I dont get it why my score soo low.

[pumaking]

I just recently picked up a 8800GT seeing all the great benchmarks and praise. At $250 I said why not pick up a little gift for myself.

Well it came today a PNY 8800GT bone stock. My previous graphics card is a EVGA 8800GTS 320mb Stock settings but also overclocked later on.

Anyways with the 8800GTS overclocked to 640 Core, 1700mhz. I got 8500 3dMark06 score with 2.3GHZ AMD 4200+ and 1GB of DDR2 800. With Stock settings I got 6600 score.


With the 8800GT I cant get it any higher than 6300, thats also overclocking the 8800GT to a 720 core and 2000 memory and overclocking the system to 2.5ghz AMD 4200+.

No matter what I did the 8800GT wouldnt get pass 6300. When I tried different clocking speeds and stock speeds I got 6000-6200.



Could it possibly be that the GPU is bottlenecked severly? I'm gonna try the beta driver see if that helps.

My setup:
ASUS Crosshair motherboard
AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 65w
1GB G. SKill PC6400 DDR2 800mhz @ 2.1volts 4-4-4-12
Antec 900 Case
Antec True Power Trio 650w.
Windows XP Pro SP2 32bit.
Seagate 160GB 8mb cache 7200 SATA 3GB/S
Western Digital 200GB 7200 PATA External

I plan on upgrading to the AMD 6400+ 3.2ghz Black Edition and picking up 2 more 1GB sticks of G.Skill ram since they are $30. Also I'd like to SLI the 8800GT.


Any Help is appreciated.


3dMark06 Comparison.

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/m...=Puma+Different+GPU&k=14&s=1&l=1&c=1206335786

 

[meanman]

its not just the video card you have to take into acount the amount of memory and the cpu will contribute to the score, i got around 12000 on 3dmark 06 look at my sig you will see what i mean,
i wouldnt worry to much the best way to benchmark your card is to play some games and see how it goes.