e-GeForce 8800 GTX - 3DMark 06 - Low Score

Hi,

Looking for help identifying the weak link here. I know it's not the card that is giving me poor scores and alternatively real bad FPS in BF2142.

Here are the details on my machine:
MoBo - ASUS A8N-SLI DLX
Chip - AMD Athlon 4200+ Dual Core (Manchester)
Pwr Supp - Antec Neo 550w
Ram - Corsair - 2 Gig matched Cas 2 Latency DDR400 Mhz
Drives - 2x 10k RPM Sata Drives on RAID 0
evga 8800 gtx with new Alienware 96.89 forceware driver

And the 3DMark 06 score:
http://momentoffame.com/photopost/data/515/3dmark_score.jpg

My hunch is the memory is the problem??

Thanks for the input.

 

Greetings and welcome to MajorGeeks!

From the look of things, the cpu is now your bottleneck.

You did install the latest and greatest drivers from the Nvidia website, and not use the cd driver that came with the card?

link:
http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/97.02/97.02_forceware_winxp_english.exe

And, ye are using the latest version of 3dmark 06 version 1.1.0:
http://majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4935

In addition, ya might want to turn off ALL scanners, I.E. : Antivirus, spysweeper, or other automatic scanners, or defraggers, like diskeeper. These can slow down a system, when running benchmarks.

 

Hi, thanks for the info.

I read somewhere else that the power supply could be the issue. With that card and a total of 4 hard drives, dvd drive, 2 gigs ram, usb mouse, usb keyboard, usb hub....could it be the card is underpowered?

Seems to me if it were my system would hang. From past experiences a low powererd system would be very unstable.

 

From your post, you only had 2 hard drives. Typically hard drive only take about 30+ watts.

Is the video card using the same cable, as the drives? Or, are ye using a different cable?

 

you may be just over the edge; not enough to cause instablilty during normal computing but when the games start thrashing ur card it may be underpowered. you mentioned that its an alienware? did you buy this card as an upgrade separate from the system? if so, the PSU is most likely the culprit here; the 8800 series cards use SOOOO much power