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I got them lol, but i cant get a good run with vantage without the friking driver crashing! prob OCing to hard lol, ill try stock later

OMG! ITs TRUE!


Hax or total OWNAGE?! that is the question

I geuss nows the time when i go I told you so while jumping on one leg and with a finger up my nose

R3D wrote:I geuss nows the time when i go I told you so while jumping on one leg and with a finger up my nose

Yup 10 points to you

Hmm but a bit stoopid... you update your gfx drivers and your CPU gets a better score? lol vantage is gonna have to add a physics score!

Going to boot my Vista and try this now


Rebenched and got 6136 which is a lot more then the 4500 I got before.

single 8800gt and q66 at 3.6 unts unts

Better size:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3216/293 ... c289_b.jpg

Something i noticed, when i put the CPU usage meter on my second monitor and watched it, Vantage uses barely any ram or processing power until you get to the physics tests

Intel Core 2 Q9450 @ 3.2Ghz
DFI X48 LT-2TR
HD4870X2 @ stock
FSB1600
DDR2 800 5-5-5-15 2T









Lot's of performance yet to squeeze out of this baby!

GA-M55PLUS-S3G
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512
2Gig RAM 512mb x 4

Nice CPU score!

I wish nVidia would get their azzes into gear and release a standalone PhysX driver for their 8 series cards under Vista. I've got my 8800GT itching to do some collision detection and cloth simulations...

Nehalem at 5.0Ghz with Tri SLI:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/sho ... p?t=206570

My new upgraded rig's scores:









My previous rig's scores:

wow, my CPU scores are low?

Prime wrote:wow, my CPU scores are low?

Are you running an AMD GPU? Because you need PhysX to get a good CPU score.

Something went wrong somewhere in my PC, so had to do a reformat, well, guess that happens.

My 3DMark Vantge score now is even a bit higher, which I'm quite pleased about

My question is that some ppls pc is way better than mine but my score is higher or just under theirs... How does vnatage do its test coz with 3D 06 and aquamark you will have a better score indication of the better pc?

Not really-3Dmark offers no real world guide on how good your PC is.
It's really just an epenis enlarger.
Often certain makes of card-such as ATi-obtain results better then Nvidia but when it comes down to actually playing games, it falls behind.

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Frozenfireside wrote:Not really-3Dmark offers no real world guide on how good your PC is.
It's really just an epenis enlarger.
Often certain makes of card-such as ATi-obtain results better then Nvidia but when it comes down to actually playing games, it falls behind.

I think I tend to agree with that. 3DMark scores to me are just an indication of the level/standard of a pc, the actual performace of the pc is, at the end, determined by how well the games play and perform. Maybe all that 3DMark does is give someone bragging rights with extremely high scores, but that doesn't necessarily mean to say the games on that pc run extremely well. That's just my opinion. Hell, my Vantage scores are pretty good (3DMark 06 at about 14800), but yet, Microsoft Flight Simulator X (with Accelaration expansion and SP1/SP2) keeps on crashing and blue screening to desktop (but then again that could be due to it being a Microsoft game). With my previous system with way lower specs I never had that problem

After the release of the new AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE, I decided that maybe it was not a bad idea to upgrade to that one from my AMD Phenom 9950 BE, so i did (after only having had the 9950 since mid November). The 940 gave me a nice improvement on my Vantage score from about 19500/19600 to a nice 21625. Very pleased with that. Don't seemd to get it any higher than 3.5 GHz though, but I guess that's also quite fine



Now all I need to do is start playing some games

been faffing with `06 for a wile now with my 4870 so i thought i should do a vantage run but the ambient is a little too high to do some seriouse clocking

3DMark Vantage ... everything at stock



AMD Phenom II X4 955
Asus M4A78T-E
2 x 2GB JetRam DDR3-1333
Radeon HD4890

Stuart, machine specs?

With Physx enabled

and disabled

Firestrm wrote:Stuart, machine specs?

oh ... right ...

AMD Phenom II X4 955
Asus M4A78T-E
2 x 2GB JetRam DDR3-1333
Radeon HD4890