3DMark06 benchmark

[Kappy]

Originally Posted by Prof. Dr. Silver

WOW!

That is one KICKASS score!! Can you tell us what your setting were?

Congratz!

Runnin at 3.45GHz my timing set at 5-5-5-16 did not touch the the card

[JShupka]

Really happy to crack 15,000 mark. New forceware 174.74 saw it increase around 800pts.

Asus Striker Extreme
Intel Q6600 OC @ 3.0
Scythe Ninja (thinking about swapping to Ultra 120)
OCZ Gold @ 800 4-3-4-8 2T
Galaxy 8800GT @ 650/950 in SLI
Seagate 7200.11 500GB (second one on it's way for RAID 0)
PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610w
Hiper Anubis case
Samsung 226BW LCD

[biff]

Originally Posted by JShupka

New forceware 174.74 saw it increase around 800pts.

Geez must be nice. The new 174.74's dropped my score by nearly 2000 points! I think I'll go back to the 169's till they get these sorted out.

[CanadaRox]

I haven't heard anything about the new 174.74 drivers, but TweakForce's modded 169.61 drivers are really good. 169.61 was originally for workstation cards, but apparently gives a bit of a boost. I'll try out the 174.74 drivers though and see how it goes.

[CasheKicker]

Here is my 1st attempt at overclocking benchies. Not bad but I know my CPU still has a lot of room left in it. I have not adjusted any voltages yet, apart from bringing my RAM up from the Gigabyte default of 1.8v up to 2.0v, the crucial spec is 2.2v so I am still under spec there.

I do not have a registered ver. of 3dmark, it would be nice to see my broken down scores.

I am still using the forceware 169.21, I see others are using different Betas, does it make a big difference? Are there any risks to using Betas?

[magictorch]

Nice clocks on the GPU!! Is that load temps for the cpu? I think I read something about the backplate on your board giving you grief with the heat-sink backplate.

[CasheKicker]

I removed the Crazy Cool backplate to install the TRU-X, the load temps according to CoreTemp and HWMonitor are about 56-51 idle 43/43, where in Real Temp they are 10deg lower.46-41. idle 33/33.

Not sure which ones to trust but I still feel the idel temps seem to be a bit high, although much lower than they were with the intel stock cooler on. My ambient room temp is a steady 20deg. My idle temps on my AMD64 3500+ are about 28 with the stock cooler so it has me wondering if they are high or not.

[magictorch]

Might just be a software irregularity. Or more remotely some sort of cpu internal voltage setting that hasnt been made clear in the bios-(random guess). The difference between load and idle is good, and the temps are well within safe limits. Doesn't look like a seating issue. The TRU-X likes fans with high static pressure though.

[CasheKicker]

From reading the reviews here and on other sites, it appears I am using one of the best fans on the market for the TRU-X 120mm, The Noctua NF-P12.

[magictorch]

sorry didnt read your sig. in enough detail. yea thats a great fan!! absolutely love them-apart from the color. .put one on my GTX, and two on the radiator. So looks more like software then?? Anyway youll be at 4ghz in no time