Wierd 3Dmark 05 results after overclocking

[MrCore64]

My system currently looks like this...

amd x2 4400@ 2.2
Sapphire Radeon X850 XT PE
MSI k8n neo 2 platinum
2gb dual ddr 400 geil value
200gb sata
80gb ide

I just got my X2 and the K8n, everything else was from my old PC. I noticed at first that my ram was only being detected as single channel ddr333 not dual channel ddr400, I decided to leave it and carry on anyway. After doin a fresh windows install with all the latest drivers I ran 3dmark 05 and scored 6400.

Then I installed SP2 and this time I got a score of 6200. I have heard about quite alot of people gettin lower scores with SP2 so I was'nt bothered but here is where it gets wierd...

I found out that one of my sticks of ram was in the wrong slot for dual channel. I moved the stick to the right slot and adjusted the bios settings so that it recognised it as ddr 400. Then I ran 3d mark and got a score of 5200!?

Wierd, but check this out.... I then overclocked my 4400@2.2 to a 4400@2.4. I set the HTT/FSB to 218 and the multiplyer to 11x and then ran 3d mark and got a score of .... 5200!? What's goin on!!??

Has anyone else had any wierd results like this? I know that with my specs i'm pretty sure I should be hittin over 6000 but I dont know why i'm not. Help!

 

[Furystrike]

that first score you got seems to be about dead on. The rig in my sig is pretty much gonna perform like yours in 3mark2005 and I get around 6500 @ stock 2.4ghz. Im not sure what you're gettin 5200 for, but you're right, you should be hitting higher by at least 1000.

 

[mlinz]

did you check your memory in the BIOS? could be messing up some settings. I just recently realized my old hyperX memory (first hyperX 512kit released) was running at insanely incorrect timings. After correcting the problem in the bios my memory bench score went up tons. Also my 3dmark scores increased about 800 marks.