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hey guys, i'll post the screenshots. i don't run my pc that hard all the time. i need a psu upgrade and with the temps in cape town recently, oc is dangerous business! :) besides, at stock i get all the performance i need.
what i want to know is, if molean has a oc'ed 8400 @ 3.6 coupled with a gtx 295, that's a pretty spectacular combo, right? what then are the guys running that score 25000 plus in 3dmark? those must be insane systems.
even if you add a second 295, that will only add about 30% to your performance. madness, but i'll have one! :mrgreen:
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rautie wrote:hey guys, i'll post the screenshots. i don't run my pc that hard all the time. i need a psu upgrade and with the temps in cape town recently, oc is dangerous business! :) besides, at stock i get all the performance i need.
what i want to know is, if molean has a oc'ed 8400 @ 3.6 coupled with a gtx 295, that's a pretty spectacular combo, right? what then are the guys running that score 25000 plus in 3dmark? those must be insane systems.
even if you add a second 295, that will only add about 30% to your performance. madness, but i'll have one! :mrgreen:
Yeah, please post some screenies.
They are running High-end Quad Cores and Intels latest i7 CPU's :)
I agree quad 295's is overkill, but if you got the dosh....why not :D
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So after a bit of fiddling last night I got to here :)
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Very Nicely done, although I'm sure you're thirsting for 4GHz as you're almost there :(
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Thanks :) and yes I am very thirsty for that 4Ghz mark.....I'll try get there tonight :) Wanna try get 20k in 3Dmark aswell.
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Well, upgraded to the new AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE (from Phenom 9950 BE), and must say that I'm very pleased with it. Somehow however cannot get it to run at more that 3.5 GHz, but I gues that's sufficient

There was a nice improvement to the 3DMark 06 score (from 14800 something to nearly 17600)

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@ GuntherHanne - Is that score with your CPU @3.5Ghz and a pair of 280.s SLI'd?
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Also saw that - if it is, methinks your SLI is disabled or drivers are crippled.
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@ Molean i dont think it'll be that much of a difference if you had a quad or a e8400? i could be wrong but my old phenom 9600 gets its a s s handed to it by this e8200 (tho i could only get the quad to 2.8 )
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Molean wrote:@ GuntherHanne - Is that score with your CPU @3.5Ghz and a pair of 280.s SLI'd?
UrBaN wrote:Also saw that - if it is, methinks your SLI is disabled or drivers are crippled.
That's right, CPU at 3.5 and GPU's in SLi - so 17600 a bit low? Thanks for that, Molean & UrBaN, but to be honest, I did expect the score to be higher than that myself, especially after a Vantage score of 21625. What, in your opinions, should a reasonable 06 score be with this setup? Also, what could be the cause of such a low score? SLi is definitely enabled, and for "crippled drivers"? How will I be able to check and which drivers? Or what else could be the cause? :?: :?
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GuntherHanne wrote:
Molean wrote:@ GuntherHanne - Is that score with your CPU @3.5Ghz and a pair of 280.s SLI'd?
UrBaN wrote:Also saw that - if it is, methinks your SLI is disabled or drivers are crippled.
That's right, CPU at 3.5 and GPU's in SLi - so 17600 a bit low? Thanks for that, Molean & UrBaN, but to be honest, I did expect the score to be higher than that myself, especially after a Vantage score of 21625. What, in your opinions, should a reasonable 06 score be with this setup? Also, what could be the cause of such a low score? SLi is definitely enabled, and for "crippled drivers"? How will I be able to check and which drivers? Or what else could be the cause? :?: :?
Yes, that score is definitely too low for that setup. You should be getting in the 20k mark in 06 I would say, maybe even higher. A pair of 280.s SLIed is basically my card and you have a quad at 3.5 (400 less than my OC) and you are getting 17600 :? Something aint right. What drivers are you using?

@ Bravestarr - You'd be surprised, 3Dmark06 loves quad CPU's.
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Molean wrote:
GuntherHanne wrote:
Molean wrote:@ GuntherHanne - Is that score with your CPU @3.5Ghz and a pair of 280.s SLI'd?
UrBaN wrote:Also saw that - if it is, methinks your SLI is disabled or drivers are crippled.
That's right, CPU at 3.5 and GPU's in SLi - so 17600 a bit low? Thanks for that, Molean & UrBaN, but to be honest, I did expect the score to be higher than that myself, especially after a Vantage score of 21625. What, in your opinions, should a reasonable 06 score be with this setup? Also, what could be the cause of such a low score? SLi is definitely enabled, and for "crippled drivers"? How will I be able to check and which drivers? Or what else could be the cause? :?: :?
Yes, that score is definitely too low for that setup. You should be getting in the 20k mark in 06 I would say, maybe even higher. A pair of 280.s SLIed is basically my card and you have a quad at 3.5 (400 less than my OC) and you are getting 17600 :? Something aint right. What drivers are you using?

@ Bravestarr - You'd be surprised, 3Dmark06 loves quad CPU's.
I am using the latest official Nvidia drivers, 181.22

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Hmm that is strange :?
What have you got your GFX settings set to? and have you got Vertical Sync off when you bench?
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Molean wrote:Hmm that is strange :?
What have you got your GFX settings set to? and have you got Vertical Sync off when you bench?
Molean, vertical sync is off as standard setting (but I haven't actually checked that for benching)

My graphic cards are running at:

GPU Clock - 648 (stock 602)
Memory - 1215 (2430) (stock 1107 (2214))
Shader - 1395 (stock 1296)

and they are SLi'd

And as mentioned previously, my CPU is running at standard voltage of 1.35 V and at 3.516 MHz (200 x 17.5)

As I'm running my ram at 1066 MHz, I cannot increase the FSB of 200, that will crash my system straight away

So, ya, don't know why the score should be that low

And strangely enough, my 3DMark Vantage score is sitting at 21625 (or is that also too low) with GPU score at 18738 and CPU score at 40208
To me that seems quite decent (or am I mistaken there too)??
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GuntherHanne wrote:
Molean wrote:Hmm that is strange :?
What have you got your GFX settings set to? and have you got Vertical Sync off when you bench?
Molean, vertical sync is off as standard setting (but I haven't actually checked that for benching)

My graphic cards are running at:

GPU Clock - 648 (stock 602)
Memory - 1215 (2430) (stock 1107 (2214))
Shader - 1395 (stock 1296)

and they are SLi'd

And as mentioned previously, my CPU is running at standard voltage of 1.35 V and at 3.516 MHz (200 x 17.5)

As I'm running my ram at 1066 MHz, I cannot increase the FSB of 200, that will crash my system straight away

So, ya, don't know why the score should be that low

And strangely enough, my 3DMark Vantage score is sitting at 21625 (or is that also too low) with GPU score at 18738 and CPU score at 40208
To me that seems quite decent (or am I mistaken there too)??
Hmm I normally have to change my V-Sync manually. I put it on when playing games and off to bench.

Maybe try reinstall 06? What version are you using?

My Vantage Score is 11767(GFX:16913 CPU:6053) at stock and 20195(GFX:17742 CPU:34509) with my CPU @3.6ghz.
So that Vantage score is low too :?

New Drivers were released yesterday, 182.06. Still need to bench with them to see if theres any difference. But maybe give those a try.
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GuntherHanne, make sure AA and AF are forced off and your detail is set to performance. Also you can try changing SLI to different modes (AFR, AFR2, SFR, etc) and see if it makes a difference. Also rename 3dmark06.exe to something else, it forces it to run unoptimized which sometimes actually yields a performance increase.
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Hex_Rated wrote:GuntherHanne, make sure AA and AF are forced off and your detail is set to performance. Also you can try changing SLI to different modes (AFR, AFR2, SFR, etc) and see if it makes a difference. Also rename 3dmark06.exe to something else, it forces it to run unoptimized which sometimes actually yields a performance increase.
Are you suppose to set it to performance when benching? I run mine on High Quality.
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It's debatable. But what the record holders do is set it to the lowest (as a standard) because there is no way to actually check and stop people from using the lowest detail settings and kick them out of the record books. So people drop it to the quickest, apparently some of the records are even done with artefact ridden screens and forced LOD values of like +10 etc. Just for the last tiny push

In reality it's probably only a few hundred pts, but there could be some strange problem causing a really low score with his system.
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Well Dave (Prime) Just benched and his score dropped from 13k odd to about 7k...not discernible reason either, he simply transferred hardware to a new case and OCd the CPU a little, but kept it within normal temps.

Maybe there are driver issues with 9.1
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Ok Prime reinstalled Catalyst and problemo fixed :)
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And strangely enough, my 3DMark Vantage score is sitting at 21625 (or is that also too low) with GPU score at 18738 and CPU score at 40208
To me that seems quite decent (or am I mistaken there too)??
You guys need to understand one thing here. Guntherhann, you CPU score is very high and I think it might be because you have Physx enabled. I stand to be corrected. You'll need to disable Physx to see your system's true speed compared to other's

Same with your Vantage result Molean, you also have Physx enabled which is why the GFX takes away most of the work load from the CPU in the CPU test giving you an unreal reflection of true CPU performance.

Just my opinion. But I know that if you enable Physx and try to submit your result to Hwbot it will not be accepted.

The other thing to keep in mind regarding Guntherhann's 3dmark06 result is the fact that when running SLI it will affect your CPU score, and ultimately decrease your overall performance, even more so when running Windows Vista. Guntherhann, looking at your HDR (SM3.0) marks for 3dmark06 I would say that you are running SLI. Your overclock on the graphics is not that high, and myself running my GTX280 at 740 core and 1480 Shader and 1300 memory score around 8700 marks for the SM3.0 result with the CPU at 3.82Ghz (same CPU). Then it's evident from your low SM2.0 score that you need more CPU speed to get decent bump there, which explains Molean's high SM2.0 marks.

3Dmark06 is about GPU power and CPU power to harness the GPU power. A higher CPU core speed will help your SM2.0 score no matter if it's a dual or quad core.
Your CPU score will also depend on CPU score, but more so the amount of CPU cores. The more cores, the higher the score. But your CPU score count for a small precentage of the overall 3dmark06 result, so a higher clocked dual core will sometimes result if clocked high enough.
The SM3.0 score doesn't get influenced by the cpu too much. Yes the CPU speed will have an impact, but it's more about your system memory speed, graphics memory speed, shader clocks and graphics clocks.
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GuntherHanne, i think you should take out one of the card's out to see how the machine does like that, and disable Physx (big up voodooprophetII) then start diagnosing where your problems lie.
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