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

 

[videl]

That's not bad, It is definately a good score...
I was getting that with a Crossfire of 2 4850's and Phenom II X4 B50 @4.0Ghz

 

[cncmasterw]

Only need a few more fsb!! RAWR

 

[sbobi]

I have i7 920, GTX285 and 6GB DDR3

 

[cncmasterw]

So i hit THAT 15K omg >D >D >D >D

 

[videl]

You did? Great! Good job man!
I almost thought it wasn't possible...lol...

 

[bensonj7]

You did? Great! Good job man!
I almost thought it wasn't possible...lol...

Been awhile since I ran any benches so thought I'd run a couple and see what ya'll think.

The 19k is my everyday setup and the 20k is with about as high a OC (3.8 @ 1.475v) as I can get stable. GPU is at ATI overdrive max of 775/1150 which this card has no problem with.

My system: Unlocked PII 550, thanks to the fine folks here advice, Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P,
4GB OCX DDR3 1600, HIS HD5850 (gave up on xfx and getting my 4850 to work right)

 

[videl]

I switched to nvidia for a little while...(not permanently though...lol)
might end up using both nvidia and ati in my builds...
I always wanted to try and run ati with nvidia crad for physx...
we'll see...
I bought a different mobo (A few months ago, MSI 790FX GD70) and it unlocked the cores perfectly...
The feature was even called "core unlock" made it easier than my gigabyte which was also a pretty nice mobo...

 

[EXT64]

Gigabyte may have added that function in more recent BIOSes as well (I see their OC/Health program has a tab for it now) however none of my chips are unlockable types so I've never tried it. Glad to hear the new board works well though.

 

[JDFan]

Gigabyte may have added that function in more recent BIOSes as well (I see their OC/Health program has a tab for it now) however none of my chips are unlockable types so I've never tried it. Glad to hear the new board works well though.

Gigabyte has the function but the naming is a bit confusing at first --- you need to go into the Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (MIT) portion of the BIOS - go into Advanced Clock Calibration page and change the EC Firmware selection to HYBRID - save the changes (this resets a portion of the BIOS like a BIOS Flash and takes awhile to make the change) and reboot and then go in and change the Advanced Clock Calibration to either All Cores or Per Core and save again and reboot.

 

[videl]

I might have not phrased myself well...Lol..I know gigabyte does have the function because I did unlock with it...but it wasn't as convenient...well for me it was all fine except for someone else it could be not so easy...but that wasn't t he latest bios version...maybe it did change...
But one thing for sure is that I like both Gigabyte and MSI mobos...

 

[ionut19]

So i see more then one score with 5770 but most with a good CPU. Now let's see how an old Core 2 Duo affects the score .

My normal setup:


Overclocked video card:


And here i overclocked th CPU as high as i can run a 3Dmark without increasing the voltage above 1.4v:

 

[demonnn]

 

[ionut19]

http://i50.tinypic.com/t4zszc.jpg

You could overclock your CPU and also install windows 7. The overclock will help your video card, i do not know if by changing the os, the impact on 3dmark is considerable.

 

[videl]

Windows XP will give you the highest 3DMark 06 scores...
Windows Vista/Seven scores will be a bit lower...

 

[demonnn]

You could overclock your CPU and also install windows 7. The overclock will help your video card, i do not know if by changing the os, the impact on 3dmark is considerable.

my cpu runs hot as is w/o oc. I need a better cooler.

my video card has very low scores , could it be because maybe I don't have pcie 2.0?


Still that's very low even for pcie 1 🙁


I still don't know if my mobo is pcie2

this is what gigabytes site says :

1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x 16 (The PCI Express x16 slot conforms to PCI Express 2.0 standard.)

does that mean i have pcie 2?


EDIT: i have windows 7 now but i can't view scores coz it says my 3dmark vantage trial has expired? ... wtf i never used it b4

 

[ionut19]

Do you have the latest drivers?

Your mobo has PCI 2.0. But it is not because of that, the impact is so small that you can't notice it.

 

[ionut19]

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=13045432

I just saw this, it is one of my scores, the lowest actually. My first was higher. Now i get close to it. If you click on the link you will see.

Also your CPU has a higher score, why does your video card has such a low score? It is better then mine.

 

[demonnn]

lol >_>

anyone know wats wrong with my pc?
<_<

 

[JDFan]

lol >_>

http://i49.tinypic.com/2wp4cvo.jpg


anyone know wats wrong with my pc?
<_<

A couple guesses --

--- the 2.8Ghz. CPU speed

--- the 3GB of RAM - Are you using 2x1GB and 2x512MB so that it is running dual channel or are you in single channel mode with 3 modules ?? (if using single channel mode the extra 1 GB. of ram is hurting more than helping !)

 

[demonnn]

A couple guesses --

--- the 2.8Ghz. CPU speed

--- the 3GB of RAM - Are you using 2x1GB and 2x512MB so that it is running dual channel or are you in single channel mode with 3 modules ?? (if using single channel mode the extra 1 GB. of ram is hurting more than helping !)

i have 1x2gb 800 mhz ddr2
and 1x1gb 667 mhz ddr2

this will be slower but i need that 1gb ram especially in windows 7 64 bit

--- the 2.8 ghz speed should not lower the score that much, in win xp i got 4500 , in 7 i got 3500 and overall lower score

 

[JDFan]

i have 1x2gb 800 mhz ddr2
and 1x1gb 667 mhz ddr2

this will be slower but i need that 1gb ram especially in windows 7 64 bit

--- the 2.8 ghz speed should not lower the score that much, in win xp i got 4500 , in 7 i got 3500 and overall lower score

Try removing the 1GB. and run the bench again and see what kind of difference it makes --- Are you running the RAM at 667 speeds then (or is the 1GB OC'd to run at 800Mhz.) -- the combination of running in single channel instead of dual and running at 667Mhz. instead of 800Mhz. would account for some of the slowdown.

 

[demonnn]

3DMark Score
16260 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score
6211
SM 3.0 Score
7768
CPU Score
4667

windows xp


*removed the 1 gb*

im happy with my cpu score in xp , but shouldn't the video card score be higher?

also do you change any settings in 3dmark06 before running? im running the defaults

 

[OvrClkr]

3DMark Score
16260 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score
6211
SM 3.0 Score
7768
CPU Score
4667

windows xp


*removed the 1 gb*

im happy with my cpu score in xp , but shouldn't the video card score be higher?

also do you change any settings in 3dmark06 before running? im running the defaults

The reason Why your score is lower than average is due to your CPU is bottlenecking your video card. Is there any way you can raise the clocks on that C2Q?

do you change any settings in 3dmark06 before running?

Make sure you set all your values to "performance" in CCC before you run the test, also make sure v-sync is disabled as well.

 

[JDFan]

im happy with my cpu score in xp , but shouldn't the video card score be higher?

also do you change any settings in 3dmark06 before running? im running the defaults

As OVrCLkr mentioned just setting CCC to performance modes but for the benchmark just using defaults -- really seems to be something slowing down the GPU as you can see my system with an X3 720 @ 3.2 GHz. (unlocked 4th core) and a single 5770 scores very close to your setup with the 5850 -- you should be getting much better !!

 

[demonnn]

how do i enable perfomance mode?