Really low 3dmark scores...

rmh636

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Since I put together this PC about 2 years ago, I never thought to bother with running 3Dmark on my system before. Most games run well enough, so I never had any reason to. I decided to run it today, and I ended up getting a much lower score than I expected. It's lower (by a large margin) than many other scores I've seen from people with lower end hardware.

The score I got was 4528, and here are my specs:

Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-430 ATX12V 2.01 430W Power Supply
NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GT 512 mb
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.4GHz
SB X-Fi Audio [A000] (Xtrememusic)
2048MB RAM

One thing to mention, too, is that during the CPU tests I got 0 FPS the entire time. I don't know if that's normal or not.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing this? I'm thinking there's a bottleneck somewhere. Or am I just way off and this score is normal for a system like mine?

Thanks, I'd really appreciate any help.
 

rmh636

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I just don't understand why I've seen 6,000+ scores from people running a 3200+ and 7600 gt...
 

MarcVenice

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prolly 3dmark05 lol. My righ does 8000 or so, with a 8800gts, no way some1 can do 6000+ with a singlecore cpu and a 7600gt.