low 3dmarks with new system running 1900xtx

sejanus69

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hi guys,

I just built a new box. I used to be really into pc's a few years ago but spent a couple of years out of it so am a little rusty.

athlon 4800+ (not overclocked)
4 x 1gb oc-z
2 x 300gb seagate sata2 drives (not in a raid config)
dfi rdx-200 motherboard
gecube ati 1900xtx
win xp sp2 32bit edition.

It only benchmarked 8943 3dmarks in 3dmark05 and i see other guys with similar specs getting 11k+

In some games it runs well - i.e. call of duty 2 I can play 1920x1200 with 4x AA and it's smooth as butter. In other games like battle for midle earth II it lags a little but I'm not sure whether to blame the video card, or my hard drives which seem a bit slow for some reason.

with the hard drives, I ran the sisoft sandra (2005 SR3) filesystem benchmark and it did 41mb/s I don't know if thats good or not. i doubt it is.

running latest ati drivers.

any tips would be greatly appreciated. cheers
 

Luckyboy1

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Mar 13, 2006
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You have application preferrence checked? If so, it will lower your score vs. dummying down the eye candy and letting it run.

Post your diagnosis please. If you need instructions, see Luckyboy's Guide For Complete Users.
 

LOUISSSSS

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its cuz u have 4gb of ram. /sarcasm
but 4gb of ram really does slow down your performance
who cares about 3dmark scores when your games play fine
 

w00t

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Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
its cuz u have 4gb of ram. /sarcasm
but 4gb of ram really does slow down your performance
who cares about 3dmark scores when your games play fine

I was just about to say try taking out two gigs and benchmarking because the athlon 64 has a built in memory controller as you probably know but what you probably didn't know that it isnt ment to support 4 sticks of ram.

 

LOUISSSSS

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n3g. my 1900xt playing fear cs:s & cod2 max aa/af all high settings with ati Ai enabled on max silk smooth is all i expect from my rig