too low

[baracus]

hi my score is adressed or classified by the benchmark program tool as "too low"

does this mean that similar systems with similar hardware usually gets a higher score?

what can the reasons be?

i have a new pc - just bought the thing and installed win xp and all hardware drivers. not changed any hardware, no overclocking or over-anything done. not changed any settings for the graphics card, it is all default. so i cant imagine why is too slow.

[Jarnis]

The PC Health Check is still beta and should not be taken as absolute final word. What it does is it compares your score to the average score from users of exact same hardware components.

Depending on the exact configuration, a large number of overclocked results may slightly skew that upwards so depending on how large the difference is, it may be still fairly normal.

But in any case it might be worth investigating if everything with the system is in order.

You could post a link to your result and ask from the community if they spot anything unusual.

You could also verify such basic things as "is the video card PCIE slot actually running 16x" and "is my memory properly configured for dual channel" (or triple channel, if X58-based board) and "are all drivers for the motherboard and all components properly installed" etc.

[baracus]

hey thanks

i made sure the drivers are all installed ok

where can i check about the memory and graphic card (x16) ? that you mention

here is my results from 3dmark06: do you mean this ?
btw i bought the pc for quite cheap, it was 150 euro (exclude only the graphic card) so maybe they used cheap parts for it

2048 MB DDR3 @ 667 MHz
ati 5570 (ddr2 version)
dual core x2 250


4715 3DMarks
SM2.0 Score 1628
HDR/SM3.0 Score 1977
CPU Score 2559
GT1 - Return To Proxycon12 FPS
GT2 - Firefly Forest14 FPS
CPU2 - Red Valley1 FPS
HDR1 - Canyon Flight19 FPS
HDR2 - Deep Freeze20 FPS


Overall Score 4715 6700
SM2 Score 1628 2500
SM3 Score 1977 3000
CPU Score 2559 2300

[Jarnis]

Could you just post link to the result, would make it easier...

But even without that, one problem could be the DDR2 version of HD 5570 - unfortunately the service cannot tell apart DDR2 and GDDR3 versions of HD 5570 (to it they appear identical) and the DDR2 version obviously has considerably worse performance than the GDDR3 version. So PC Health Check compares your result to the most common result which in this case would be the GDDR3-based HD 5570 and... surprise... it thinks your score is too low.

[baracus]

oh i see, that fact + the fact u mention too that the program probably does not recognize overclocking as well (i am guessing) would explain it well!?

so pc health check is the tool that 3dmark 06 forwards the resutls to to work and compare with ? so its actually 2 tools working together?

can you estimate by what factor the ddr2 is slower than the ddr ? (like 30% slower?)

i will have to run the 3dmark again to get a http link
will check soon