Low 3DMark06 score.

I am getting under 6000 from a

Q6600

4GB RAM

HD 3870 in Crossfire

I ran the benchmark a couple of weeks ago and was getting 12000 from this same setup with no changes.

I was doing it because I was going to fool around with over clocking, but now I need to find out what is making the score so low.

You guys got any suggestions on how to check what is wrong?

My game performance does seem low.

I loaded Vanguard and that thing was lagging, and I heard it doesn't lag that much now.

The score is just a gauge, it shows something ain't right.

If your running 32Bit that's probably the problem right there.zaku101

Windows Vista 64-Bit

Physically nothing changes since the last benchmark.

4GB is plenty.

Something is failing, but I don't have a clue what it is.

Have you looked in device manager for conflicts?

How about reinstalling drivers?

You said you were overclocking did you try resetting everything back to its defaults and running 3dMark?

I rebooted it a few times, and it is back to normal.

There must have been something running in the background.

Whatever it was it was killing my score.

but you could have more ram with 64-bit :O and thats a need.Poster_11

your score won't change on 3dmark 06 with 4 gigs over 2 gigs, well atleast mine didn't.

Check nothing was running/taking up the CPU.

Crossfire is enabled, etc, check clock speeds of your CPU and graphics cards.

EDIT: Looks like something was running in the background :D. Glad you fixed it. :).