HELP, Something's wrong with my CPU's performance!
Take a look at these..
my cpu:
my memory sticks;
Someone said my memory might be causing my CPU to perform poorly too because not both the memories run at the same speed.
My PC:
http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=12&XLID=0&UID=7282098
3DMark Score 5858 3DMarks
CPU Score 3334 CPUMarks
CPU Name Intel Pentium 4 3352 MHz
CPU String Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
FSB 210 MHz
Video Memory 256 MB
Core Clock 475 MHz <- oc'd from 430
Memory Clock 1464 MHz <- oc'd from 1300
a similar pc: http://service.futuremark.com/orb/projectcompare.jsp?projectType=12&projectId=1903163&ownProjectId=2455090
3DMark Score 5871 3DMarks
CPU Score 4652 CPUMarks
CPU Name Intel Pentium 4 3392 MHz
CPU String Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
FSB 200 MHz
Video Memory 256 MB
Core Clock 12 MHz <- probably 3dmark website mistake
Memory Clock 1255 MHz
His CPU performs so much better than mine man..his CPU is probably Prescott but i doubt the extra 512kb L2cache makes that much of a difference.
There's something wrong with my CPU :/ My CPU is holding my VideoCard back so much
Does anyone have an idea why my CPU is performing so poorly?
my cpu:
my memory sticks;
Someone said my memory might be causing my CPU to perform poorly too because not both the memories run at the same speed.
My PC:
http://service.futuremark.com/orb/resultanalyzer.jsp?projectType=12&XLID=0&UID=7282098
3DMark Score 5858 3DMarks
CPU Score 3334 CPUMarks
CPU Name Intel Pentium 4 3352 MHz
CPU String Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
FSB 210 MHz
Video Memory 256 MB
Core Clock 475 MHz <- oc'd from 430
Memory Clock 1464 MHz <- oc'd from 1300
a similar pc: http://service.futuremark.com/orb/projectcompare.jsp?projectType=12&projectId=1903163&ownProjectId=2455090
3DMark Score 5871 3DMarks
CPU Score 4652 CPUMarks
CPU Name Intel Pentium 4 3392 MHz
CPU String Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
FSB 200 MHz
Video Memory 256 MB
Core Clock 12 MHz <- probably 3dmark website mistake
Memory Clock 1255 MHz
His CPU performs so much better than mine man..his CPU is probably Prescott but i doubt the extra 512kb L2cache makes that much of a difference.
There's something wrong with my CPU :/ My CPU is holding my VideoCard back so much
Does anyone have an idea why my CPU is performing so poorly?
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You need to be benchmarking with 15-20 active processes, and no explorer.exe running.
When I benchmark; yes I don't have all those things in my system tray but I do have explorer and a bunch of other stuff.. I'll try to benchmark again with no explorer and hardly any processes
I'll let you know how it goes! Stay tuned! :necro:
What could I do to fix this?
Also... it could be a fluke in his test for the CPU.
I ran the test without the kingston ram.
New score is:
3DMark Score 6105 3DMarks
CPU Score 3694 CPUMarks
a similar pc:
DMark Score 6121 3DMarks
CPU Score 3893 CPUMarks
CPU Name Intel Pentium 4 3207 MHz
CPU String Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20 GHz
It seems his CPU still outperforms me quite a bit while having a lower speed.. could this be because his p4 might be a Prescott and mine is Northwood?
http://www.tomshardware.com/2004/05/17/p4_northwood_and_prescott_comparison_at_4/page13.html
This specific page shows some benchmarks and images for them, all in all there is not a huge difference, but if you look at the speed which you're currently running you can clearly see a difference especially in the PC Mark CPU benchmark where the prescott performed a bit better. Look at the second image, at the 3.4GHz range... see how the separate?
Here are a couple more points to ponder...
The timings your memory is running vs. the friend's PC... I don't know
The clock multiplier and FSB are not identical between your computer and your friend's.
Also I just noticed that your Processor was running 3352MHz before and your most recent bench was 3207MHz.
Originally you said...
But in your last post you say your friend's PC has the 3.2GHz Prescott?
As for why he is getting a high CPU score... could be many reasons, what is his FSB at? We also can probably go with memory latency difference and such too since I think that accounts for the CPU score as well. I don't know what your memory latency is like nor his/hers.
Here's a pic of my motherboard:
Do I have to put my dual channel ram sticks in the blue ones or something? Right now I just have them next to eachother; 1 in the blue and 1 in the black.
1. You can only use two or four sticks at a time.
2. Blue and blue / black and black.
You were slaughtering your CPU's memory bandwidth by disabling dual-channel memory w/ three sticks.
ps. thx allot guys, this is helpin allot
3DMark Score 6309 3DMarks
CPU Score 4004 CPUMarks
Ok let's say I wanna upgrade to 2GB ram.. do I have to get another dualchannel pair rams like the corsair ones i have in my system atm?
Or can i get any ram as long as they're the same?
tehe... told ya!
As for dual channel, you want 2 or 4 identical DIMM's of memory. For example, two more 512MB PC3200 sticks of Corsair memory like what you have. However... you may take a nominal performance hit becuase running 4 DIMM's is harder than running 2. The Command Rate gets bumped from 1T to 2T, in my case when I had 4 DIMM's I was getting something like 5000MBps memory(I don't remember the actual amount) bandwitdh, and when I ran two sticks I got like 5200MBps, so it's not much but you seem to be the type that wants every bit of performance he can get. So if you want 2GB of memory, it would be best to only run 2 identical sticks of 1GB memory vs. 4 512MB sticks. Sell off the 512MB sticks. That's what I would do.
The reason i don't wanna spend too much is that Instead of upgrading this old pc I could save and buy new board etc :/
btw if anyone has any idea of any other tweaks/oeing I could do with my ram/cpu lemme know 'cause it still bothers me that people have higher score than me without oc'ing their video card/cpu
I'm very happy woot, thx guys :celebrate
Tomorrow im gonna tweak my windows XP with http://www.tweakguides.com/All.html (get TweakGuides Tweaking Companion).
That guy's guides are insane lol, I highly recommend checking it out. That TweakGuides Tweaking Companion he wrote is 175 pages haha