[CarbolicSmokeBa]

Hi all, just finished putting together my new system which is detailed below.....

P4 3.06 Northwood 533bus 512 Cache
ASUS P4S8X-MX
2x 512mbCorsair DDR 3200 = 1GB
128MB Pixelview GF 6600GT 128MB DDR3 8x AGP
19" Iiyama TFT 12ms
80GB HDD

Not the best setup in the world, but certainly not he worst either.

Have just Overclocked the graphics card, heres the link to my 3D mark score........

EDIT: Just overclocked the PC by 10% aswell.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1273737

quite a poor mark considering the setup.



Aparently my Mobo, only likes AGP cars with 1.5v, was told int he shop it make no difference to use this 6600GT. When i first ran 3D mark on this rig, got a score of 658!

Was getting messages from the Nvidia Sentinel Power indicator, reporting the card was getting insuffiecient power! So to protect my hardware the graphics processor performance was cut to a level that offers safe operation!

It then clicked the troublestarter help, to be informed i'd need to power the 6600GT with a direct link to the systems PSU! Cut a long story short I did, the performance has inproved as you can see, but it still seems about 1/2 of what it should be on a rig like mine.

Also, noticed teh 6600GTs instructions indicates it needs atleast a 300w power PSU supply, I'm running a 250 Micro ATX without any problems. Could this contribute to the poor 3D mark score?

As your reading this you probably know a thing or 2 about PCs, so I would appreciate any and all help in getting a better score.

HELP!!!!!

[Juic3]

Your score isnt too far off from others, but youre overclocking a bit so theres something fishy going around, did you check for other processes taking up system resources ? Spyware, etc ? Your CPU has a 533mhz FSB which gets you low cpu marks.

[CarbolicSmokeBa]

Thanks for the info Juic3, its a fresh install, 3 hours old!

Reckon it could be down to the FSB?

Do you thinkg I have cured the AGP 1.5v probelm by powering the card directly from the PSU?

[e13m3n7]

I had a similar problem with the driver...i tried with 77.77 for 3dmark2001se and i had a score of 6k or something...now im with 52.16 and I got 13k!!! on futuremark the approved driver for your card is 77.72 maybe it can cause problem??? here the link http://www.futuremark.com/community/drivers/?approved

[CarbolicSmokeBa]

Thanks for the info all.

@Nasgul, dual channel mode?

So to improve you reckon, larger FSB?

[jenko]

All 6600GT AGP cards come with minimum 2ns of ram the same as the 6800GT which is rated at 1000mhz, but because nvidia wish to make the PCI-e version score a little higher they tell manufacturers to underclock the ram to 900mhz, which of course you should set strait to 1000mhz soon as you install the card
3dmark 05 is really graphics card depended overclocking the cpu and ram dont improve the score much, but getting just over 3000 is probly normaly for a 6600GT, remember most people set the LOD to high performance in the nvidia control panel before running the bench.