3DMark06 benchmark

[t0m]

Originally Posted by 1Tanker

Wrong link, t0m. You have to link the "compare link".

oops do you have to sign up/be logged in to get that? maybe ill sign up and try again... oh well at least theres a picture of the results...

[Shredder]

17k with stock cooling on video card :)

[Dadi_oh]

My first post so thought I would put up my latest 3dMark06 score. I am a semi trailing edge guy who buys HW oince it comes down from the insane level to the semi-reckless spender level So my vid cards are 8800GT's and 9600GT overclocked as much as I can get with after market cooling. The score of 14469 is from my main rig running a Palit 8800GT Sonic 1GB with a Danger Den Maze 4 GPU water block. Haven't volt modded it (yet) so 740MHz is about the highest I can go without artifacting in ATI Tool. Runs about 47C loaded on the core in a 26C room.

Looking at a few reviews I am not "too" far off some of the newer cards (@ stock anyways) so I think I'll wait for the GTX260 to drop below $200 before my next upgrade.

[3.0charlie]

Hey! Welcome in the Forum. Even though your parts are already passe, you still have great rigs!

Want to join our Folding at Home Team, with those 3 nVidia cards? You would make ~15000 ppd...!

John

[WolfBane]

Well heres my 1st score :)

[Dadi_oh]

Originally Posted by 3.0charlie

Hey! Welcome in the Forum. Even though your parts are already passe, you still have great rigs!

Want to join our Folding at Home Team, with those 3 nVidia cards? You would make ~15000 ppd...!

John

Yeah. Like I said... trailing edge but good enough for what I do and not draining my wallet "too" much.

I am already folding for another forum at the moment. About to break into their top 10. Wanted to try out this forum for a bit since I am Canadian Eh....

Thanks for your welcome

[encorp]

Just checking - is this any good for my set up? (see system in sig)

[cwestwell]

That's a Great score for a 8800GT and a 3.0 Q6600. Best I could pull was 12725 out of my 2900XT with my CPU OC to 3.4Ghz.....now for something completely different.

I got my 4870X2 last night most exellent and most hot (really hot) but everyone knows that. I throw the card in load the 8.8CCC and bam 13875 booooooooo. hardly even an extra 1000 points CPU stock..so I uninstall the card and old drivers clean out the registry and try again 15675 much better but not quite to my liking or expecations I tweek some more and end up with 16725 much better yet still not what I expected. After playing with my processor speed it seems I am suffering major bottlenecks boooo not only does my cpu score go up with my OC but my SM 2.0 & 3.0 and FPS go up way more. I guess its WC for me I just cant sit at that level with this card I figure I should at least get 18000 without to much fuss. But in this process I also tried out Vantage for the first time very very nice.

[encorp]

Yeah according to Gav that card is very limited by the CPU.

[cwestwell]

Yeah it's the awesome review I read here that helped push me into this card...and now I want an X48 and a coolit Boreas system but that's another story... I just didnt think the bottleneck would be so hardcore....cant imagine the waste of having 2 of these on any current non OC pc.