Bad P-4 3.0C CPU??

[kingbee]

Put together a P-4 3.0C and an Abit IC7-G Mobo and it sucks. Big time.

System:
Intel P-4 3.0C 800 FSB Processor Hyper-Threading enabled
Abit IC7-G MaxII with ver. 16 BIOS
Paired OCZ EL DDR PC-4000 / 500mhz / Gold Edition / Dual Channel 256MB Sticks populating all 4 slots=1GB
Maxtor 40MB ATA-133 HDD in SATA(using SATA Adapter)
WinXP Pro SP-1
Audigy2 Platinum
Radeon 9700 Pro AGP 8x
DX9.0b
Antec 480W PSU

My Sandra(latest version) scores are around 1100/688 Dhrystone/Whetstone which is utterly RIDICULOUS and HDD/Memory performance is abysmal. The machine will barely run 3DMark2003 and takes so long to load the benchmarks i finally just exited 3DMark when CPU Test Two ran at 1FPS. What a joke.

My AMD 2800+ Barton/Asus Nforce2 400mhz FSB machine gets 3DMark2003 scores in the 5400 range with the SAME Radeon 9700 Pro vid card i have in the Intel machine.

I've tried everything and the CPU just won't perform. WCPUID identifies the CPU correctly as does Sandra but the CPU performs like a Pentium II 450. The BIOS posts with CPU @ 3.01 Mhz "Memory in Dual Channel 200/200". The OCZ Memory is also correctly identified in Sandra. I've tried CPU default settings, NB Strap, manual settings, and the same with the memory. I'm at my wits end. Should i RMA this piece of crap or am i missing something?? I've read the manual from cover to cover and don't see anything obvious i've missed.

Kingbee

 

[een]

have u tried bringing up the task manager, and whether any process is using 99% of the resources...
I had the same problem when I found that ICQ when idle for some reaoson is hogging the CPU...

 

[orion7144]

Something is not right! My scores with the same board are 2592/5763 before OC'ing and with a 2.4C. When you open up task manager you should see 2 processors (you may have to set it up to show both). If either one is at 50% that is your problem. Another thing to check is your temps. The P4's throttle down when the temp reaches a certain point. The abit boards are known for reading the temps wrong and if in your bios you have it setup to low it will slow down considerably.

 

[orion7144]

Another thing to try is to take two of those sticks of memory out. . There has been complaints about filling all four slots.

 

[Geomagick]

I agree here with orion, it very much looks like that your CPU is throttling down, this would give really poor scores.

How hot is it getting in the case? These chips can take quite a punishment but it's still worth a look.

Have you got some different RAM you could try as well, just a hunch but I've known people who have had bad experiences with OCZ ram.