Why is my GTX benchmarking lower

[heartofalion28]

Alright i had my BFG 7800GTX OC at 510/1390 and here is a screenshot of my scores. Now looking at other scored my vid scores seem lowers than that of a regular old Gt. Does anyone know why? Can anyone help me?

Lion

 

[Fadey]

those scores r normal..

 

[Wall7486]

edit* nm i see your rig on the screenshot

 

[Crescent13]

WOW. I get like 4200 with my GT, of course, I have a FX-57 equivalent, and you have intel crap, so I suppose that's about normal. (no offense to you)

EDIT: and only a gig of ram doesn't help much either.

 

[Ronin]

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[heartofalion28]

see on other forums i am seeing gt's scoring just as i do. I am not talking about the overall score. I am talking about my graphics score and by the looks of other GT's they are scoring sometimes 100 or more over me.

Lion

 

[Wall7486]

On the other forums are the other people using Intel or AMD? it makes a slight difference.

 

[heartofalion28]

ok check this here is this person setup

7800 GT
2.8 Pentium 4 LGA 775
Generic Mini ATX mobo (CPU and mobo came with HP retail computer)
Aspire 500W PSU (but.. its so shiny) :
1 gig of Corsair value ram

and then thier score

and another with a GT yea he has an opeteron but look at the scores on the shader tests

 

[yacoub]

Yes, you're coming up about 250-300 points short on the SM3.0 tests. I wonder though if any of that is CPU related or not. Since your CPU is clearly not measuring up to the Opteron guy's score of 1600-something.

 

[heartofalion28]

yea i mean dont get me wrong this thing blows me 6200 out of the water but i just want to get the performance i payed for

Lion

 

[gobucks]

the 3GHz P4 is definitely a bottleneck. The P4 is not particularly good in games, especially at such a low speed. Have you tried OCing it? Depending on the core, you might be able to get it up to 3.6GHz or so, which would help to avoid the CPU-limiting effect you're seeing.

 

[Arkane13131]

3dmark06 is highly influenced by dual core.
A dual core vs a single core can actually add 1000points or so.

aside from that CPU plays a much bigger role than alot of people think in giving the graphics card the juice it needs.

I broke 6300 with my rig which has "Only a gig of ram". But I have a 7900gt OC'd to GTX speeds and a 3800+ x-2 OC'd to 4600+ speeds.

Also check your driver settings. High quality or AA or AF being enabled will lower your scores. Also be sure to set them to 3dmark06 in the profile menu.

 

[Arkane13131]

also I see older versions of forceware on your desktop. If you are running 64bit windows you can download 84.24 drivers from guru3d.com
otherwise go get the 84.43 beta drivers from nvidia.com

 

[quattro1]

All this over a 3DMark06 score? Wow....

 

[BlacKJesuS]

Originally posted by: quattro1
All this over a 3DMark06 score? Wow....

ever thought about how much money he paid for his setup ;-)

 

[AzNPinkTuv]

Originally posted by: quattro1
All this over a 3DMark06 score? Wow....

more like all this for listening to guys on forums ehhe

 

[toyota]

are you sure all the other scores you are looking at were at 1280x1024 like yours??