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Dirkiess · Jun 16, 2005, 03:05 PM // 15:05

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Originally Posted by Icarium

5011 dosent seem much better

ah, well guildwars still looks pretty

When you run the program, see if it's doing a lot of hard drive bashing. Could be the reason for the poor results. Maybe your system needs a bit of a cleanup or slightly more memory so you don't have to read much off the hard drive.

Algren Cole · Jun 16, 2005, 03:15 PM // 15:15

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Originally Posted by cannonfodder

If your talking about 8k in 3dmarko3, then no way, although yours is a good card, it would be hard pressed to get 5k in 3dmark03............

the beauties of clocking the shit out of your card.
I get about 6900-7000 depending on how hot it is in my room.

Diplo · Jun 16, 2005, 08:25 PM // 20:25

As near to 8000 as dammit

Athlon XP 2800 Barton @ 400FSB
Leadtek GeForce 6600GT (Forceware 76.41)
1GB PC-3200 RAM
Leadtek NForce2 Mobo

Icarium · Jun 16, 2005, 10:20 PM // 22:20

Interesting, it seems that the more i try to tweak my pc the lower my scores get :P my last score was 3200 or so . . ha! (ive been at this all day) no luck.

Dirkiess · Jun 16, 2005, 11:21 PM // 23:21

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Originally Posted by Icarium

Interesting, it seems that the more i try to tweak my pc the lower my scores get :P my last score was 3200 or so . . ha! (ive been at this all day) no luck.

Why don't you quote your System and OS Specs and we'll see if we can help you get a better score.

Diplo · Jun 16, 2005, 11:22 PM // 23:22

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Originally Posted by Icarium

Interesting, it seems that the more i try to tweak my pc the lower my scores get...

3D Mark isn't a particular good app for testing general PC tweaks - it's almost exclusively designed to test your GPU (graphics card) and not your CPU. If you want to benchmark your general PC performance then I would highly recommend SiSoft Sandra.

Icarium · Jun 16, 2005, 11:57 PM // 23:57

ok here goes . .Asus K8v se Deluxe motherboard
AMD Atholon 3200+ 64 bit cpu
Platinum Dual Channel 1GB pc3200 400mhz ram
Nvidia GeForce 6800 gt 256mb 8x AGP Video card
Windows xp sp2 . . . .anything else ?

i am now using 71.89winxp drivers

cannonfodder · Jun 17, 2005, 06:54 AM // 06:54

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Originally Posted by Icarium

ok here goes . .Asus K8v se Deluxe motherboard
AMD Atholon 3200+ 64 bit cpu
Platinum Dual Channel 1GB pc3200 400mhz ram
Nvidia GeForce 6800 gt 256mb 8x AGP Video card
Windows xp sp2 . . . .anything else ?

i am now using 71.89winxp drivers

One of my pc is more or less exactly the same as yours except i have an asus a8v mobo...?

With those specs, you should be getting around 4.5 to 5k in 3dmark05 and about 11.5 to 12k in 3dmark03..so if your not hitting at least 11k in 03 then somethings wrong m8

Icarium · Jun 17, 2005, 07:23 AM // 07:23

lol im getting nowhere near 11k in mark 3 try 3500 or so ? . .. how would i find out whats wrong?

cannonfodder · Jun 17, 2005, 08:04 AM // 08:04

Try reinstalling you motherboard chipset drivers...also try a different nvidia driver set, use driver cleaner, cant remember the site, but google for it...

Oh you could try the dxdiag tool and see if that brings up any errors

As a last resort defrag do a general clean up etc etc

Dirkiess · Jun 17, 2005, 09:09 AM // 09:09

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Originally Posted by cannonfodder

Try reinstalling you motherboard chipset drivers...also try a different nvidia driver set, use driver cleaner, cant remember the site, but google for it...

Oh you could try the dxdiag tool and see if that brings up any errors

As a last resort defrag do a general clean up etc etc

Go to www.guru3d.com for driver cleaner.

Also, I would double check all your BIOS settings to make sure you have everything set to the correct settings. If you have anything set that doesn't go with your hardware settings, that could cause problems.
Easiest way to determine what is going on, set your BIOS settings to default and only set the CPU settings to show your correct processor speed.

All the info on how to do this, is located in your Mobo Manual.

Diplo · Jun 17, 2005, 11:19 AM // 11:19

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Originally Posted by cannonfodder

and about 11.5 to 12k in 3dmark03..so if your not hitting at least 11k in 03 then somethings wrong m8

If you get around 11K in 3D Mark 03 with a stock 6800 GT then you are doing fine.

cannonfodder · Jun 17, 2005, 11:29 AM // 11:29

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Originally Posted by Diplo

If you get around 11K in 3D Mark 03 with a stock 6800 GT then you are doing fine.

I know, It's Icarium who's having the problem, plus I've clocked the bejesus out of mine and used a modded bios to give the core more volts....

Icarium · Jun 18, 2005, 10:18 PM // 22:18

Ok how interesting this has been :P i managed to turf my bios, and turned my PC into a paper wieght . . .after a ton of messing around with it i finaly was able to reset the bios defaults ( i pulled the lithium battery) and now i have a working pc . . :P i still cant seem to achieve these amazing scores ( 5600 in mark 03 is the best i can get) but oh well

when i have read up on what im doing maybe ill tweak it some more

Thanks for al the help guys !

Icarium · Jun 19, 2005, 02:38 AM // 02:38

After i got my AGP apurture up to 128meg from 64 where it was stuck . .

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SleepeR · Jun 19, 2005, 04:08 AM // 04:08

Wow i got a shitty score...I'm embarassed. 5485 with a Radeon 9800XT, AMD FX-51, 2gb ddr corsair ram, some ASUS (insert random letters) mobo. Can anyone tell me what's wrong, and i'm not overclocking anything so if you guys can provide some overclocking tools?

ElRey · Jun 19, 2005, 11:29 AM // 11:29

Did you use 3dMark05? It is a reasonable score there, but my comp:

AMD Athlon 64 3400+ 2.4 ghz
Nvidia GeForce 6800GT 128mB (unlocked)
1 GB Ram

Gets a 9407 in 3dMark03, so that could be your problem.

SleepeR · Jun 19, 2005, 01:08 PM // 13:08

This is 3dMark03

Principa Discordia · Jun 19, 2005, 01:13 PM // 13:13

I'd say that's a reasonable score for a 9800XT. It would probably go up a little with a fresh reformat or some hardcore maintainence, but it's nothing to worry about.

Kalrakhi · Jun 19, 2005, 01:31 PM // 13:31