Official 3DMark06 Rank Thread

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87dtna said:
No you simply hit a wall with the chipset on your mobo. Get a P45 board and it will clock higher. What Vcore are you running at 3.6ghz? What CPU cooler do you have?
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right now at 3.4, it's at:
cpu core 1.23v
dram 2.06v
NB 1.24v
cpu vtt 1.10v

i may have increased that a bit when running the tests, but didn't want to keep it that way.

i have a xigmatek s963 with only one fan, but it aligns with the case's rear fan for a sort of 'push-pull' config.

87dtna said:
It said so right on your screen shot, GPU's at 793/947
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yeah, i think i can get those clocks no prob. it's definitely the cpu then. oh, well, hey i can play any game comfortably so i'm not gonna sweat it.
 
Yeah a quad at 3.4ghz will not be any kind of bottleneck with any current game.

Your Vcore is very low, 1.23v. You should be able to crank that up to 1.35 easily and that may get you to 4.0ghz. But watch your temps and work up to it. But 1.35 is completely safe to the CPU, thats still low. To achive 4.2ghz stable on my I5 I pumped it to 1.4875 Vcore!!! So don't worry.

You may have to increase VTT to 1.21 or so voltage too.
 
This is fully stock, no oc.
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Forgot to mention,
Intel i7 860 2.8ghz
ATI Radeon 5850
 
Got my gtx285 in. A little more tweaking and I will be above Omega and Domain man haha, need to crack 23k on single GPU.

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zombine210 said:
question for Domain_man or 0mega,

are you running liquid cooling?
we pretty much have the same setup but i'm having a hard time breaking 22k.

i think it's my cpu, mind telling me what kind of clocks you're runnign? please...
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Hi zombine210 no just on air cooling, I use a Zalman 9700, with an intake fan and outake fan on the side of my case, I did not have to do any mods on my case just added the fans.

I think there was a link to the CPU-Z for my clocks at the time..

Apart from the cooling and the 4870x2, I give credit to the motherboard+ram combination to get to 4.2ghz to run 3Dmark and hit past 22k.
 
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Update on my rig.. 18,636

Cpu: Phenom II X4 965 (125w) @ 4.2ghz
Gpu: HD 4870 @ 875 - 1030
 
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oh you think yours is good hey??
you should check out mine...

had to use 3dmark 03..
this was my bad run.
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and this was my good run.
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hehe try and beat that suckaz!
courtesy of Microsoft paint! :)

lol fail i know.
 
Updated my graphics drivers, disabled aero on vista and an improved score on my 4.1GHz oc :)

When I get the chance will run 3D Mark 06 again on my 4.2GHz OC but so far happy with the improvements on ATI's latest update.

Also added these screencaps on my sig.

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Ohhh I see, I was getting close so you had to hammer me down eh? LOL

Oh well, still the fastest single GPU by far....woot!
 
Domain_Man said:
LOL :) didn't mean it honest!;) well done on the i5 OC at 4.3 by the way
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Thanks, on a $115 mobo too! This ASrock P55 pro is awsome for the money as long as you only run a good single card (which I have lol) since the second PCIe is only 4x and SLI is not supported.
 
you could probably get a cheap HD 4870X2 (single card) now that the 58xx series are out..I normally do my upgrades this time of the year but I'm gonna pass this year due to the credit crunch --- have dreams of an i7 rig or a 5970 card.. oh well! :)
 
Haha, it's not like you cannot play any game out there on your rig. Anything over 20k can play any game at any resolution pretty much right now.
 
yup, so true! especially when I hardly even play games anymore and was just thinking of improving my 3Dmark scores :D

maybe next year!
 
I don't know what wrong with mine... I had my 4870 X2 overclocked to 883/950 and got an SM2.0 score of 8374, and an SM3.0 score of 10978..
 
OMEGA, It's the CPU making the difference. Better CPU helps SM2 and SM3 scores. Big difference in scores just by switching to an I5 over a Phenom II on the SM2 and 3 scores, and of course CPU score even at same clocks same card same ram/speeds. What latency is your ram? It's only DDR2, that might hurt. I have DDR3-2000 ram. Plus, I have 3 SSD's in RAID 0, this has made the biggest difference in my setup by far. Everything is just faster, everything.

Here's the new score, a measely 35 points short of 3rd place. Still need some more tweaking!

CPU at 4.3ghz, and GPU at 800/950.

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Omega, how did you overclock higher than 800? CCC won't let me go higher than 800 core clock.
 
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