Need help....low sandra scores

[enginjon]

I have an Athlon 850 on a MSI K7T Pro 2-a. I have successfully unlocked the chip and am running it at 1000 (10*100). I am using the latest o/c bios (1.0b16). I using 1.85V core voltage. Everything runs fine and is stable as can be, no crashes at all. I decided hey, let's see how the sandra scores are. Now I had some old scores written down from before (when running at default speed, with bios v2.4) for reference purposes.

They were

CPU: 2371/1159
Multimedia: 4770/5265
Memory: 365/435

Now when running the scores come out as:

CPU: 2420/1183
Multimedia: 4984/5475
Memory: 391/462


These aren't even close to what a 1 ghz shows. I decided to try it back at 850. And its scores were even lower. (I don't have exact numbers but approx)
CPU: 2100/1050
Mult: 4600/5100

This just baffles me, I'm not sure why they are lower. I've tried both VIA 4in1 4.28 and 4.29 with no difference. Would the o/c bios make this much of a difference? I notice that now I get a tip (in one of the screenshots that follows) that processor utilization is too high. Nothing else is running though (I included task manager in the screenshot)

Does anyone have any tips for what I can do, or to figure out what might be wrong?




Here are the screenshots




edit: I did however gain about 0.5 Mkeys/sec last night cracking RC5 than i did when it was at 850. 2.9Mkeys/sec----> 3.4Mkeys/sec. I did try reinstalling sandra with no difference in results.....maybe its just messed?

 

[SleepyGuy]

Set the RAM timings in the BIOS to SPD. Also update the bios to the latest OC bios or 2.4. Your mem scores are WAY TOO LOW! I'm on a Duron 700 @ 805 (7x115), ram is at CAS 2 153 Mhz. My mem scores are 500/600 if I do the OC bios I get 525/635. I stick with the 2.4 bios cuz i like to play it safe. Remember to set the ram timing to SPD, that's really important to getting good mem score on the MSI KT7 Pro2a. As for your CPU readings, they are very low and the correct mem timings should help them out as well. keep us updated. peace out.

 

[enginjon]

Wow, I found the weirdest thing ever. I was going through my head tryin to figure out what the hell could be dragging my system. Finally I think, my controller! I have a Gravis Gamepad Pro, that I've had on the shelf for months, and plugged it in about 2 weeks ago. When I disable it, Sandra scores go way up CPU: 2800/1360 Mem: 459/543 Then when I enable it, down they go to what they were in my first post. How weird is that?? I never thought that could be it, but I was just isolating stuff, and wow, it jsut shocks me. Anyone ever here of something like that? (btw, I'm running 9.5*106 now for a bit more memory speed hehehe) Thanks for the help.