Athlon 2600+ Scores Low On SiSoft Sandra - Why?

[RobHW]

I recently upgraded my EPoX 8RDA+ motherboard with an Athlon 2600+ FSB 333 processor. When I run SiSoft Sandra's Arithmetic Benchmark on it, it scores 7752 MIPS. SiSoft Sandra's reference Athlon 2600+ processor shows a score of 8028 MIPS. Repeated runs give similar results. Is this close enough, or is my score low? Are the SiSoft Sandra references accurate?

Thank You!

 

[KillaBong]

Maybe you have some little programs or something running? It's still fairly close, and no system can have identicle performance. My overclocked 2100+ gets 8639 MIPS though.

 

[simonsky]

Possibly The Sandra reference score is for a 266MHz FSB 2600+, running at 2133MHz.
Your 333MHz FSB 2600+ runs at 2083MHz

The 333MHz FSB 2600+ is a better overclocker and has been reported to run reliably upward of 2400MHz.

Your motherboard (nForce2) probably unlocks the Thoroughbred B 333MHz FSB 2600+ by itself, so you can change multiplier and overclocking by a small amount (one half step, bringing you to 2167MHz, 2700+ level) should be trivial.

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