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Strange bench results A64 3200+ 90nm Asus A8V

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mbrc51

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I am new to the AMD side of the fence, I upgraded from a p4 2.8c @ 3.6 to the new AMD64 technology, but I am having odd results. At first glance I was optimistic with my fresh new install and initial Sisandra memtest(once i figured out that 2:1 = 1:1) I broke 7000MB/s. That was an astounding first impression as I was at 6000MB/s with my intel rig.

Then I installed 3dmark01 and my framerates were obviously low and I ended up with a score of 17,000, much lower than my intel system and drasticly lower than others I see with similar set-ups. I think I am bottlenecked somewhere and I think it could be the bios but I'm unfamiliar with AMD bios settings.
Any help would be greatly apreaciated :beer:
 
1. Tighten your memory timings (if you need increase the memory voltage to 2.8V); also enable 1T command rate and try to run the ram with the last value of 10 since it gives the best performance for intel systems (ie. 2-2-2-10 is faster than 2-2-2-5 on A64 AND 1T command rate vs. 2T is much faster)
Make sure you are running the CPU:RAM = 1:1 since your ram is capable of doing so and you'll get higher performance

2. In videocard settings slide everything to performance (to the "left") and disable AA/AF by setting them as Application Preference only, disable Truform, etc.

3. Make sure you have the latest videocard drivers, motherboard chipset drivers (Via Hyperion maybe?), etc

4. Disable onboard sound and have discrete videocard only if you hanvet done so

5. Try to decrease videocard overclocked speeds as often a videocard will throttle back to prevent overheating and your benchmarks might only run at reduced speeds and not at the speeds you have set.

6. Get the latest motherboard BIOS available and latest version of DX9.0c.

7. Disable all the programs you can in the TaskManager when you are running the benchmarks.

8. In sisoftware sandra, I thin you ran combined performance score instead of the Memory Bandwidth test since that # seems way too high. Download the latest 2005 Lite version of SiSandra.

Run 3dMark 03 to isolate the videocard performance and see if that's running correctly. You should get around 6000-6500.

My friend let me borrow 9700non-pro @stock speeds and on 2.6@3.06 ghz P4 with 512mb of ram it scored 16500 points in 3dmark01, so something is definately not right here.
 
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