CPU score in 3dmark 06 wildly changing?

[Mr Fujisawa]

i keep getting scores between 1700 to over 2000. im on a 4800+ running at 2.64ghz so i should be getting scores over 2000, and yet i keep getting really low scores, ive only once got over 2000 but the majority are 1700-1800

whats going on here! even clocking to 2.7ghz i still get under 1800, and i ran the test 3 times to be sure.

is there something running thats killing my cpu? or what is going on. the gfx tests are always within a few points of each other

[anticitizenzero]

Normally I would say its your ram but judging by the kind your running i'd rule that out. I had a similar problem with my old p4 and it was the cheap ram that was causing it, check your cooling as well, are you running prime95 stable for long periods?

[Buenamos]

Faulty Power supply?

[TierMann]

On my first run with 82.65 drivers I scored in the 1500's for CPU and the second run with 81.98 I scored 1700. *shrug*

3dmark06 just doesn't seem very accurate for me either.

[Wolfhound]

I found that 3DMark 06 tends to give wildly results, so I dismiss it as valid benchmark, at least until they launch a second revision or a patch.