Other Terrible 3DMark 11 results - Is this normal?

Ok, well it was fiddling around with the resolution that was giving me a score of zero. I just ran 3DMark 11 @ Extreme settings (didn't fiddle with anything else) and this is what I got:

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/568513

Not quite sure why it shows the stock clock speeds of my CPU and Ram though. Both the BIOS and CPU-Z would beg to differ.

 

I've noticed that with a lot of graphics card's benchmarks, where they only compare with visual features that all graphics cards can produce, which is important but i'd also like to see how newer cards can handle in game physx, apex and cuda or gpgpu calculations as I'll most likely want to use them when playing games. Wouldn't hurt to put an extra set of graphs for that.

 

Even system properties shows stock speeds in windows, must be hard coded into the chip or it's getting it's figures from windows.

 

3dmarks are terrible at getting correct speeds for cpu/gpu
physx is off in official competitions etc, so if you want to show off/compare, always turn it off.

 

Then again, that's a matter of "how all hardware sites run the benchmarks in their reviews" rather than "how should I check my system performance".

Personally I fail to give a **** about PhysX so thus far I'm happy with how things are going. Also when comparing AMD and Nvidia the reason for disabling Physx is even more obvious..

 

Good point, Starting a new thread......

 

Just ran Vantage again at extreme settings and got X29920 points.

 

That sounds OK?

 

Yeh I think that's a decent score.

The problems I was having were just due to the fact that I was setting the resolution to that which is native of my monitor.

 

This is mine running std clock,crossfire 5850 not clocked. p6359
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/575504

 

I haven't tried running 3DMark11 since installing the new drivers, but I can say that there was a problem with SLI support.