Low score 3dmark06, OC advice?

[Squeetard]

TRY RUNNING THE RAM YOU HAVE AT 4-4-4-15

oops caps sry

[donimo]

how much is he gonna get from that though? I o/c'd my cpu from 2.6-3.4, and my gpu from 625/1800 to 690/2380 and it only went up about a thousand points...

[Squeetard]

not much, just no point in buying 4-4-4-12 800mhz ram if yours will do it already.

[Frank Encruncher]

Originally Posted by aviduser

System is as follows8

Phenom II 940 (37405mhz) stock voltage Idle: 30C, Load: 45C
Stock HSF
Corsair 850tx
Msi K9a2 Platinum
(3x1gb) kingston ram, (1x2gb hynix) (oem kinda ram)
Diamond Hd4850 (core 690, memory 1188)


Fsb is at (227x15), Ram is running at 1:2. Haven't done anything to ram timings/voltage. I ran prime95 last night for 10hrs with no problems.

I get about 12500 pts in 3dmark06, which isn't terrible but theres phenom 1's that are clocked lower and get a better score.

If I can't really tweak anything maybe ill try running the processor stock.

You got CPU(3740) and ram(908) speed up, there is a few more tweaks you can do

Run the memory with Ganged Mode disabled, it will run two 64bit channels instead of one 128bit channel

Northbridge speed can be increased by bumping up the multi
The NB speed also controls the L3 cache speed
Upto 2400 is usually pretty stable, 2400-2750 gets tricky
You'll probably have to increase CPU-NB voltage(mines at 1.3v)

Increasing the speed of HyperTransport link will also help
HTT should never be faster then the NB speed

Increasing the PCI-E speed can help sometimes(bump up a little bit at a time)
Warning some hardware may not like the increase

Good Luck

[aviduser]

Update

Got the processor up to 3.5 ghz, (226x15.5), changed the ram speed to 5-5-5-15, and ended up with 14008 3dmarks.

In between that I added another 4850 and got 17000 3dmarks, but due to ati's crappy drivers I returned it.

Going to upgrade to a new cpu cooler and some good ram in the meantime.

*Typo, the cpu speed was actually 3405.


Thanks for the help everyone.

[Squeetard]

Hey! Good work Aviduser. 14000 3dmarks will play most anything.