Is this a low 3D Mark 06 score for a GTX?

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the Tom's Hardware community: where nearly two million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
Hmm I guess you do make a point, however what I don't understand is why people freak out over a low score without even trying games on it (Not talking necessarily about the OP, but in general, happens way too often around here), It's really annoying to say the least how every thread related to this usually has not done any further testing to their system other than this benchmark.
 


Like stated previously It is more then likely a CPU bottleneck....
my 8800GTS 640MB only scores me 5500+ marks, why because I only have an opty 148, (and my mobo doesn't support 16X lanes only 8X which is another huge bottleneck) before I upgraded video cards I had 1300+ marks LAWL. also nvidas GPUs are affected by cpu power the more CPU power a machine has the more power the GPU will be able to pump out.

and 3dmark06 is good for comparisons to previous results you have had, this gives a good bias for tweeks and such.
and as stated people need to get over the "my peinis is bigger than yours" if you can play your games at ~60 fps who cares.... a 60Hz monitor can only put out 60 fps max
 
I succesfully overclocked my E6600 to 3 GHz and re-ran 3D Mark 06. Here are my scores: -

3DMark Score 10930 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 5068 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 5075 Marks
CPU Score 2455 Marks

All I could say was "OMG!". Compare this to my initial (stock) speeds:-

3DMark Score 9853 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 4650 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 4867 Marks
CPU Score 1997 Marks
Reply With Quote