I have a Problem, with my 3dMark scores.
 Ok, heres my Set-up,
Asus 980a Sli
AMD Phenom x4 2.3ghz ~ Been told it could be the reason for low performance.
GTX 480 Vanilla OC to 751/1501/1905
DDR2 Ocz Reaper 800mhz 5-5-5-15-24-2T 2x2Gbs
32'' LCD HDTV WestingHouse  1366x768 Native 16:9

 GTX 480 Oced 3dMark Vantage - Physx On

CPU: 31,780
GPU:   9,769

GTX 9800's SLI  OCed 3dMark Vantage - Physx On

CPU: 24,968
GPU:   7,768

 GTX 480 Oced 3dMark06 - Physx On

3dMark: 8,976
SM2.0: 2,955
SM3.0: 4,573
CPU: 2,847

GTX 9800's SLI  OCed 3dMark Vantage - Physx On

3dMark: 9,081
SM2.0: 3,088
SM3.0: 4,536
CPU: 2,867

Adding a NEW CPU and Ram this week end ~ Was told i should fix my low performance.

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4Ghz ~ Prob Oc to 4.0-4.1
RAM: G.Skill DDR2 1200 5-5-5-15 2x2Gbs


BFBC2 runs Max Setting 11-30 Fps DX11~ Might Reach 40's
CSS runs Max Setting 40-90 Fps DX9

Any advice would be helpful.

My CPU Cant Oc at all its Very unstable when OCing, And yea ill go do a 3dMark Vantage run with Physx Off.

Got my Card to Oc at 826/2008/1652 ran OC Scanner for 10mins and 0 ArtiFacts. This a Good Oc for a GTX 480 Vanilla?

Taking Another run at 3dMark Vantage with these Clocks.

And when im running my GTX 9800+ as a physx should i see it in Nvidia Control Panel or in my Device manager because with my 9800's it showed both and ask me to pick what one i want to dedicate to physx.

steelcowboy

Man you shoulda spent the money on a cpu not a video card.

Did Both CPU was Order Yesterday with 1200 DDR2 gaming Ram.

Yea, i was told i needed a Upgrade seeing my CPU is 3-4 Years old. And my Ram is Dumb and wont run 1066 with AM2 only with AM2+ CPUs

Look at this benchmark as the low cpu score did not keep the video card from doing it's job..

http://service.futuremark.com/resultComparison.action?compareResultId=1697570&compareResultType=19

GTX 480 In top slot PCI_x16_1
Slot 2 and 3 wont recognize the Card.

Getting 9023 GPU 29235 CPU in 3dMark Vantage Still not getting  A Overall 3dMark

Test BFBC2 at 750/1950/1501
DX11 All Settings Max AA 16xx AF 16xQ
1366x768 16:9 Native Resolution

Getting 11-30 might hit 40's Sever 32/32 ppl

Tried my HDMI 1920x1080i 30hz was Flickering alot so not using it

use Driver Sweeper and clean your drivers

What version of 3dMark Vantage are you running?  I didn't know they were up to build 1.02 until the night I installed my 2 x GTX 480's.  When I'd try to run it using build 1.01 of Vantage, it would do the first three tests fine, but lock up on the PhysX test if I had PhysX on.  Turn it off it would run fine.  Maybe patch Vantage to 1.02 if you haven't yet, if you have reinstall it.

Kram36 suggested this already, but clean out your previous drivers.  Do both an uninstall, and clean them with something like Driver Sweeper (I think you can still download it from Guru of 3D).

Anyway, Vantage is the only benchmark I've ran so far, but it runs fine for me, so past this I'm not sure what to suggest.

I Removed my drivers manually, ill try driver sweeper. My Mobo is  3 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (dual x16 or triple x8)

And my Monitor for some reason acts like it doesnt really support 1080i resolutions so ill just keep with my 1366:768 16:9 res for now.

  Are all the other gpu's removed besides the GTX480?

New 3d mark Scores, with my AMD PII x4 965 Oced to 4.0ghz
Looks like Cpu was a Big Factor in my BottleNecking

OLD Scores Performance Settings 1366x768

http://i98.photobucket.co...0PhysxOn-NewDriver.jpg

New Scores Performance Settings 1366x768

http://i98.photobucket.co...X480Physx965-40ghz.jpg

Awesome, glad we got to the bottom of it.   But ya these cards need CPU cycles, plain and simple.  You can't double/triple/quadruple performance from previous gen cards and expect a slower CPU from 2-3 years ago to be sufficient.  Even now I have a feeling current i7's aren't enough to push Quad CF or Quad SLI which is part of the reason we see such poor scaling right now.