Terrible Cpu Benchmarks
DiscoZombie
Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18951Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">why god why?</div> K I just ran 3DMark03 on my new computer, athelon 64 (running at 2k ghz), 1 gig mem, Radeon 9600 pro... and the vid card did fine, but the CPU did HORRIBLY. 190 CPUmarks. I compared it to other people's with the same setup, and they got around 700 CPUmarks... so my CPU is performing about 1/4 as well as it should... I've noticed poor performance in some games too, and I was wondering where the bottleneck was...
anyone have any clue how I could troubleshoot what's wrong?
anyone have any clue how I could troubleshoot what's wrong?
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Also are you running your ram in sync or out of sync with the processor (same frequency, I.E. bus speed, is your bus speed the sam as the ram speed?)
as for your Q, MonsE, I have no clue -- all I know is I just downloaded 3DMark today so it's the latest version, and according to the comparisons they let you do online, everyone else with my configuration who has run the test has had CPU scores about 4 times higher than mine... and during the CPU test, my FPS slowed down to... 1 FPS or less =P
old games like Freespace 2 even slow down on this machine... and NS runs at 40 fps... and actually, while I'm on the subject, HL crashes whenever I try to run it in either OpenGL mode OR Direct3D... only way I could get the game to run has been to use some program I found called DirectGL, which I believe uses Direct3D to emulate OpenGL... that may or may not be a separate problem...
as for your Q, MonsE, I have no clue -- all I know is I just downloaded 3DMark today so it's the latest version, and according to the comparisons they let you do online, everyone else with my configuration who has run the test has had CPU scores about 4 times higher than mine... and during the CPU test, my FPS slowed down to... 1 FPS or less =P
old games like Freespace 2 even slow down on this machine... and NS runs at 40 fps... and actually, while I'm on the subject, HL crashes whenever I try to run it in either OpenGL mode OR Direct3D... only way I could get the game to run has been to use some program I found called DirectGL, which I believe uses Direct3D to emulate OpenGL... that may or may not be a separate problem... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If you go into bios you should see somewhere your CPU's frequency and a multiplier. The CPu frequency times 2 is your front speed bus. There should also be a RAM frequency displayed during post, that should be set to the same as your FSB.
Otto: I searched everything in my BIOS and read everything at post, and I can't see what you're talking about... wish I wasn't such a nub... what's an example of a front bus speed, so I know what the number I'm looking for looks like?
bah...
Otto: I searched everything in my BIOS and read everything at post, and I can't see what you're talking about... wish I wasn't such a nub... what's an example of a front bus speed, so I know what the number I'm looking for looks like?
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Ok this might be a bit different seeing as I'm on an A7N8X Deluxe but here goes
In Bios:
Go to advanced > Advanced chipset features
CPU External Frequency - 2 times this is your bus speed
CPU Frequency multiple - This number times the external frequency is your megahertz
I'm not sure if its the same but to access ram frequency and timings I have to set the following to aggressive or user defined
System Performance
CPU Interface
Memory Frequency - Whatever your bus speed youve determined to be you should make it the same, usually BY SPD sets it the same, if not see if theres a Sync option, otherwise you may have to manually set it by the percents.
Memory Timing - Uh.. since you said youre a nub I wouldnt recommend touching this but if you ever want to get a bit more performance google around or ask me or anyone else about this
Other things to check for (still under advanced chipset):
Graphics Aperature Size: Whatever mb your card is, mnost likely 128, make sure its set.
AGP Frequency: IF YOU CHANGE BUS SPEED SET THIS TO 66!!!! From what I hear 66 is pretty much the default, and a lot of the time by messing with bus speed it actually changed the AGP frequency, which can result in frying the card / unstability.
what BIOS settings have the potential to damage your CPU? just so I know, so I know if I stupidly touched them at some point... if the CPU was damaged, would the computer work at all, or is it an all-or-nothing thing and the machine wouldn't boot?
As with everything i type, this is probably wrong. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
All i could suggest is trawl through the net looking to update your OS and other things to the newest version and try to get all the latest drivers for your gfx card, etc. Also, are all the other tests done with the same video card, or just CPU?
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The answer to that is new drivers, I had the same problem and new set of drivers cleared everything up. But that probably <i>IS</i> a seperate problem, though It could effect your video performance.
well as far as windowsupdate goes, god knows my OS is updated... and vid drivers too... flashed BIOS... there's no drivers associated with processors right? I haven't been to the AMD site yet, actually...
the benchmark regimen runs 3 or 4 accelerated benchmarks, and then 2 that I assume bypass the graphics acceleration to see how well your processor does without it, and that's where I start getting like 1 frame every 5 seconds and the terrible score...
IS there a chance my chip is somehow damaged?