Ok kind of found the problem.....the origianl score I got before I can no longer attain. I reset my mb to defaults and ran 3dmark again...now im getting even less. So actually overclocking it was not degrading the performance, but now I am getting way less than when i first ran the program. Anyone have any idea why this would be? I have not changed anything as far as new hardware or new drivers for the video card or anything...maybe spyware or a winixp update that made things worse? I still have never installed that xp fix for dual cores where you have to manually edit the registry...this is really wierd.