Two horrible Sandra scores... why?

[Chocolate Pi]

My new computer is a A8N-SLI board with a Athlon 3000+ and a 512 stick of value Corsair RAM, PC3200. I have a boring 80GB Seagate SATA drive, but it does its job well.

I have it running at 250 fsb/htt, with a 4x htt multipler and a 9x cpu multipler for 2.25 Ghz. I have the RAM at a DDR333 divider, so it is like 415 Mhz which seesm to be fine.

Now, I began noticing that 3DMark, any version, gave me equal scores with and without such a BIOS overclock! (Even though my CPU sub-score goes up over a thousand points with it!) I noticed that while this overclock is in effect, my RAM scores in the nVidia benchmark utility are HALF what they are without the overclock! This certainly would cancel out the CPU increase, like 3DMark showed.

So I installed Sandra, and it brought more questions than answers! Here are my scores:

CPU Arithmetic: 13956
CPU Multi-Media: 44531
Memory: 5586
File System: 52185
Network/LAN: 196 (!!!!!)
Combined: 2822

Now, let me first point out that I have no idea what these numbers mean. However, on the pentagon-chart, the RAM comes up short and the networking score is a joke. I don't know if the SPU and hard drive are worse off than they should be, but if they are id doesn't look as major.

So uh... any ideas to start troubleshooting my RAM and network connection?

EDIT: The mystery of the network score was quickly solved. Apparently Sandra was testing by connecting to a wireless card in a laptop on my network. 802.11b isn't the Gigabit LAN I was expecting...

 

[dguy6789]

Take sandra scores with a grain of salt. Play your games and do whatever, if your pc is fast enough for it, dont worry what some benchmark says. If you want a benchmark to show off to your friends here you go:


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[MercenaryForHire]

Two horrible Sandra scores... why?

Because Sand isn't worth the time it takes to type the full name. 😉

- M4H

 

[Tyrant222]

ram score looks fine, its only 1 stick so no dual channel

 

[Robbidoo]

Well this proves something is amiss with my setup.

His scores:

CPU Arithmetic: 13956
CPU Multi-Media: 44531
Memory: 5586

My scores:

CPU Arithmetic: 10286
CPU Multi-Media: 34421

Also 3000+ on an A8N.

I am angry.

 

[MrControversial]

Sandra benchies suck. I use the 3DMarks and the PCMark because it lets me know what sucks about my setup.

 

[Plumcuda1]

where do you see these results? mine are more broken down ...

There is a dhrystone score ...Whetstone FPU and a Whetstone iSSE2 score ..
what am I missing here?

 

[Robbidoo]

These are from doing a "Combined performance Index Wizard" benchmark.

My Dhry is around 7600, Whet 5600

Still haven't worked out what's wrong.