3dmark05 Score LOW!

[DynamicDude]

Hello, fellow oc members, i wonder if this is my actuall score becouse a guy called AthlonMan told me that i should score around 7200 points with my X1800xl and i wonder why i dont get that high score.

Catalsyt Drivers 5.11 i got better score then with the 6.1....


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[batboy]

You have not given us any system info or mentioned what vid settings you are using or if you are overclocking the card. Actually, your score is about what I was getting with my X800XT, so it's not bad.

[DynamicDude]

Ye but i should get alot more.

Defualt no AA or AF and the resolution 1024x768, Vertical sync off, i did something called low settings.

3.200ghz P4 / 915PChipset
1,5gb ram
Radeon X1800XL None Overclocked.
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi XtremeMusic

[DeViL_909]

I hate to be the AMD fanboy, but Pentiums do not seem to score nearly as well as AMDs right now. I am guessing that Athalon man is running a AMD lol. Thats just my guess though. I know going from 200x10 to 300x8 on my cpu got me almost 500 more points in 05

[DynamicDude]

I know but my graphic card should score more then it does now.

[DeViL_909]

Problem is that CPU can hold back grafics card. Not sure though. Maybe a reformat would help

[batboy]

Why should it score more? Because someone guessed that it should? You have a i915 chipset mobo which is not that great and the vid card ain't even overclocked. You are pulling down about the same score as my old 3.8 Prescott paired up with a X800XT. Again, I'm impressed you did that good.

One thing I noticed though, you have 1.5 gig of RAM listed. That probably means you are not running dual channel. You need to be running dual channel memory with an Intel rig if you want to maximize performance. How many sticks of RAM and what brand/speed are they?

[DynamicDude]

2x 512mb 200mhz kingston 3200
2x 256mb 200mhz samsung 3200

i think it its dual the rams are listed like this

512mb 512mb ----------256mb 256mb



I have tryed to oc my processor but i got a fcking siemens computer so i cant.

[batboy]

That explains part of the problem. Pull out the 2X256 modules. Try it with just the 2X512 sticks in dual channel (slots 1 & 3 or slots 2 & 4). Both sticks should be in slots of the same color.

Run CPU-Z and see if it tells you dual channel.

[DynamicDude]

It was dual is it possible to put the kingstone in the same colour and the samsung in the same colour?

[batboy]

Guess I don't know. I thought you had to either have 2 or 4 of the same matched sticks to run in dual channel.

You can increase your score a bit if you O/C the vid card. Download a program called ATI Tool, it works great on the X800 series.

Have you tried using an overclocking program called softFSB to see if that might work on your computer?

[DynamicDude]

The softfsb dident support my cpu and i alrady knew about the clock program but i should still get better score at 3dmark its maybe becouse that i dont have a amd.