What's with my benchmarking scores?

DodgerDodger
edited March 2005 in Hardware
Greetings all, today I got a brand new eVGA Geforce 6800 video card. I downloaded the latest drivers and all that jazz. I used Rivatuner and unlocked the extra pipelines and vertex shader things. Anyhow, needless to say, I was pumped. So, I ran 3Dmark 2003 and here's the score I got...

A whopping 5519. 0_o Shouldn't I be getting upwards to 9000+ in my scores? Like this guy...

(this is a review taken from newegg.com)

"Very fast card for the $$! No problems unlocking extra 4 pipes and shader with Riva Tuner. The stock cooling isn't that great though. Installed the NV 5 cooler and idle temps went from 52c to 42c stock! Must have for overclocking. Detected optimal oc'ing speeds with nvidia software....403/853!!(With NV 5) Have mine running @ 400/850 16p/6s, idles @ 46c =). Got this for a budget build. Waiting for all the new cards/cpu's this year before I spend a lot.

3d Mark 03 Scores:
8,350 Stock
9,166 16p/6s
10,737 400/850, 16p/6s, NV 5 Cooling
11,000+ 410/875 "" Getting a little close to stock ultra speeds :)

Will oc above 410/875 (stable) but I don't want to burn it up.

My system:
XP 1700+ @ 1.9ghz 400fsb
shuttle mb w\nforce 2 Ultra chipset
EVGA 6800 overclocked and unlocked
1gb pc3200 in dual channel
80gb 8mb wd se
Audigy 2 ZS
Klipsch 5.1 ultras
Win XP PRO SP2

Awesome card for the money!! Those of you with better processors out there (just about everybody) will probably see even higher scores. Thanks again new egg and fedex!!"

Here are my specs...

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (754 PIN)
Abit NF8
eVGA Geforce 6800 - Unlocked
1 stick of Samsung 256mb DDR PC2700 RAM
and 1 stick of Kingston 512mb DDR PC3200 RAM (768mb RAM total)
80gb Western Digital Hard-Drive 7200RPM
onboard sound card (nForce 4)
Windows XP (non-SP2)

Obviously, the only thing I don't have is the 1gb PC3200 RAM going for me. Could it really be making that much of a difference? Also, my harddrive is loaded with all kinds of Dreamcast games, Playstation games, N64 games, ect (i'm an emulation kinda guy). Anyway, everything takes up about 54 gigs of data on my harddrive. And I haven't run disk-defragmenter in a long time. Also, my old card was a Ti4200. I didn't uninstall anything seeing as how they're both nVidia brands. Could that be bogging it down? Anyway, I hope someone can help me fix this... thanks in advance.:)

EDIT: Just as a side note, everything works perfectly with everything unlocked. No artifacts, no nothing (tested with Half-Life 2 with everything maxed out).

Comments

  • DodgerDodger
    edited March 2005
    (another review taken from newegg)

    "got mine 3 days ago. replaced a xxxxxxxxx pro. unlocked the other 4 pipelines and extra shader with rivaturner. Overclocked it slightly got 9358 in 3dmark2003, amazing graphics, can play hl2 on highest settings at over 100 fps sweet. Doom 3 plays nice also and far cry too. first without the pipelines opened I received a score of 8450 or so then with the extra pipes got the score above, just crazy.


    amd 64 2800+
    biostar k8vgam
    evga 6800 with 16 pipes and 6 shaders.
    80 se wd hdd
    hercules fortizimo 7.1 sound card
    5 in 1 card reader
    512 kingston hyper x pc 2700
    lite on combo drive 48 x
    d link wireless pci
    Enermax Venus case micro atx silver/blue-=love this case!!!!!!"

    This is ridiculous... how is this guy getting nearly twice the score as me? I have more raw power in my PC. Could it be driver issues? I have the latest drivers and such installed...

    EDIT: I only get a maximum on 1 FPS on Trolls Lair CPU test. Could my CPU be bogging down system performance somehow? But how is that possible? Somebody please help me. :(
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited March 2005
    yeah something isn't working right... although i couldn't tell you what. try reinstalling the drivers. other than that, you might want to start from a clean format
  • DodgerDodger
    edited March 2005
    This thing has got me stumped... AA/AF are all application controlled. Vsync is totaly off. I've downloaded and reinstalled the drivers mutiple times. What the heck is going on this with thing?
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    how much space do you have free on your hard drive? If you've not defragged yet, have at it. Also, 512 RAM could be limiting you, but only if you've got a lot of processes (or a few that use a lot of mem (FAH w/ bigunit (bigpacket?), for example) running at once. How much free memory do you have when you're just chilling in windows - task manager will show you this.
  • DodgerDodger
    edited March 2005
    I have defragmented. I have some 25gigs of space left. I have 768mb of RAM totaly and idlely, i'm only useing 190mb of RAM.
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    have you run any cpu-specific benchmarks that would help you determine if it's at fault? Sandra lets you do this.
  • DodgerDodger
    edited March 2005
    Sandra doesn't have 64-bit processor support. Any other I might be able to try?
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    you can run superpi...do the 1M test. I'll find a link for you to compare your score to in a second

    http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=36

    also, an SSE2 Patch for superpi

    http://xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=23762

    here's a thread @ SM with some scores.

    http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25447

    If it appears to be taking too long, you may have a problem with cpu/mem. Otherwise, it's likely a driver problem. Also, did you try benching it without the extra enabled pipes?
  • DodgerDodger
    edited March 2005
    I ran the tests and here is everything I got...

    http://www.imagehosting.us/imagehosting/showimg.jpg/?id=302592

    Yeah, my CPU is going far too slow. Should I just RMA this sucker while I still got time and get the 939 socket variation?
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