Weird problem

[Don66]

I just got an Abit IS7-E
and also have a 2.8c with Geil GD pc3500 ddr, and 9700pro.

It doesn't matter if I O/C to 3.5GHz, or leave the system default.
I get the same scores benchmarking the system.
around 5100 3dmarks 2003 around 16500 3dmarks 2001.

Shouldn't my scores go up the faster I run my system?

It's very strange, doesn't matter if I O/C or not.

Is my video card holding me back?

I did a fresh install of XP sp1.

Should I try another clean install?

 

[Sabreguy]

Just curious, how much ram do you have? 256? 512? 1gb?

 

[Don66]

1GB of Dual channel.

 

[Sabreguy]

Well Ram was my only guess, but since you have 1gb, that shouldn't be the case.

I'll hand this off to the more knowledgable experts.

 

[Shimmishim]

have you tried disabling HT?

i knwo this sounds weird but try disabling HT and giving it a go at your benchies...



i had the same problem as well with win2kpro

for some reason when i benchmarked anything, only 50% of my cpu would be used...

after disabling HT.... i saw my pcmark score go from 6300 to 8600

and my 3dmark2k1 score go from 14K to 15.2K

(this is from a 2.5 ghz amd processor to a 3.5 ghz P4)


but before i had HT enabled my scores were on par, if not worse than my 2.5 ghz amd...