6800GT Overclocking Question

[minidiscuser]

I recently purchased an eVGA 6800GT and have it overclocked to 418/1.14 and my 3DMark03 scores are generally in the low 11,000's. I have an Athlon64 3200+ @2.53. I have seen people with slower CPU clocks and similar GPU clocks with significantly higher scores. Is my bottleneck my ram, only 1 GB @3200? Or so scores vary that much dependent on individual processors? Thanks a lot.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Drivers, settings, ram timings, chipset, stability of the overclock, heat issues, all factor in. Your score is high enough to reflect that you have a very playable setup so forget about 3DMock and get gaming already

 

[minidiscuser]

Thanks for the quick reply. I was thinking the same thing myself, but it anytime I run one of the cursed benchmarking programs, I become a little down and begin my quest to tweak my system more.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Bah! that's silly. There are so many tweaks some use to get better 3Dmock scores that it's pointless to compare to them. Besides, I didn't buy a BFG GT OC just to turn on the looks like crap settings you have to use for high 3Dmocks

 

[Bumrush99]

To get an accurate score make sure of these things:

Make sure you have installed you mobo/agp drivers
Got to the Nvidia control panel and force AA/AF off
Set quality settings to high performance
Make sure vsync is off.

Run 3dmark again and tell me your score. Should be around 13k