Benchmark seems VERY low

[a-fogle]

I appreciate all of the suggestions ^^. Unfortunately, I am currently on a tight budget but I'll DEFINITELY be in the market soon. I'm fed up with not having the gaming experience I want, plus I like having the newest in tech. And I completely agree on the CPU raping the GTX 275. Good price for the video card, but I think I'll still return it... got bills to pay lol. Such a downer knowing no matter what I buy, the CPU is my ultimate nemesis here.

 

[a-fogle]

So my buddy with the 3Ghz Athlon x2 6000+ and GTX 285, just ran 3dMark on his 26'' monitor on same settings and scored an 11,500. If my CPU is bottlenecking, his definitely should. I just bought my CPU exactly 2 years ago (give or take a week or two) and he upgraded maybe a year ago. Also he ran his test with only 4GB ram, if it matters. And again his mobo is basically the same edition. So his comp with a CPU and mobo both the step right below mine, and just a lot better graphics card, scored over 4000 more marks................??

 

[theholylancer]

hmm well the 285 is definitely more powerful,

try to run the test with 4 GB ram your self, maybe the mobo isn't liking that?

 

[JDFan]

So my buddy with the 3Ghz Athlon x2 6000+ and GTX 285, just ran 3dMark on his 26'' monitor on same settings and scored an 11,500. If my CPU is bottlenecking, his definitely should. I just bought my CPU exactly 2 years ago (give or take a week or two) and he upgraded maybe a year ago. Also he ran his test with only 4GB ram, if it matters. And again his mobo is basically the same edition. So his comp with a CPU and mobo both the step right below mine, and just a lot better graphics card, scored over 4000 more marks................??

The 285 is quite a bit faster than the 275 so even with the bottleneck caused by the CPU will score higher in the synthetic benchmarks - even though in actual game performance you'd both probably get close to the same performance since your CPU is a bit better and will let your 275 perform closer to it's capability. Either way though the scores you are getting are pretty low - Here's my Phenom II X3 720 (unlocked to an X4 and OC'd to 3.2 GHz.) with a 5770 GPU results -

SO with a better CPU your scores will definitely improve (since the 5770 should be slightly under the 275 in performance)

 

[a-fogle]

I agree that my score is pretty low. I don't understand how a comparable system could possibly outscore mine by 4000. I don't know if I have a motherboard issue or what, but something doesn't make sense.

 

[JDFan]

I agree that my score is pretty low. I don't understand how a comparable system could possibly outscore mine by 4000. I don't know if I have a motherboard issue or what, but something doesn't make sense.

What is the breakdown of the scores on the 2 systems and which scores vary ? - that should give you an idea of where to look for the cause !

 

[a-fogle]

I guess I didn't really ask for a breakdown. I do know that his CPU scored 2900 something and mine scores around 2250. No way his CPU should outscore mine at stock settings.

 

[JDFan]

I guess I didn't really ask for a breakdown. I do know that his CPU scored 2900 something and mine scores around 2250. No way his CPU should outscore mine at stock settings.

Well if his CPU is outscoring yours are there any background processes running that might be interfering with the benchmark performance while it is running (figure any background app might be using system processes and slowing the benchmark.)

 

[a-fogle]

I know this is quite late for a reply, but I mentioned discovering an issue where my motherboard and OS will not recognize my full 8GB memory. All sticks tested full capacity individually. I submitted a ticket to AsusTek and one of the reps suggested my CPU's memory controller may be faulty and using some RAM for extra cache. Not sure how common of an issue this is, but if it's the case, glad to see I have a POS CPU lol

 

[theholylancer]

Ummm well since A64s did have the memory controller on board...

it is possible or maybe the mobo vender is not pushing out better bioses

I know for a fact that when the i7-900s released, most new X58 mobos had issues, minor or major, in supporting populating all 6 banks of ram and going with a 12 GB system.

that was fixed when they got a few new bios out the gate and everything is fine out.

granted since your rig is old, maybe it is simply failing controller in the CPU...

 

[megamanx00]

That sounds strange. It would be pretty weird, but I suppose it's possible. Your CPU may just have had it's last hura 😀. Still, if that were the case you would not have the full 4GB on each stick when you tested them individually. Still, that could simply point to a problem with the memory controller running things in dual channel mode. You either have a defective board, or a defective CPU. I don't suppose you have another board or CPU lying around to test em. Anyway, try running the memory in single channel mode and see if that does anything for now.