3Dmark06 score keeps getting lower

[dli7319]

A half year ago my score was at 13268 then it dropped to around 12000 after reinstalling windows vista and now its at 11714, even at a higher frequency.
What do you think could be causing this?
i have a Pentium e5300 and a 4850 512mb on a p45 motherboard; didn't change hardware

 

[madhawa101]

see what programs are running in the background.... maybe that's why....

 

[dli7319]

i have utorrent and avg in the backround

 

[onefstsnake]

Could be many things.
Drivers, hardware degrading, the vista install...

By looking at your scores I dont think its the cpu bringing your scores down.
Id look into drivers and your GPU overclock.

 

[madhawa101]

ya... may be the new drivers......like onefstsnake sad....

try you old drivers.....
also vista sucks more resources....

 

[dli7319]

just ran it again and got even lower 11637, ill try older drivers

 

[Tokae]

3dmark06 is very cpu dependent. If you are running things like utorrent, and your antivirus' 'active scanning' (or whatever AVG calls it) is enabled, you will see a significant drop in your score. Disable avg while you run the test. Kill off any processes that are not needed for the time being.

 

[dli7319]

no, it was drivers used older ones and score went up thanks for suggestions

 

[madhawa101]

so it was drivers ......

good...

 

[Tokae]

glad you were able to solve it