant. you may get a small boost from overclocking your CPU, but the largest gains will be from overclocking your video card.
 
felix88 said:
3DMark2k3 isn't very CPU dependant. you may get a small boost from overclocking your CPU, but the largest gains will be from overclocking your video card.
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he only gets 10.5k when running at ultra speeds, while I score almost 1k more at ULTRA speeds. Something in the system is severely bottlenecking him
 
also, make sure you close all running programs before benchmarking

plus, make sure you have the latest motherboard bios and chipset drivers.
 
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