3DMARK06 Benchmark.

[TilDeath]

Wow the fastest for '05 was a 6.4 ghz overclock.

That was not on AIR, it was using Liquid Nitrogen and was done by KingPin.  He currently holds a few world records.  He is the man to beat.  He goes thru more processors, MB and video cards in a day then most of us see in a lifetime.

Rumor has it for 2008 he was given, yes GIVEN, in the area of 750k in product from different manufactures for him to use for benchmarking.  Lol its kinda funny, he opens a MB, attaches LN pot, (processor first, then video cards with LN pots on them and fires it up goes to bios, trys a setting, melts CPU and board, throws it all away, opens new box, repeat (like washing hair lather rinse repeat).  Did I mention this is all not even on a testing bench, its all mounted on a piece of lead.

[Fulmar]

yeah I know its on LN.  I was surprised to find it was registered on the 3dMark system.  I saw the Tomshardware guys in Finland (IIRC) go over 6 on LN, but that was a year ago or so.

[drdeathx]

Sorry, my first post was 3Dmark05, I did do the 06, both are below.

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Ahhhh, that seems right! Thanx

[Flash]

Yea it does and Vantage is even slower.  You think your score is low in 3DMark06, try Vantage (FutureMark Corp also).  Here is a screen shot of system I just built for a client.  This systems score is within 70 some percent of the world record on their site and we havent started tweaking it yet.  Will it be good enough, no, I'm sorry to say but it will get pretty dang close.  Mid 80% of the record.

Yesss, mine, mine mine

[Softail]

ASUS P5N-D
Intel Core Quad Q6600
2 GB Ram (DDR2-800) Crucial Ballistix
EVGA GeForce 8800GT 512MB 256bit PCI Express
Seagate Baracuda 7200 Sata Drive

Running at 1280x720 driving a Samsung 50" DLP

3DMark06 rating 1200-1300

[drdeathx]

ASUS P5N-D
Intel Core Quad Q6600
2 GB Ram (DDR2-800) Crucial Ballistix
EVGA GeForce 8800GT 512MB 256bit PCI Express
Seagate Baracuda 7200 Sata Drive

Running at 1280x720 driving a Samsung 50" DLP

3DMark06 rating 1200-1300

I think a 64 commodore can do above 1200-1300 in 3DMARK06... lol. Sure you didn't mean 12,000-13,000?

[TilDeath]

ASUS P5N-D
Intel Core Quad Q6600
2 GB Ram (DDR2-800) Crucial Ballistix
EVGA GeForce 8800GT 512MB 256bit PCI Express
Seagate Baracuda 7200 Sata Drive

Running at 1280x720 driving a Samsung 50" DLP

3DMark06 rating 1200-1300

Crank 6600 up some is a bad boy, 3.6 is not real hard.   Pop your FSB to 14400 and see what you get.  Should be able to get in the 16k range with your GPU

[TilDeath]

21931 3DMark06 here is the link.  http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9533595
28350 On Vantage  here is the link http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=664031 with 30955 is the high compaired system
New machine for a client.

[Cobra516]

Damn I only get 15,226 on Vantage performance bench.

Q9550 @ 3.83 ghz - EVGA GTX 280 w/180.43 at 726/1516/1290, 4 gigs OCZ ram at 900 mhz, 5-5-5-13, 2tas  on an EVGA 780i SLI FTW

How would I get close to 28k?   Would another 280 bump it up?  I think the 3.83 ghz for the processor is pretty stout right?

[Flash]

21931 3DMark06 here is the link.  http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9533595
28350 On Vantage  here is the link http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=664031 with 30955 is the high compaired system
New machine for a client.

Looking good TilDeath, cant wait to get my hands on this next week.

[TilDeath]

Damn I only get 15,226 on Vantage performance bench.

Q9550 @ 3.83 ghz - EVGA GTX 280 w/180.43 at 726/1516/1290, 4 gigs OCZ ram at 900 mhz, 5-5-5-13, 2tas  on an EVGA 780i SLI FTW

How would I get close to 28k?   Would another 280 bump it up?  I think the 3.83 ghz for the processor is pretty stout right?

What is your FSB running at?  What Voltage are your running to your CPU.  There are a ton of factors.  Start with your FSB and your not gonna DBL your score with another 280 so save your money.  Your gonna need to get your FSB way up.  I believe that MB has a FSB OC rating of 1333+ your gonna want to get in and around 1850 to 1900.  I am not sure your mem will be stable at those speeds  your showing good lat but a 2T.  A 5-5-5-13 1T would be optimum.  See what you can get it to.  Make sure you put both your mem settings and Voltage into the BIOS manually.  I am thinking your gonna max out at about low 18s to 19200 on air.

[TilDeath]

Looking good TilDeath, cant wait to get my hands on this next week.

Coming along good... still dont have the FSB to where I want.  I have 1842 stable looking for 2k then I be happy.  That should get it to the 31 to 32k mark.  Heat is a problem right now.  I am trying to pull strings and get the gizmo for the Vendetta 2, there are some in the country WOOOO HOOOO

[Cobra516]

What is your FSB running at?  What Voltage are your running to your CPU.  There are a ton of factors.  Start with your FSB and your not gonna DBL your score with another 280 so save your money.  Your gonna need to get your FSB way up.  I believe that MB has a FSB OC rating of 1333+ your gonna want to get in and around 1850 to 1900.  I am not sure your mem will be stable at those speeds  your showing good lat but a 2T.  A 5-5-5-13 1T would be optimum.  See what you can get it to.  Make sure you put both your mem settings and Voltage into the BIOS manually.  I am thinking your gonna max out at about low 18s to 19200 on air.

I've got the FSB at 1800 - linked/sync'd and 1.4 volts going to the FSB.  1.367v on the CPU in the BIOS with vdroop.   I'll double check when I get home. 

I'm a total noob to overclocking - just kind of guessing what would work and reading up on what others have done.  Seems to be stable playing games for hours on end, CPU idles at ~35* C or less after letting it sit for 15 min or so.  Up to about 57 *C playing FSX maxed out.

It's interesting that I don't really see a gain from o/c'ing while playing games - the most notable difference I've been able to see is the substantial reduction in micro-stutters while flying in FSX.   I thought I'd see gains in Crysis from o/c'ing my video card - but it still gets about identical average FPS in the Crysis benchmark compared to stock settings - maybe 2-3 fps higher avg.  I guess that's a decent gain given it's an average.

[Getback]

I have my gaming computer running AH very well. I don't know what perfect is so I won't go there. But I OC'd it to 3.5, stopped a couple more processes, and then changed my video settings a little and wala, happiness. I think the OC helped a little but it was probably the vc settings that helped the most. Of course less background processes helped too.

Also, and I don't know what I did to stop this. For some reason at desktop and at idle I was using between 4 - 7 % of my resources. Now it's 0 - 2%. I'm thinking it may have been updating the video drivers and ATI management software that helped this. Not sure.

I can tell you even in a large horde I get no distortion and can easily pick my target.

[Cobra516]

Hehe, yea my FPS is pegged at 75 (refresh rate) all the time - I like that.