Need help with a slow amd 64 3000+

[jay13sz]

I recently purchased an entire new rig and the processor is running amazingly slow, sisoft arithmetic/multimedia benchmarks has it running below an AMD athlon xp 2400+'s scores. Dunno whats wrong. Its running at HT x5, fsb at 200, internal clock at 1.8 ghz (x9 multiplier). Also, i tried benching w/ 3dmark2005, i got 3 fps on the first benchmark, and 1 fps on the last one LOL : /

Final scores:

37000 for Aquamark 3
975 for 3DMark 2005

My specs are as follows:

silverstone temjin 6 case
AMD 64 3000+ socket 939 winchester (week 37)(arctic silver 5 + thermaltake venus)
msi k8n neo2 platinum (latest bios / fail safe settings)
1 gb corsair value ram (running in dual channel default timings with copper heatspreaders)
rosewill nvidia 5900 XT (128 mb)
cooler master 450w active pfc psu

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Uncle Bob]

well something's definitely wrong here, possibly thermal throttling? double check your heatsink install, what sort of temps are being shown in your bios

 

[canadageek]

has it been running slow since you bought it or has it happened recently?

 

[jay13sz]

cool n quiet is off
cpu temp is 35 c
gpu temp is 37 c
mainboard at 22 c

im so confused : / this was supposed to be a damn good system - was gonna oc it to 2.4 ghz ... now i cant even get past 2 ghz without it crashing on me. cpu voltage is 1.4 btw, i tried 1.5 but no change in speed

oh, and i just set it up today ( response to canadageek )

 

[Uncle Bob]

Dumb question time - are you using default bios settings? has the system been on a broadband internet connection w/o sp2 and/or firewall

 

[jay13sz]

using fail-safe settings - broadband connection - windows xp is updated to sp2 - firewall off (dont see how that affects cpu performance...) (updated original post with new info)

 

[mechBgon]

You have broadband and have your firewall down, huh? 😛 Having the firewall down puts you at risk of worm/virus infections, which could certainly nuke the performance of your system at the least. Done a full antivirus scan lately? If not, try a free online portscan and antivirus scan: link to Symantec, run both the Security Check and the antivirus scan.

On the drivers, reinstall your nForce3 motherboard's unified driver package (get the latest ones from nVidia), then reboot, and then reinstall your nVidia video-card drivers and reboot again.

Other things:

1) SiSoft Sandra is often smokin' crack, don't put too much weight into anything it says :roll:

2) if you have any PCI cards, take them out as a fact-finding step. Could be an IRQ clash going on there.

 

[jay13sz]

well - i turn off my windows firewall because personally i think its a pos. i use norton internet security 2005 - i installed xp2 from cd b4 i went online to update norton 2005 so im pretty confident i dont have any viruses / spyware. i have no pci cards because i have the silverstone temjin 6 and i wanted direct airflow from vid card to psu fan. i will try reinstalling the drivers though from nvidias site. we'll see what happens : D

also i ran prime95 for about an hour, cpu maxed out at 45 c - a little high for such a expensive cooling system running stock... room temperature is about 17 c, maybe its cause its a week 37

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k... updated the drivers... no change to either 3dmark scores or sisoftware scores. should i rma the mobo and the cpu...

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did some more testing - graphics card is on par with performance compared online through aquamark 3 (41,000) and 3dmark03 (5400) - i oc'ed it from 300 mhz / 700 mhz to 450 mhz / 800 mhz.

so i guess its just the cpu or mobo.