3DMark06 Scores...Amazing...Part 2

[OvrClkr]

Please post your best 06score here. Trying to see what setups work the best.

Here is my best at 3.6Ghz :

3.85Ghz :

Ryan closed videl's thread so i decided to re-open 😉


Much appreciated

 

[OvrClkr]

I have a Vantage bench with physX disabled =)

Mild GPU overclock :

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv199/OvrClkr/physX_disabled.png

 

[JofaMang]

does anyone have VAntage scores with a similar setup as me? W/o Physx card? Preferebly with a PII 965

965be c3 @4.0ghz + 4870 512mb @775/1030 + 4gb 1066-DDR2

Obviously not a GPU match, but CPU should be relevant.
My CPU score is a little higher than yours, but that may be due to my NB being slightly OC'd to 2200.

 

[bystander]

does anyone have VAntage scores with a similar setup as me? W/o Physx card? Preferebly with a PII 965

The problem is likely your CPU. The GPU score is slightly higher than my two 5870's in CF, but I'm running an i7, which scales much higher with multiple GPU's.

Here is a benchmark of the two different CPU's when overclocked to the same frequencies: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5870-cpu-scaling_4.html#sect1

Notice how the performance increases a lot more when the GPU is not bottlenecking. With two 5870's, the i7 advantage becomes a lot more apparent. With three 5870's, it's going to be huge. With a faster CPU, you'd probably see higher GPU scores as well as CPU scores.

From the same artical with Vantage scores: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5870-cpu-scaling_3.html#sect2

Yours is a good chunk higher than their CF setup, so yours looks about right.

 

[JofaMang]

I have a Vantage bench with physX disabled =)

Mild GPU overclock :

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv199/OvrClkr/physX_disabled.png
http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv199/OvrClkr/physX_disabled.png

Damn you 260!~

Will know next week if I am ordering a 5850 or 5870, and possibly but unlikely, may be able to slip into a 5970. I don't have the LCD real estate to justify a 5970, (22" 1920x1080), so thats almost completely out of the question, unless the alpha wannabe in me jumps hard enough on my nuts about it.

 

[OvrClkr]

hehe,

get a 5850 or 5870 and you will be fine, no need for the 5970 unless you are actually going to use all that horsepower.

 

[microterf]

The problem is likely your CPU. The GPU score is slightly higher than my two 5870's in CF, but I'm running an i7, which scales much higher with multiple GPU's.

Here is a benchmark of the two different CPU's when overclocked to the same frequencies: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5870-cpu-scaling_4.html#sect1

Notice how the performance increases a lot more when the GPU is not bottlenecking. With two 5870's, the i7 advantage becomes a lot more apparent. With three 5870's, it's going to be huge. With a faster CPU, you'd probably see higher GPU scores as well as CPU scores.

From the same artical with Vantage scores: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/radeon-hd5870-cpu-scaling_3.html#sect2

Yours is a good chunk higher than their CF setup, so yours looks about right.

Thanks for those links. good stuff. I wish they had 2560*1600 though. That's what I game at. I guess my scores are right where they should be. If memory serves me right, when looking into getting this Proc over the 920, I believe that the benchmarks @ 2560 evened out with crossfire. Let me see if I can find some..

 

[videl]

Well maybe ha wan'ts to play Crysis on very high settings with full AA... on two screens...lol

 

[microterf]

http://www.legionhardware.com/articles_pages/cpu_scaling_with_the_radeon_hd_5970,1.html

Here is that link with crossfire scaling with a 5970 at 2560 resolution. I will try to find more to see if these are accurate

 

[microterf]

get the 5870 jofa. YOu can always xfire later (even with a 5970)

 

[OvrClkr]

Damn you 260!~

Will know next week if I am ordering a 5850 or 5870, and possibly but unlikely, may be able to slip into a 5970. I don't have the LCD real estate to justify a 5970, (22" 1920x1080), so thats almost completely out of the question, unless the alpha wannabe in me jumps hard enough on my nuts about it.

or wait till Fermi 😉

 

[microterf]

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=1938277

new one after changing my timings to get my ram to 1066 (am2+ mobo)

23K

 

[OvrClkr]

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=1938277

new one after changing my timings to get my ram to 1066 (am2+ mobo)

23K

whats the max OC on your CPU?

 

[microterf]

I've been running it at 4.0GHZ 200x20 , haven't tried anything higher yet

 

[OvrClkr]

can you post all of your specs? cause your config says that you are using a pentium II 233mhz ...

 

[bystander]

Thanks for those links. good stuff. I wish they had 2560*1600 though. That's what I game at. I guess my scores are right where they should be. If memory serves me right, when looking into getting this Proc over the 920, I believe that the benchmarks @ 2560 evened out with crossfire. Let me see if I can find some..

Yes, that is likely going to happen, as the higher resolution chosen, the more stress is put on the GPU's and usually becoming the bottleneck. So you saved some money and get the same performance at that resolution. However, in vantage, they also test the CPU seperately, so it shows a lower score. That and it's performed at a low res.

 

[microterf]

can you post all of your specs? cause your config says that you are using a pentium II 233mhz ...

Haha, yeah, I love that ol Pentium II.

Current specs

PII 965 @ 4.0 GHZ 200x20 1.5v
8GB OCZ PLatinum 1066 Mem
1 TB WD black
1 250GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.1
1 500GB WD Blue
Plus a few 1TB external WD drives (might get a DROBO to replace them soon though)
1 Powercolor Watercooled 5870 @ 875
2 XFX FAn cooled 5870s @stock 850
Asus M3A79-T Deluxe mobo
Corsair Obsidian 800D case
1200W PC Power and Cooling PSU
1 Loop 360* radiator with MP655 pump for water cooling.
Monitors: 1 3008WFP, 2 x26" VP2650wb, and 1 AcerH33H
Sound: Bose Companion 5 speakers

 

[microterf]

Yes, that is likely going to happen, as the higher resolution chosen, the more stress is put on the GPU's and usually becoming the bottleneck. So you saved some money and get the same performance at that resolution. However, in vantage, they also test the CPU seperately, so it shows a lower score. That and it's performed at a low res.

Right. it looks as though the Physx (or lack of a physx card) is the problem there with the CPU score, and I guess the benchmarks don't really mean anything anyway, I just wanted to compare it to what I should be getting. My buddy has a 9800GT that he might bring over tomorrow and I might switch out one of the 5870s and throw that in as a dedicated physx card to give it a run and see what I get...

 

[OvrClkr]

wow, that is the opposite of what you have in your config...lol

 

[microterf]

lol. I did have that system at one point in time though.

 

[microterf]

I do have a Thermaltake Spedo Advance, and a Saphire 4870 and a 850W Thermaltake PSU left over from my latest upgrades though

 

[microterf]

btw, what is the B50 proc??

 

[JofaMang]

btw, what is the B50 proc??

It is a 550be with 2 cores unlocked, b50 is how it is ID'd in the computer when the cores are unlocked.

 

[OvrClkr]

lol. I did have that system at one point in time though.

Well I had one of the first celerons, only game that would play flawless was Doom (crt) / 64mb ram / 7Gb HDD , I had lots of fun with that CPU...

 

[OvrClkr]

btw, what is the B50 proc??

Yep, 90.00$ dual core that unlocks to a quad :

 

[yannifb]

Yep, 90.00$ dual core that unlocks to a quad :

http://i683.photobucket.com/albums/vv199/OvrClkr/FSB_top.png

Ummmm off topic but whats your background? I like it 😀