low 3dmarks with new system running 1900xtx

[sejanus69]

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

 

[hans030390]

Thats low? I think those over 10k are running crossfire cards.

You're fine.

 

[Extelleron]

As long as games work fine, who cares. I know I only got 8000 in 3D Mark 05 with my Opteron 144 + X1900XT @ stock, but I'm playing F.E.A.R., maximum w/o SS, 1280x960, 4xAdaptive AA/16x HQAF silky smooth, so I'm not going to worry,

 

[RussianSensation]

Try to enable performance settings in control panel instead of quality mipmaps. Disable Vsync and set appropriate sliders to most left positions. That should bump the score. I am not sure about battle for middleearth. Nice system btw.

 

[Frostwake]

why do people keep testing 3dmark05? ITS CPU LIMITED. test 06 instead

 

[Bull Dog]

But see the Total O6 score varies depending on the processor used.

 

[greenwar]

I get 109xx at 3dmark05 with the following:

Opty 165@2500
DDR440@2-2-2-5-1t
powercooler x1900xt at stock

So yes 8k is quite low for an x1900xtx

 

[1Dark1Sharigan1]

Setting drivers to performance and increasing your CPU speed should get you in the 10K+ range . . . not that it matters much . . .

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Originally posted by: Frostwake
why do people keep testing 3dmark05? ITS CPU LIMITED. test 06 instead

What? No way. Isnt 06 the cpu limited bench? it takes into large consideration your CPU!