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Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Sandog on October 25, 2004, 08:55:25 PM
http://www.futuremark.com/download/?3dmark05.shtml


Downloading it now. post your scores.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Skuzzy on October 25, 2004, 09:36:07 PM
It's been out for a while.  I got 4147 on it.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: XtrmeJ on October 26, 2004, 12:27:00 AM
What is it exactly for us out of the loop?
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: XtrmeJ on October 26, 2004, 12:28:09 AM
nevermind, wonderous things happen when you explore the question for yourself....
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Balsy on October 26, 2004, 09:42:38 AM
A big fat 925.

Pentium 4 2.0
512 ram
5900 xt with 128mb

3 year old Dell.... pathetic.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Skuzzy on October 26, 2004, 10:34:08 AM
Xtrem, would you mind shortening up the sig a bit.  Thanks.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: XtrmeJ on October 27, 2004, 02:45:39 AM
Done, sorry bout that skuzzy. :)
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: maddog on October 27, 2004, 01:01:32 PM
1370 score...

AMD 3200+
1 gig 3200
ATI 9800 pro 128MB

And I thought I had a good sys......

On what sys Skuzz... Pls post sys spec...
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Skuzzy on October 27, 2004, 02:13:51 PM
Oh, 3.2Ghz P4 Northwood
1GB of ram
ATI X800Pro 256MB card.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Balsy on October 27, 2004, 02:22:59 PM
Come on Skuzzy, you know we cant do anything with that.  Give us the SPEC sheet!!!

Thanks in advance!

Balsy:D
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: acetnt367th on October 27, 2004, 02:28:40 PM
Quote
Originally posted by maddog
1370 score...

AMD 3200+
1 gig 3200
ATI 9800 pro 128MB

And I thought I had a good sys......

On what sys Skuzz... Pls post sys spec...


Something wrong here - I think I have double that score with 512 DDR 2100, Radeon 9800pro 128mb and athlon xp 2600+....266fsb.

I will retest this evening and post the results, if accurate - something may be up with your machine


Acetnt
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Skuzzy on October 27, 2004, 02:41:08 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Balsy
Come on Skuzzy, you know we cant do anything with that.  Give us the SPEC sheet!!!

Thanks in advance!

Balsy:D

Now Balsy, I could fill 10 pages with specs on a computer system.  I have learned, the hard way, giving out details about what is in a system usually causes more problems that it solves.
Someone will go out, buy all the components, get 75% of the score I got and then get mad at me for him not being able to tune it properly.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Balsy on October 27, 2004, 02:42:57 PM
Ok, fair enough, just ship me yours, and build yourself a new, better, faster one. :)

And BTW I'd take 75% of that score, its better than 3X my current one.

Balsy
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Skuzzy on October 27, 2004, 02:47:00 PM
The only problem with that Balsy, is the Northwood CPU's are getting hard to find and there is no way I am going to waste my money on a Prescott P4.
This system is going to have to last me a long time.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: SunKing on October 27, 2004, 03:28:21 PM
Speaking of huge scores check this out... the mobo to buy for xmas.



ASUS's nForce4 SLI board

Oct 22, 2004 - The ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard set a new 3Dmark05 record with a stunning 10,118 points during the recent Nvidia nForce4 launch conference. As the worldwide leader of motherboards, ASUS created the world's first motherboard with the capability to support SLI (Scalable Link Interface) and surpass the 10,000-point threshold.

ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe The ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe is a dream gaming platform with dual-graphics card and dual-channel memory design that supports the K8 939 CPU. Designed with extreme performance in mind, the A8N-SLI Deluxe excels in speed, and conquered many 3D rendering challenges.

Besides supporting two PCI-express graphics cards and numerous exclusive ASUS SLI design, this powerful solution also features the popular ASUS AI Proactive features such as AI NOS and AI Net2. And this is not to mention a list of top specifications such as Serial ATA 2.0, 8 Serial ATA ports, 1394 interface, 10 USB Connections and 8-channel audio.

The ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe will be available in time for the Christmas season.



Source (http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=7268)
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Dawvgrid on October 27, 2004, 03:58:20 PM
1042

AMD XP2200.

512 mb ram.

Ati 9500 pro.

I need an upgrade.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Sandog on October 27, 2004, 05:24:40 PM
I got 2645

DFI LANPARTY NFII ULTRA B
AMD|2500 @11X200
A-I-W RADEON 9800PRO
DVD+/-RW LITEON LDW-811S/851S
DVD|LITE ON 16X XJ-HD166/165H
PC3000 HYPERX  512MB X2
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: DmdBT on October 27, 2004, 09:03:07 PM
3725 w/4xaa
3895 w/no aa

Intel P4 3.0 cpu
ABit IC7 deluxe mb
dx 9.0c
win xp pro
raedon x800 pro 256mb
1gb RAM pc3200
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum

system was custom built by DK Labs (skuzzy@verizon.net)   :aok
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Skuzzy on October 27, 2004, 09:21:08 PM
BT, did your X800Pro have anti-aliasing enabled?  That score sure looks one with it enabled.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Reschke on October 27, 2004, 09:42:37 PM
Downloading it now. I should have a score up for my system soon.

Athlon64 3200+ 1MB cache 745 pin
Gigabyte K8N Pro
BFG Tech 6800 OC 128MB
1GB DDR400 ram
ATA-133 40GB Maxtor HDD
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: 38ruk on October 27, 2004, 10:35:31 PM
2672....edit 2704 with 400 core 361 mem oced 9800 pro
asus a7n8x
XP2500 at 2300mhz 11.5x200
Ati 9800pro 128  on omega 4.10's
512 pc3200
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: MrLars on October 28, 2004, 01:29:32 PM
Score 3897

3.2g Northwood
1g PC3200 ram
6800GT
No aa/af

Going to try oc'ing the vid card this weekend.

Score 4351

Clock settings at 410/1.1g
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: 214thCavalier on October 28, 2004, 01:50:08 PM
4676

AMD A64 3500
1 Gig Ballistix
OEM X800 Pro Vivo std clocks 475/450

However after flashing the bios of the X800 Pro Vivo to turn it into an X800 XTPE
with clocks of 520/560 using these settings 24/7 score now is

5881, still a tad low but i cant be asked to get into volt modding the card or to change the vid drivers to ones that score higher for 3DM.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Fauxbra on October 29, 2004, 09:33:48 AM
1050 no AA/AF

Dell P4 1.7
768MB Ram
FX5900 OC'd to 450 core 950 mem

what FPS were ya'll seeing.
I was getting like 9 max...that cant be good!!

I think its time to build something a tad faster
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Skuzzy on October 29, 2004, 10:13:08 AM
Fauxbra, your video card is seriously outclassing your CPU.  That is the old Willamette CPU and it was an abysmal CPU to start with.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Darkish on October 29, 2004, 01:11:53 PM
Oh my Lord - 249 here at 1024 no AA

P4 3.06 GHz  (512 L2 Cache)
512 MB PC3200
GeForce Fx5200 (256MB)
Onboard Sound
17 Processes

Why oh why make a card that can use DirectX 9.0 if it throws up its hands in horror and becomes shellshocked at the first sight of it then?
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Skuzzy on October 29, 2004, 01:17:21 PM
It's called 'marketing' Darkish.  :)
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Darkish on October 29, 2004, 01:24:30 PM
:p

Stirkes me as selling a Trabant with air con though.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Skuzzy on October 29, 2004, 02:27:52 PM
Well, it would work fine in the Trabant, as long as you did not turn it on.  Same diff.  :D
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: United on October 29, 2004, 04:02:35 PM
Wow, pathetic

213 at 1024 with no AA

P4 3.2GHz
2048MB DDR333 RAM
GeForce FX5200 128MB AGP 8x

Time to get me a new video card!
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Fauxbra on October 29, 2004, 10:05:50 PM
Thanks Skuzzy....i needed some good prodding to break down and buy a new Rig  :)
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: XtrmeJ on October 29, 2004, 10:37:06 PM
Scored a 2157. Any tips?

AMD 64 3200+
Asus K8V Motherboard
2x 512MB Memory
X800 Pro
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: acetnt367th on October 30, 2004, 12:13:01 AM
Ok, my score is 2108 (due to my slower fsb / ram methinks). It is still faster than your setup maddog - something is definitely up cause you got more muscle in your machine





Quote
Originally posted by acetnt367th
Something wrong here - I think I have double that score with 512 DDR 2100, Radeon 9800pro 128mb and athlon xp 2600+....266fsb.

I will retest this evening and post the results, if accurate - something may be up with your machine


Acetnt
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Waffle on October 30, 2004, 05:59:08 AM
allright count me in....


lol i think i need to do some tweaking, but will find out when this things done downloading.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Waffle on October 30, 2004, 06:56:02 AM
lmao -1145


Radeon 9500 pro / 9700 (128mb)

AMD xp64 3200+

1.5 gb memory
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Skuzzy on October 30, 2004, 07:43:58 AM
Quote
Originally posted by XtrmeJ
Scored a 2157. Any tips?

AMD 64 3200+
Asus K8V Motherboard
2x 512MB Memory
X800 Pro

Bizarre.  I cannot figure out how you managed to halve the performance you should be getting.  There is definately something wrong there though.
You should be busting 4,000.

You forcing anti-aliasing?  How about anisotropic filtering?
If neither, then I would say you have some stuff running in background eating CPU cycles up.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: 214thCavalier on October 30, 2004, 08:10:31 AM
Does your motherboard require the VIA  chipset drivers ?
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: XtrmeJ on October 30, 2004, 08:35:17 AM
Skuzzy, not quite sure man. Any suggestions on what I can do to fix these problems? Or turn antialiasing or anistropic off? Right now it is set to balanced, and antialiasing and anistropic are at "application preffernce".

Cavalier, I'll check those drivers out.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: 38ruk on October 30, 2004, 11:18:18 AM
2854

man i want to break 3000 this is addicting !!

xp 2500 @2300mhz
9800 pro @415 core 368 mem
512 pc3200
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Waffle on October 30, 2004, 12:42:21 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Skuzzy
Bizarre.  I cannot figure out how you managed to halve the performance you should be getting.  There is definately something wrong there though.
You should be busting 4,000.

You forcing anti-aliasing?  How about anisotropic filtering?
If neither, then I would say you have some stuff running in background eating CPU cycles up.



so where does 1145 stand with similer specs...except card...

radeon 9500 pro / 9700?
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: whels on October 30, 2004, 01:02:47 PM
score: 2373

CPU:  AMD Barton 2800+ (Stockspeed)
RAM:  1gig ( 2 x 512 cruical)
Vid: ATI 9800 pro 128
Sound: Audigy2


Whels
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Waffle on October 30, 2004, 01:22:47 PM
killed processes down to 16..ran it..same thing, well - 1146 :)
Title: in
Post by: Bingo on October 31, 2004, 08:11:55 AM
1153
amd 3000
512 3200 mem
ati 9800pro

Bingo


not good,,,,,no wonder my flying stinks,,,,,,lol
Got to blame something,,:)
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Skuzzy on October 31, 2004, 10:49:49 AM
By all accounts Xtreme (everyone swears AMD is faster than Intel), you should be beating my system.  I have a slower CPU, the same video card, and look at my score.

That was with the same video card settings you have.  You should, at least equal the performance of my system.  Just seems bizarre.  Looks to me like you are giving up a lot of performance somewhere and the most likely culprit is Windows processes.

Note:  The task manager does not show all the processes that are running.  It only shows the EXE programs which are running (except the ones MS hides).  There can be many DLL's running/loaded you do not know about.  Spyware/Malware is a big culprit, but MS has some sneaky ones too, such as the ones associated with Media Player 9 and 10.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: XtrmeJ on October 31, 2004, 02:09:44 PM
Would you recommend doing a system restore and starting fresh? I would'nt know how to find those processes and stop them.

Also one more thing. Think I should use the Windows 64bit Edition? It's a 1 year trial, think I'd see any better performance? Then I'd think about buying it.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Waffle on October 31, 2004, 02:12:41 PM
i'm getting ready to get a new video card - looking at the x800pro, but also eyeballing the x800xt - any major differences? besides the 4 pixel pipelines? and price? Figure its about time to upgrade to a card that will keep me going for the next 2-3 years or more :)

lol extreme - i've been eyeballing the 64 bit-edition also :) Just not sure what the compatibilty will be witn some program I use - mainly proo-tools.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: XtrmeJ on October 31, 2004, 02:19:34 PM
X800 rocks Waffle. No matter which one ya get, you will be satisfied. :)

And now we wait for Skuzzy to solve our Windows 64 Bit Edition Problem. :)
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: OOZ662 on October 31, 2004, 03:06:07 PM
I don't have a good enough video card to even run it...

(Waa waa waaaaaaaaaan)
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Skuzzy on October 31, 2004, 03:38:18 PM
I would not mess with the 64bit edition of Windows right now.  It is a bit of a bandaid, and MS has all but said the 64bit version will not roll out until Longhorn ships next year.
There really is not much of a performance gain to be had.

Xtreme, I am not sure what to tell you about your system.  You have a faster CPU than mine, same amount of ram, and same video card, and look at the score differences.
I think the only significant difference will be the way the OS is setup, but that would not account for that large of a difference between our systems.

Waffle, the X800XT has the 4 extra pipes, and slightly faster ram than the Pro.  Right now, you are going to be CPU handicapped in most situations even with the Pro card.  Your call.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: XtrmeJ on October 31, 2004, 04:01:16 PM
So maybe a system restore is the way to go, get a fresh start?

I havnt done anything to the way windows is setup, basically all stock the way it came.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Waffle on October 31, 2004, 05:48:30 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Skuzzy

Waffle, the X800XT has the 4 extra pipes, and slightly faster ram than the Pro.  Right now, you are going to be CPU handicapped in most situations even with the Pro card.  Your call.


AMD 64 3200+
Gigabyte K8NS pro
1.5 gb ram

scoring around 1130-1145 with ATI radeon 9500pro/9700

Limited by processor? If I bought an AGP x800 now, would it be wise and wait then for the PCI express to become more available? That seems to be the way things are heading..

Also, what's the difference if between an ATI xt800xt and say a gigabyte x800xt? just the manufacturers label?
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Shamus on October 31, 2004, 06:07:16 PM
2532

AMD Thbred 2100 @ 2.1
Asus nforce2 mb
ATI 9500 using the latest Omega hacked driver   330/290
768Mb of 3200

shamus
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: o0Stream140o on November 01, 2004, 12:00:31 AM
Application Preference, No AA
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/269_1099288238_321.gif)
With 4x AA 2260

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory: 2046MB RAM
Page File: 191MB used, 3752MB available
256 RADEON 9800 XT AGP (0x4E4A)
Made By Dell Corporation
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: MrLars on November 18, 2004, 12:51:33 PM
Loaded the new drivers, 66.93 I belive and cleaned up some processes.

OC'd to 410 core, 1.1g mem

Score  5087 w/o aa

a 700 point improvement over my previous OC'd score.

P4 3.2g Northwoody
1g pc3200 ram
GeForce 6800GT
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Skuzzy on November 18, 2004, 01:16:54 PM
Quote
Originally posted by Waffle BAS
AMD 64 3200+
Gigabyte K8NS pro
1.5 gb ram

scoring around 1130-1145 with ATI radeon 9500pro/9700

Limited by processor? If I bought an AGP x800 now, would it be wise and wait then for the PCI express to become more available? That seems to be the way things are heading..

Also, what's the difference if between an ATI xt800xt and say a gigabyte x800xt? just the manufacturers label?

Up to you on what to get.  Some of the third party ATI manufacturers alter the cooling, might use different RAM, but they all use the same ATI reference desigh card.  Some switch from the red to another color for the PC board.
As far as PCI Express goes, there is not real good reason to switch from AGP right now.  It will be, at least, a year before the PCI Express bus has any measurable impact due to the lag in system software changes needed to take advantage of its new features.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: LLv34 Jarsci on November 25, 2004, 08:21:59 AM
Offtopic: Run the 3Dmark05 demo and watch it through. What do you like about the music during end titles? Artist: Poets of the fall : Lift

Me likey :)
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Roscoroo on November 27, 2004, 11:37:00 PM
I finally did mine ...

3728   not the greatest and far from the fastest .

Amd 2500+ M Barton @ 2.4ghz
512 ddr
crucial radeon 9600 pro
win 98se fully tweeked out and sp 1.5 with my few extra processes shut down (kb, av, nv mixer,printer)

Kinda wierd how the 64bit systems aint seeing the higher scores must be software related cause those pc's defentally run harder/faster.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: LLv34 Jarsci on November 28, 2004, 10:54:22 AM
Roo, weird, that you got over 3000, I got 2300 with 9800pro and 3500+ amd, 1 gig memory!!!
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Roscoroo on November 28, 2004, 12:23:26 PM
i think the benchmark program software is geared more for 32bit os's and applications

 i dont think its giving a true reading at all in the 64 cpu

I also had to do quite a bit of fine tuning and tweeking to get that score . my 1st pass was 3400 area ,i also had to adjust a couple of irq's that were sharing .
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Kev367th on December 02, 2004, 10:02:33 PM
Got benchies on an Athlon 64 3800 (s939) running 3d mark using SLI
Top to bottom-
2x6600GTs SLI mode
2x6800 Ultras SLI mode
Single 6800 Ultra
ATI x800 pro

(http://www.planet3dnow.de/artikel/hardware/sli/img/3dmark05.png)

Serious speed there!!!!!
Would expect even more with an FX-55.

The highest score up to now is a pair of 6800s in SLI with an Athlon64 clocked at 2.6GHz - 10533!!!!

Looks like a nice start would be a single PCI-E 6800 then add another later when you want a big boost.

If only I had the cash to spend, how much for a couple of kidneys nowadays?
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: yb11 on December 02, 2004, 10:59:08 PM
4510  is that good ?
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Kev367th on December 02, 2004, 11:12:49 PM
Your in the ballpark for an x800.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: 214thCavalier on December 03, 2004, 01:57:02 PM
No he is not.

5860 is nearer the mark for his rig, or should be.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=150235

Thats my score with AMD 3500 1 gig mem and X800 pro modded to X800XT, 520 core 560 mem speeds.

Btw 3DM05 is virtually exclusively a graphics card test, the rest of the system makes very little difference.
I overclocked my cpu from 2.2 to 2.37 g and gained 20 points, however running AH i get a good fps increase.

If you browse some scores you will see slower cpus getting virtually the same score as long as they use the same graphics cards.

And who the hell is gonna buy 2 6600gt nvidias and SLI them when one X800XT gets the same score ?
The X800 will run all games full speed while the SLI 6600's will only work with games that Nvidia have coded for in the drivers and thats not many.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: yb11 on December 03, 2004, 02:40:23 PM
updated the driver to 4.11 now i get 5764
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Kev367th on December 03, 2004, 03:17:38 PM
"Coded for in the drivers"?
I was under the impression that SLI was not game dependent but driver dependent, same as Voodoo SLI. That being as long as the drivers supported SLI the game would use it.
I used to have Voodoos running SLI, never had a problem running any Windows based games, support for SLI is in the drivers, not coded to specific games.
Some older games may need to be forced to use SLI, but that will be in option in future drivers.

Whole point was that a good starting point (at this time) would be a single 6800GT PCI-E, later on down the road you can add a second to really boost performance using SLI (something that ATI doesnt support at the moment).
Good example is the current 'High" score for 3Mark - 10533 using 2x6800 Ultras using SLI.

SLI = Higher performance at higher screen rez with AA etc turned up to max than a single card solution.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: ChasR on December 04, 2004, 01:22:12 PM
5125
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Kaz on December 04, 2004, 01:53:40 PM
Wow 1686.... Something's wrong I think. From what I see with comparable systems with NON overclocked CPUs/GPUs I'm still behind the grade.

[Edit] This is with my Vid Card set to performance. When set to best quality i'm getting 1143.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Krusty on December 04, 2004, 04:19:26 PM
Also don't forget Aquamark, another testing program out there.

Why? Becuase Aquamark (downloading it now) claims to use DX 7, 8, and 9 (not exclusively 9, like 3DMark05 -- which apparently won't run on a Ge Ti4400 128MB)
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: 214thCavalier on December 05, 2004, 03:45:01 AM
Kev

Quote
When buying an SLI system you should note that not all games work with this mode. Without the right SLI profile in the driver the game runs only on one card with SLI activated, and sometimes even more slowly than when SLI is deactivated. The game's age and level of 3D technology also play a large role.


And

Quote
Even our efforts to force SLI operation through the expanded driver settings had no effect. After talking with NVIDIA we learned the cause: SLI is not available with some games. NVIDIA has so-called SLI Profiles for games that are defined in the driver. The driver recognizes the game via application detection and executes the SLI mode (split or balancing) designated for that profile. If no SLI profile exists for a game, there is no SLI rendering. It is not possible to force SLI mode or generate your own profile. According to NVIDIA however the driver already contains over 50 profiles for games running with SLI. For newer titles this therefore means that SLI system owners have to wait for a new driver. But even then there is no guarantee that SLI will be possible with a particular game.


Taken from

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041123/index.html

And its not the only reference.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Kev367th on December 05, 2004, 06:06:36 AM
Read that review Cav.
Also read others where it says an option to force SLI is in upcoming drivers. You will have an option of 3 modes, you just choose which works best. This info was available at the time the article was written, Tom just decided to omit it (see explanation below).

Even then games are being added to the list all the time, it's now closer to 100 than 50. Still gonna work out that SLI will outperform any single card, especially as you increase the screen res and up AA etc.

Remember it's still in its infancy, gonna be problems at the start.
Still say a good bet is a single 6800GT then adding another further down the line to gain a big performance boost.

As for Tomshardware, I gave up relying on him for unbiased reviews a long long time ago. Well known he is 'in bed' with Intel and ATI.
One of his most notorious ones was putting a single Opteron up against dual Xeons and then saying the Xeons win. Well DUH guess they would. Tom 'sold out' many years ago to Intel. I used to be regular reader up till that point.
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Waffle on December 06, 2004, 08:12:09 PM
hehe new card showed up in the mail today - x800 pro...figure I bought the last one 3 years ago- this should do for about as long, I hope :)


Previous Score - 1145
Now 4579.

Still not done with my winter project, have to do one more drive ito set up in an array - waiting on cables (best buy wanted 17$ bucks for a 3 dollar cable..lol) - and the new faster ram should be here this week :)

Guess in a year or so, I can upgrade MOBO/Processor - lol
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: 214thCavalier on December 07, 2004, 08:39:42 AM
Waffle did you spring the extra 10 bucks for the VIVO version ?
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Waffle on December 07, 2004, 11:17:33 AM
nah, just the standard ATI version of the x800pro. Take it VIVO is Video in /Video out? -

Not a big multimedia person here video wise...lol
Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Sled on January 04, 2005, 04:33:25 AM
Well I feel better after reading all the post.

just got me a BFG 6800oc 128Mb (just the plain one no Gt or Ultra)

score? 2900. I was hopeing for better.

Think I can do better?  Should I be better? suggjestions?

Amd athlon xp 2500+ (not OC'ed so running 1.8Mh?)
1Gig Geil ram DDR 400 (running at DDR 333)
Abit KD-7 Raid MoBO
2X WD 80 Gig HDs
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Title: 3dmark 05 is out
Post by: Kev367th on January 04, 2005, 10:20:39 AM
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Originally posted by 214thCavalier
Kev



And



Taken from

http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20041123/index.html

And its not the only reference.


You can force SLI, Whels uses it now for AH2.
You just manually edit an xml file to include AH2 or any other game and off you go. Big choice you make is which version of SLI to use.