stock 6600 3dmark score

[Saldrin]

Sorry for my ignorance, but I'm wondering about my score it seems really low. I ran the basic verion of 3dmark06 and for my cpu test I got:

Score: 1474
CPU1 Red Valley: 0.474 fps
CPU2 Ref Valley: 0.734 fps

I'm running a stock 6600 on a Asus p5b Motherboard with 2gigs of ddr2 800 ram.

Is there something worng? I'm having problems with my 7900GT and FEAR, but now that I see my CPU scores, I'm wondering if there is something else seriously wrong.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Atty]

I'll try 3dmark06 with my E6600 now and post scores, hold on.

 

[imported_BigTwin]

I think you should be higher than that...at stock my e6600 and 7950 runs close to 8000...OC'ed at 3.75 ghz and OCing the 7950 i get about 9500...some do better than that.

 

[Atty]

I got 1.5 FPS on the CPU test.

E6600, 2GB DDR2 800 (XMS2)

 

[Saldrin]

Thanks for running that.

I'm assuming there is something wrong with my CPU then? Are there any other tests I can try to see if it actually is my chip or a motherboard problem?

I'm just stumped as to what my problem is. I'm on my second 7900 GT (RMA'ed the first) because FEAR would crash, but other games run great (oblivion, Far cry, Quake 4...). Even the graphic stress test seem to be about normal using 3dmark06, just my CPU is low... I was surprised they even ran since FEAR crashes.

Should I try any of the other tests from the forum sticky?

 

[RandomUser]

Is it normal for the two CPU tests to be that different? I had similar variances in mine.

CPU1 - Red Valley - .859 fps
CPU2 - Red Valley - 1.340 fps

This is for E6400@3.2G with a 7900GT

 

[Atty]

Mine were like that, I think one uses more advanced effects then the other. Thats why there are two tests on the same scene.

 

[Saldrin]

I think I found the problem, one of my files: DLLML.exe was stuck ( I have two of them?) at 50% When I killed that process my CPU use went down to zero. I reran the test and got this:

CPU Score: 2115
CPU1 Red Valley: 0.673fps
CPU2 Red Valley: 1.063fps

So I guess with some better "optimization" I could get a slightly better score. I just ran the test with all my normal stuff running. Although I would like to know what is causing that Creative process to act up....

FEAR still crashes though, I can't believe I went through two 7900GTs in three weeks. With the cost of shipping these things back to newegg, I could have gotten a GTX.

 

[cmdrdredd]

The tests in 3dmark for CPU are supposed to give different scores. One uses one core and one uses 2 (or as many as you have).

 

[phile]

Originally posted by: Saldrin
I think I found the problem, one of my files: DLLML.exe was stuck ( I have two of them?) at 50% When I killed that process my CPU use went down to zero. I reran the test and got this:

CPU Score: 2115
CPU1 Red Valley: 0.673fps
CPU2 Red Valley: 1.063fps

So I guess with some better "optimization" I could get a slightly better score. I just ran the test with all my normal stuff running. Although I would like to know what is causing that Creative process to act up....

FEAR still crashes though, I can't believe I went through two 7900GTs in three weeks. With the cost of shipping these things back to newegg, I could have gotten a GTX.

You do have the P965 chipset drivers installed, right?

-phil

 

[Saldrin]

Yes why?

It is kind of a pain to install, because I have an older version of XP Pro, and I have to work my way to SP2 then install the drivers.