Low 3dmark05 on AMD64 3000+

[timbatron]

I just bought an ASUS K8N-E motherboard and an AMD 64 3000+ CPU. I have a Geforce 6800 GT, 480 W Thermaltake PSU, 512 megs PC3200 RAM and a SATA RAID 0 array. I decided to benchmark my PC with the new motherboard and CPU, and I got about 2400 marks, with about 500 CPU marks. This is waaay lower than the scores I see on the result browser, by a factor of 2 or 3. I can't even begin to imagine what my problem is. The only thing I can figure is something with bios settings (or maybe I need to flash the bios).

Any suggestions?

 

[thegimp03]

You're right, the score is pretty low, lower than my setup which pales in comparison. Go into the bios and turn off fast-writes. Make sure the AGP aperture or w/e it is is set to 256 mb. You make sure you have the latest drivers and everything else?

 

[timbatron]

I turned off fast writes, but no help. I've determined that the problem is definately with my graphics card and/or AGP bus. I just ran PCMark04, and all my stats are comparable to everyone else, except for the "Graphics Memory - 64 Lines" test, which is about 4x lower. (My 600 vs. their 2491)

It almost sounds like I'm running in AGP 1x.... but i can't figure out how that could be possible, since I don't see an option for that in the BIOS.

 

[AnImuS]

Also have you turned off vsync or AA when benching?

 

[TimboAA]

I'm getting low scores as well with 3dmark03

It says my current AGP rate is 0x when it should be 4x. I manually changed it in the BIOS too...

I'm going to try changing to the new driver. maybe that will help.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=1851603

The compared system is my old system before i just recently broke the motherboard.

1472 was my benchmark compared to my 1525 on my AMD 2100 overclocked to a 2700

 

[imported_TimJ]

Do you get a good framerate in games? If so that's all that really matters.

 

[platinumike]

ya turn off af/aa and vsync. check with cpu-z or similar software to see what agp your running at.

 

[btbam]

do you have an aqequate voltage to video card?

 

[imported_Computer MAn]

Did you install all of the drivers that came with your cd. I forgot to do that once and was getting very low scores until I installed them.

 

[iversonyin]

go into BIOS and set AGP to 4x/8x

there should be that option in BIOS

 

[TimboAA]

Just tried it again forcing AA, AF, & VSync off instead of letting the program choose it. Updated the drivers as well.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=3412925

Scores with 3DMark03:
1629 3D Marks
677 CPU Marks