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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: drdeathx on December 22, 2008, 12:48:04 PM
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Guys... here is a free video card stability and benchmark test. Quick download. Please post video card and results. Let the competition begin!
http://freestone-group.com/video-card-stability-test.htm
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(http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/qq77/AAdeath/vidcard.jpg)
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My Commodore C64 wouldn't run it.
or for you... MY COMMODORE C64 WOULDN'T RUN IT.
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533 for a stock 9800GT
not bad for £88 :D
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My Commodore C64 wouldn't run it.
or for you... MY COMMODORE C64 WOULDN'T RUN IT.
:rofl
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EVGA 8800 GTS 640
Stock: 454
OC'd to EVGA's Superclocked card: 500
Not bad for a 2 year old card...but was $375
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8800GT on a 8400 dual core 4 gig ocz ram, xp on the non gaming boot side browser still open 537
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3850hd agp
dualcore opteron 200mhz asus A8V deluxe, 2GB system ram
video system 125
this is before i try to reinstall the drivers .. hope I get better marks.........
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Your Video System: 97
This program is severly flawed.
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(http://www.div-overlay.com/vid_score.jpg)
I am afraid to plug my fast system in might blow the program out :O
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'270' with a GeForce 7900GS.
Little ways away from the highest ranker of 1253 (According to the site). :)
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I nearly quadrupled my score with some easy manipulations. I could possible doube that again with more changes.
:rolleyes:
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480
GeForce 8800 GT
Stock
OK
How are you guys getting such sharp screen shots?
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OK
How are you guys getting such sharp screen shots?
What do you mean?
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Im assuming your using printscreen to take the screen shot.
When I do it and transfer it over. Its barely legible and not even worth saving to upload
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WOW, I got a 98 with my 8600, runs AH2 just fine at refresh rate of 60. Vista rules. I do have 11 windows open at the moment along with nothing turned off in the background.
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Im assuming your using printscreen to take the screen shot.
When I do it and transfer it over. Its barely legible and not even worth saving to upload
I use snag it for my captures.
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Im assuming your using printscreen to take the screen shot.
When I do it and transfer it over. Its barely legible and not even worth saving to upload
It will look like that until you upload it,then when you post it,it will look fine.
Falcon23
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What 'picture' program are you pasting your screen capture in? Windows Print Screen should work just fine.
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Did anyone notice the 'globe' they use is not very accurate?
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'270' with a GeForce 7900GS.
Little ways away from the highest ranker of 1253 (According to the site). :)
(http://www.div-overlay.com/vid_score_2.jpg)
I guess I have a lil more to go on this system :rock ... then its time to bring out the big Guns bwahhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Print screen next I save it in paint then load it to photobucket, then copy the thumbnail to the forum. Tildeath you bastage. Very nice!
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Tildeath... Last score was card cranked. Here is default. Is yours O/C'd?
(http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/qq77/AAdeath/vidcard2.jpg)
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Did anyone notice the 'globe' they use is not very accurate?
They are anticipating global warming, earthquakes and nuclear war besides meteorites!
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It is using a hacked DX9 DLL file. There is no way this is a valid benchmark/test. If it cannot use the standard supplied DX9 DLL then something is very wrong.
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It is using a hacked DX9 DLL file. There is no way this is a valid benchmark/test. If it cannot use the standard supplied DX9 DLL then something is very wrong.
Agreed, something not right about this program. Been in the OC world for some time now and never came across this "ahem" utility. But it was fun to push the card a little though to see where it would go to.
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It also bears absolutely no resemblance to the real world. Seems to be heavily biased towards NVidia. A bit of a joke if you ask me. Then again, the NVidia fanbois would eat it up.
Next thing you know, there will be another benchmark/test that shows the ATI cards 4 times faster, using a hacked DX9 DLL which allows hardware tessellation to work.
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Tildeath... Last score was card cranked. Here is default. Is yours O/C'd?
(http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/qq77/AAdeath/vidcard2.jpg)
Yes it was OCed a lil, not to its limits though. This could be a 24/7 OC for "my" 280GTX.
Warning these OC settings could blow a Video Card out without proper cooling and case ventilation. Do not try this at home!
Core Clock: 621 Normal / OC 754
Shader Clock: 1350 Normal / OC 1639
Memory Clock: 1134 Normal / OC 1258
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It also bears absolutely no resemblance to the real world. Seems to be heavily biased towards NVidia. A bit of a joke if you ask me. Then again, the NVidia fanbois would eat it up.
Next thing you know, there will be another benchmark/test that shows the ATI cards 4 times faster, using a hacked DX9 DLL which allows hardware tessellation to work.
LOL Like I said it was fun. It gave me a number to get to and I went for once after I got my base score. If my 1251 takes a hit, out comes the LN pots and that "special" video card, MB and processor. I have 24 liters of LN sitting doing nothing at the moment.
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kinda OT but what temps do your GPUs run at? after an hour of AH with lots of cons, smoke effects etc mine settles at 70-75deg (fan alternating between med and full speed) whereas CPU cores 1&2 settle at about 45-50deg. 75 seems high to me, although apparently within specs according to nVidia.
btw normal (non gaming) use GPU 50-55deg, CPUs 30-35deg.
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kinda OT but what temps do your GPUs run at? after an hour of AH with lots of cons, smoke effects etc mine settles at 70-75deg (fan alternating between med and full speed) whereas CPU cores 1&2 settle at about 45-50deg. 75 seems high to me, although apparently within specs according to nVidia.
btw normal (non gaming) use GPU 50-55deg, CPUs 30-35deg.
Your good into the 80's with most nVidia graphics cards. if your not OCed and not artifacting your fine in the 70's. You will know when your pushing to high, the video card, PSU or both will make a squeel (seriously)
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It also bears absolutely no resemblance to the real world. Seems to be heavily biased towards NVidia. A bit of a joke if you ask me. Then again, the NVidia fanbois would eat it up.
Next thing you know, there will be another benchmark/test that shows the ATI cards 4 times faster, using a hacked DX9 DLL which allows hardware tessellation to work.
I was about to say the same, the scores do not reflect real world gaming performance.
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Just a fun time waster guys. See that your card can do Rip.
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http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm (http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm)
Ive used this one for quite awhile, Skuzzy any opinions?
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Tested mine and it was 341. Which is about right for a Radeon 3850.
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http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm (http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm)
Ive used this one for quite awhile, Skuzzy any opinions?
I am not Skuzzy but if your seeking realworld benchmarks that have recognition as true benchmarking utilities, you have a few limited choices. Each and everyone of these Utilities are found in all the overclocking forums for compairing systems performance. The software from futuremark is used for competitions on websites for give aways such as EVGA's MODRIGS. They use the scores from 3DMark06 and Vantage to rate the fastest systems in the world using an EVGA product.
3DMark06 or Vantage http://www.futuremark.com/ (http://www.futuremark.com/)
SiSoft Sandra http://www.sisoftware.net/ (http://www.sisoftware.net/)
Everest http://www.lavalys.com/ (http://www.lavalys.com/)
You also have CPU-Z, GPU-Z for showing validated CPU and GPU settings. For instance click on my signature and it shows a validated Overclock of a q9450 CPU to 3.9GHz
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My only thought about the benchmarking was it was more of an indicator than anything else. More like start here an see where you go.
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I am not Skuzzy but if your seeking realworld benchmarks that have recognition as true benchmarking utilities, you have a few limited choices. Each and everyone of these Utilities are found in all the overclocking forums for compairing systems performance. The software from futuremark is used for competitions on websites for give aways such as EVGA's MODRIGS. They use the scores from 3DMark06 and Vantage to rate the fastest systems in the world using an EVGA product.
3DMark06 or Vantage http://www.futuremark.com/ (http://www.futuremark.com/)
SiSoft Sandra http://www.sisoftware.net/ (http://www.sisoftware.net/)
Everest http://www.lavalys.com/ (http://www.lavalys.com/)
You also have CPU-Z, GPU-Z for showing validated CPU and GPU settings. For instance click on my signature and it shows a validated Overclock of a q9450 CPU to 3.9GHz
Thanks TilDeath
I know that Perf Test by Passmark isnt a household name and at one point or another Ive used alll that you listed. Did you look at Perf Test? It scores a number of areas in your PC, I use it not to compare to others but to have an overall benhmark to check myself against and its worked great for that.
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My only thought about the benchmarking was it was more of an indicator than anything else. More like start here an see where you go.
Yes that and also a rig that scores low will most likely not play the newly released games at good frame rates or at the games highest settings for the true way it was intended to be played by the games designers (kinda like some GVers here who turn the visuals all the way down to see thru trees and hills for other GVs, take the fun out in my opinion). Everest and SiSandra and used for tweeking your machine. They show every aspect of your machine as far as components and the drivers with their realease info. Simply by changing your driver you can improve your systems performance from a small amount to sometimes large amounts. Finding the right combination is the hard part when swapping drivers.
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Thanks TilDeath
I know that Perf Test by Passmark isnt a household name and at one point or another Ive used alll that you listed. Did you look at Perf Test? It scores a number of areas in your PC, I use it not to compare to others but to have an overall benhmark to check myself against and its worked great for that.
No I havent but will... I am always looking for something to assist me with completed setups and how well we did in our choice of components. We keep a data base of scores and what components we used so we can duplicate systems without a doubt of its gaming ability. Like if someone say they play ABC game we look and know entry level build for that game if they say we play ABC but also XYZ we look at scores for the XYZ game and use those build specs so they can play the low end game (ABC) and the high end requirement game (XYZ) both without a hitch. Makes for happy customers
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Perf Test allows you to save your tests and add notes to each one. Then you can bring up previous tests and do side by side comparisons with the current test, thats the part I use the most.
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Just a fun time waster guys. See that your card can do Rip.
I got a similar score to the ones on top of 4870 users that were posted. This got me very suspicious since a 9800 nvidia was getting similar scores and 260 was blowing it away where in reality a single 4870 matches or outperforms a 260.
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Posting a useless program that uses a hacked DLL.file...........nice.
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did anyone notice, that if you keep your vidcard set the same. the more you keep doing it over and over each time the benchmark finishes. the higher your number will go, without making any tweaks. from the 1st test on my ASUS EAH3870 512 meg DDR4 PCI-E card I went
1st test: 453
2nd test: 461
3rd Test: 468
quit it and uninstalled the proggy after that........ just for giggles, anyhows...... I did not give this test much thought after reading Skuzzy's hacked file, ost. just wanted to check the proggy out
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No offense death, but that little program is a joke...
If you REALLY want to benchmark your video card, try these...They are a bit more realistic in terms of true results..
Aquamark3D----->http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=673 (http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=673)
Futuremark----->http://www.futuremark.com/download/ (http://www.futuremark.com/download/)
You will not get any bloated or deflated scores with these....
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Just a nice time waster... Dendork. Got a lot of attention. BTW Tildeath, on one of your links 59 degrees and it was saying to hot. I run AMD 9850. I realize this is warm but is 59 to hot? I am overclocked to 2.9 ghz and run liquid cooled. Idle I run 30 degrees. Should I back it down a bit?
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Death do you mean 59 Fahrenheit or Celsius? I really hope it is not actually at 59C. The maximum temp for AMD x4 9850 is 61C; you are pushing it if it is at 59C.
AMD site:
Voltages 1.05-1.3V
Max Temps (C) 61'C
Wattage 125 W
http://products.amd.com/en-us/DesktopCPUDetail.aspx?id=449&f1=&f2=&f3=&f4=&f5=&f6=&f7=&f8=&f9=&f10=
Just be glad you do not have a Brisbane core like I do. Would never know true temp!
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Ouch, that is toasty.
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60c is fine for most Intel CPUs, is it warm, yes, is it dangerous warm no, not close. If your maxed (meaning you are full stress for 2 plus hours) at 60c on an Intel chip, don't worry, your not going to get to that 70c scare point unless your ambient temp changes to much warmer, fan or pump failure. I can not speak for AMD, don't own one, never owned one, never will own one. Hence me stating check with Manufactures specs for temps. If 61c is your cap then your feeding to much voltage. As stated in other posts. OCing is not what can you get your CPU to post at to be stable but what will it take stress wise, and this includes the North and South Bridges and Mem. That's the real trick to overclocking. If it were so easy there would not be competitions cause everyone would have the same ability with the same components.
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OK I tested my video card running as I would run the setting playing aces high.
Now....just to say your numbers are higher is not important. I can reset my video cards with a lower resolution, move sliders to performance as opposed to quality, disable antialiasing and anisotropic filtering and disable vert. refresh,mipmap detail etc. then I get a world beating score!
Instead I left my video cards as I use them...yes they....... I'm running ATI 4850s Crossfire.
My score with detail setting, not performance was 254. Never saw anything below a FR of 245 fp/s and testing at 1280/1024 resolution.
So in essence....the test can give you anything you want.
The key is to leave the setting where you use them in game with refresh rate on monitor being the key.
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OK I tested my video card running as I would run the setting playing aces high.
Now....just to say your numbers are higher is not important. I can reset my video cards with a lower resolution, move sliders to performance as opposed to quality, disable antialiasing and anisotropic filtering and disable vert. refresh,mipmap detail etc. then I get a world beating score!
Instead I left my video cards as I use them...yes they....... I'm running ATI 4850s Crossfire.
My score with detail setting, not performance was 254. Never saw anything below a FR of 245 fp/s and testing at 1280/1024 resolution.
So in essence....the test can give you anything you want.
The key is to leave the setting where you use them in game with refresh rate on monitor being the key.
Agreed. My settings we all the way up in other words unchanged. But I do run my stuff OCed and stable. Display settings were/are 1680 x 1050
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ATI Radeon X300/X500/X1050 Series
Ugh 28
That is horrible, I need a new Video Card.
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Please do not use this program as something to tell you if you need a new video card. It is canned to provide NVidia cards a higher score than ATI cards, even in the cases where ATI cards are much faster.
I am thinking the score is more about how hot the video card runs, rather than the actual performance. The higher the score, the hotter the card runs. Either way, it uses a hacked DirectX dll file. You cannot know what is going on there.
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Please do not use this program as something to tell you if you need a new video card. It is caned to provide NVidia cards a higher score than ATI cards, even in the cases where ATI cards are much faster.
I am thinking the score is more about how hot the video card runs, rather than the actual performance. The higher the score, the hotter the card runs. Either way, it uses a hacked DirectX dll file. You canot know what is going on there.
That explains some things to me. As soon as I ran it I started having VC issues where I never had any before. I reloaded my drivers and that seems to help. Should I reinstall directx too?
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Should not hurt to do so Getback. The hacked file it installs should not be used by any other program, unless they are hacking the registry as well when they install it.
I'll have to put together a trash system to find out.
This whole thing puts me out a bit. If it was an innocent hack, then why not openly explain it? It is not offered on thier WEB site at all. You guys really do not know what you could be getting into running/installing this.
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I don't think I will ever install another program listed in the forums until I have verified evidence of it's nature. That OCCT program couldn't even be scanned by my AV. Now this issue. Shame on me. I am usually very careful.
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It is using a hacked DX9 DLL file. There is no way this is a valid benchmark/test. If it cannot use the standard supplied DX9 DLL then something is very wrong.
Thanks for posting this, saved me some wasted time and HD space (not that I have a shortage of the latter).
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I uninstalled it.