Hey people as you may know I have been doing some benchmarking lately and my scores for my Rig are ****. I have seen people with higher scores but lower PC specs, and im getting rather angry. Im not sure what is wrong. Even when I put my card on 500mhz/1ghz it dosent make any difference. Im using a 400watt generic PSU, and yes the video card is on its own molex cable. What the hell is going on?
I think you allready read the sticky about some tweakings in win XP, try to put it as ugly as possible...lol. I meant, set it to better performance, remove your drivers with Driver Cleaner and install them again, put your vga options like no aa/af, no vsync, better performance instead of quality and one thing that really works for me it's a ram recovery program, like memturbo. Close all the unneeded applications then make a scrub ram and try again. Maybe you can get some good points doing that.
And do you have a ram recovery program? One time i had a 5000(!) points boost by doing it. Because you have a good cpu, good ram...Try to see if you're facing some IRQ conflit or something.
errrr.... 46,212 im AM3 a LOW score? I think u may be askin a bit to much! I get about 41-42k with my system. I think yours is about right tbh. anyhow, its what its like in games that counts. Bechies are only an indication. btw, what is your 3dmark03 score?
I dont have 3dmark03 yet as I have 56k and cbf downloading. I might get some of it tonight. Ill do that mem recovery thing. See what it does eh?
Turn AA and AF to OFF|Image Settings to High Performance|Mipmaps to None|Vysnc to OFF|Overclock as much as possible (you knew that though) and remember the 1st thing to do is open up the msconfig utility and disable everything loading in the Start Up Folder. Reboot and try again. Also what are your memory Latency timings running @? From past experiences with Aquamark3 the WHQL 53.03 drv. worked best. Your CPU score should be around: 9800 to 10000 Your GFX score should be around: 7000 to 7400 putting you around 52000 I would think.
Bluedog you are a legend. My AM3 score rose to 50838 GFX = 7227 CPU = 8569 Maybe If I find that mip mapping it will go better. Where abouts is it? hrmmmm
Turn off everything including Norton and Soundmax even disconnect your Internet connection until submitting your score. Under the More Direct3D Tab you can set Mipmaps to the Lowest Level but it doesn't help that much, might even slow down a little bit. And nice increase so far and which drivers did you use or better yet post the link to your score. Don't forget to set it to be viewed as Public
Add the direct link to your AQM3 score kinda like I did mine below my sig. You can go back and submit the score. They are all saved in your My Documents Folder.
IMO, turning off AF in AQ3 is cheating, sure I can get in the 50K if I do that but so what the Bench is made to be run at 4xAF if you force it off it will give you an incorrect score. Hell I can break 51K if I turn off all the shaders and turn off AF set the LOD real low set for High performance, but it is still cheating.
yeah i dont see why ppl turn off things like that. those things are supposed to be on. they are part of the test. i just overclock and make tweaks to my OS, and run the bench at normal settings. then you get your true score.
It takes away the whole point of benchmarking, what's the point in getting the highest scores if your scores aren't even comparable to the mainstream? It's a waste of time. Your scores are fine, the people who have 20k 3dmark2k1 marks have much overclocked cpus with better fsb/memory speeds (IE: 2.4/2.6C p4s with 1ghz+ fsbs, or A64s)
No it's free. and guys it's benchmarking to see how high you can score @ the highest possible stable frame rate is all. I would gander to say that in AQM3 and Futuremark that probably 75% of the scores submitted are with the graphic cards control throttled down. How else would you explain the higher scores on like systems. and on a side note I leave the More Direct3D setting alone.
I agree, there is no point to benching if you are going to cheat, there is no difference between doing that and using SpeederXP.