Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks - Page 3

emeritus · April 26th, 2007

I must be doing something wrong...I got 9453, with my setup!!!

segamil · June 26th, 2007

screenshot of my 3dmark results. Everything is stock, no tweaks. How would I go about improving the scores?

**Aprox** · June 26th, 2007

Not sure why you are worried about a 3DMark 06 score, it doesn't really mean much.

That 7600 is your main problem, it only has 128bit memory interface which is going to slow you down a lot, especially with a shader intensive benchmark such as 3Dmark 06. Besides checking your drivers, making sure the Nvidia control panel is not overriding anything and cleaning your computer of any spyware or other junk. There is not much you can really do. Vista is slower than XP for gaming, so that might help you out a bit if you still have a copy of XP laying around. Your CPU is fine, just upgrade that GPU!!

**Steevo** · July 16th, 2007

I hit 5400 last night. X2 3800+ and X1800XT

**Unleashed** · August 27th, 2007

I got 10067, is that good?

**Steevo** · January 4th, 2008

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=4512092

9200 with my HD3870 @ 855 core 1210 mem.

**Steevo** · January 12th, 2008

New 2Gb kit of OCZ runs better than my old 1Gb kit. 223Mhz @ 2.3.2.5 T1

It also allowed a better overclock on this processor. 2.67Ghz at 1.44vcore

Thus a new and improved 9402 3D06 score.

**LeeJend** · January 22nd, 2008

Finished my upgrade and now I know what "Return to Procyon" is supposed to look like, lol.

8568 Score is about 1000 light for my new rig, but 5x faster than my old rig. Time to start cleaning and optimizing this was not a clean XP install I just wiped the drivers and devices out of Device Mangler and dropped in the new MB.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=4829228

64 X2 4800 (2.5 gig), 3dmark claims it is a sempron mobile CPU???
EVGA 8800 GT, stock speeds
2 GB, 6400 RAM, 5-5-5-16, PQI turbo RAM which CPUz says is only running at 350mhz
?divider issue on MB?
POS (you'd think I'd learn...) ECS nforce6M-A (MCP61 chipset)

The MB/CPU is temporary and the RAM goes to 4 GB as soon as I can get a local deal.

The 8800GT is a thing of beauty. Quiet, relatively low power usage, single slot, and fast.

**Steevo** · January 22nd, 2008

I thought the 8800's were faster than the 3870's? I contemplated getting one, but with 10.1 (that may never be used) and they scale better in X-fire and overclocking.

Perhaps you will gain with a system cleaning and overclocking...

On your board/memory issue, do you have cool and quiet enabled?

I managed to get my CPU up a few more Mhz, by dropping the vcore to 1.38. It was hitting 54C running the SMP of F@H, now it runs 47C @ 2.7Ghz

Next up for me is a full system upgrade.
2 SAS 15K disks on a dedicated LSI PCI-e card
1 750Gb Storage drive
Dual boot Vista/XP
Either a phenom if the fix they implemented works and the new 45nm clocks better, or a quad core Intel.
Another 3870 for X-fire.
Keeping my current 3870, sound card, Tuner card, and peripherals.

**LeeJend** · January 24th, 2008

I tried manually setting the ram to full speed and the MB dropped my clock to 12x cutting my CPU speed to compenstae. Probably a feature with ECS's MB.

I will up the FSB from 200 to 207 which I think will give me optimum memory and a slight CPU overclock.

My 3dmark06 score is probably good. Digging deeper it looks like the 9500 score was overclcoked GPU. They don't show the gpu clock speed in the listings.

I purged my system and registry, flashed bios and updated all drivers and the score stayed the same. My cpu score was actually higher than some people with the same cpu/gpu so they appear to be overclocking the stock 8800GT (it is overclcok friendly but I have no reason to yet).

I will disable cool and quiet to see if it helps. it does not seem to be working as far as i can tell from CPUz. Yes I installed hte latest amd k8 drivers.

EdiT
I broke out the old overclcoking tools...
9134 which I can live with: GPU,650/1000 and CPU 210 (up from 650/900 & 200) CPU did not like being overclocked at all. 65W model and I have no voltage controls...

on this MB.
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=4915030

**Steevo** · March 21st, 2008

http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=14

**Steevo** · March 21st, 2008

BTW, with the newer BIOS I can run 907Core but the fan makes more noise than I like, so I run 855 with the older slower fan BIOS.

emeritus · March 26th, 2008

Well, I just upgraded my system again, and I scored a 15003. Check out my sig for the changes.

**Sazar** · March 26th, 2008

I was bored and bought an 8800 GTS (G92) OC version

Will bench it later I guess.

emeritus · March 26th, 2008

Both of my 8800GTSs are stock versions, but I easily overclocked them to the SSC rated version from eVGA. Running 740/1980/1835,GPU/MEM/Shader. They both idle at about 40-45C, and at 50-55C under load.

**Steevo** · March 30th, 2008

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=6004277

**Electronic Punk** · April 2nd, 2008

Not quite sure what to make of this:
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=6046137

**Sazar** · April 2nd, 2008

It's cute.

emeritus · June 22nd, 2008

Well, I just upgraded again, and now I scored 17403. I guess its time again to install vista and use 3DMark Vantage!

Mizzle · June 22nd, 2008

No wonder - your machine is a beast!

April 26th, 2007	Top \| #41
emeritus Beware the Monkeys!!! Joined: January 2004 Location: Oakdale, CT Posts: 332 Reputation: 200 Power: 80	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks I must be doing something wrong...I got 9453, with my setup!!!
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June 26th, 2007	Top \| #42
segamil OSNN Addict Joined: April 2002 Location: Washington DC Posts: 137 Reputation: 10 Power: 98	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks screenshot of my 3dmark results. Everything is stock, no tweaks. How would I go about improving the scores? Attached Thumbnails

June 26th, 2007	Top \| #43
Aprox OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: August 2004 Location: California, USA Posts: 2,884 Blog Entries: 1 Reputation: 1830 Power: 114	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks Not sure why you are worried about a 3DMark 06 score, it doesn't really mean much. That 7600 is your main problem, it only has 128bit memory interface which is going to slow you down a lot, especially with a shader intensive benchmark such as 3Dmark 06. Besides checking your drivers, making sure the Nvidia control panel is not overriding anything and cleaning your computer of any spyware or other junk. There is not much you can really do. Vista is slower than XP for gaming, so that might help you out a bit if you still have a copy of XP laying around. Your CPU is fine, just upgrade that GPU!!
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July 16th, 2007	Top \| #44
Steevo Spammer representing. Joined: September 2004 Posts: 2,623 Blog Entries: 2 Reputation: 1630 Power: 110	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks I hit 5400 last night. X2 3800+ and X1800XT
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August 27th, 2007	Top \| #45
Unleashed We Speak Geek Joined: July 2003 Location: Fredericton, Canada ex Norwich, England ex Hougang, Singapore ex Durban, South Africa Posts: 1,248 Reputation: 460 Power: 97	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks I got 10067, is that good? Attached Thumbnails
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January 4th, 2008	Top \| #46
Steevo Spammer representing. Joined: September 2004 Posts: 2,623 Blog Entries: 2 Reputation: 1630 Power: 110	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=4512092 9200 with my HD3870 @ 855 core 1210 mem.
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January 12th, 2008	Top \| #47
Steevo Spammer representing. Joined: September 2004 Posts: 2,623 Blog Entries: 2 Reputation: 1630 Power: 110	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks New 2Gb kit of OCZ runs better than my old 1Gb kit. 223Mhz @ 2.3.2.5 T1 It also allowed a better overclock on this processor. 2.67Ghz at 1.44vcore Thus a new and improved 9402 3D06 score. Attached Thumbnails
	Meow. Equal oppertunity hater.

January 22nd, 2008	Top \| #48
LeeJend OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: January 2003 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 5,192 Reputation: 2950 Power: 167	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks Finished my upgrade and now I know what "Return to Procyon" is supposed to look like, lol. 8568 Score is about 1000 light for my new rig, but 5x faster than my old rig. Time to start cleaning and optimizing this was not a clean XP install I just wiped the drivers and devices out of Device Mangler and dropped in the new MB. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=4829228 64 X2 4800 (2.5 gig), 3dmark claims it is a sempron mobile CPU??? EVGA 8800 GT, stock speeds 2 GB, 6400 RAM, 5-5-5-16, PQI turbo RAM which CPUz says is only running at 350mhz ?divider issue on MB? POS (you'd think I'd learn...) ECS nforce6M-A (MCP61 chipset) The MB/CPU is temporary and the RAM goes to 4 GB as soon as I can get a local deal. The 8800GT is a thing of beauty. Quiet, relatively low power usage, single slot, and fast.
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January 22nd, 2008	Top \| #49
Steevo Spammer representing. Joined: September 2004 Posts: 2,623 Blog Entries: 2 Reputation: 1630 Power: 110	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks I thought the 8800's were faster than the 3870's? I contemplated getting one, but with 10.1 (that may never be used) and they scale better in X-fire and overclocking. Perhaps you will gain with a system cleaning and overclocking... On your board/memory issue, do you have cool and quiet enabled? I managed to get my CPU up a few more Mhz, by dropping the vcore to 1.38. It was hitting 54C running the SMP of F@H, now it runs 47C @ 2.7Ghz Next up for me is a full system upgrade. 2 SAS 15K disks on a dedicated LSI PCI-e card 1 750Gb Storage drive Dual boot Vista/XP Either a phenom if the fix they implemented works and the new 45nm clocks better, or a quad core Intel. Another 3870 for X-fire. Keeping my current 3870, sound card, Tuner card, and peripherals.
	Meow. Equal oppertunity hater.

January 24th, 2008	Last edited by LeeJend; January 27th, 2008 at 3:53am. \| Top \| #50
LeeJend OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: January 2003 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 5,192 Reputation: 2950 Power: 167	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks I tried manually setting the ram to full speed and the MB dropped my clock to 12x cutting my CPU speed to compenstae. Probably a feature with ECS's MB. I will up the FSB from 200 to 207 which I think will give me optimum memory and a slight CPU overclock. My 3dmark06 score is probably good. Digging deeper it looks like the 9500 score was overclcoked GPU. They don't show the gpu clock speed in the listings. I purged my system and registry, flashed bios and updated all drivers and the score stayed the same. My cpu score was actually higher than some people with the same cpu/gpu so they appear to be overclocking the stock 8800GT (it is overclcok friendly but I have no reason to yet). I will disable cool and quiet to see if it helps. it does not seem to be working as far as i can tell from CPUz. Yes I installed hte latest amd k8 drivers. EdiT I broke out the old overclcoking tools... 9134 which I can live with: GPU,650/1000 and CPU 210 (up from 650/900 & 200) CPU did not like being overclocked at all. 65W model and I have no voltage controls... on this MB. http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=4915030
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March 21st, 2008	Top \| #51
Steevo Spammer representing. Joined: September 2004 Posts: 2,623 Blog Entries: 2 Reputation: 1630 Power: 110	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=14 Attached Thumbnails
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March 21st, 2008	Top \| #52
Steevo Spammer representing. Joined: September 2004 Posts: 2,623 Blog Entries: 2 Reputation: 1630 Power: 110	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks BTW, with the newer BIOS I can run 907Core but the fan makes more noise than I like, so I run 855 with the older slower fan BIOS.
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March 26th, 2008	Top \| #53
emeritus Beware the Monkeys!!! Joined: January 2004 Location: Oakdale, CT Posts: 332 Reputation: 200 Power: 80	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks Well, I just upgraded my system again, and I scored a 15003. Check out my sig for the changes.
	eVGA 780i (nForce v15.17) Intel Q9450 Quad-Core (Running @ 3.2Ghz w/1600Mhz FSB) Zalman CNPS9700 LED CPU Cooler OCZ Platinum PC2-8500 4Gb DDR2 RAM (4x1GB, Dual Channel) eVGA 8800GTS(G92) 512 x2 SLI (GeForce v177.79) Samsung 750Gb SATAII HD x2 LG GSA-H55N/L DVD+/-RW x2 Thermaltake Armor VA8003BWS Black Case Ultra X3 1000W PS Windows XP:Pro SP3 Gateway FHD2400 24" 1920 x 1200 LCD

March 26th, 2008	Top \| #54
Sazar F@H - Is it in you? Joined: April 2002 Location: Between Austin and Tampa Posts: 14,941 Reputation: 4110 Power: 287	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks I was bored and bought an 8800 GTS (G92) OC version Will bench it later I guess.
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March 26th, 2008	Top \| #55
emeritus Beware the Monkeys!!! Joined: January 2004 Location: Oakdale, CT Posts: 332 Reputation: 200 Power: 80	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks Both of my 8800GTSs are stock versions, but I easily overclocked them to the SSC rated version from eVGA. Running 740/1980/1835,GPU/MEM/Shader. They both idle at about 40-45C, and at 50-55C under load.
	eVGA 780i (nForce v15.17) Intel Q9450 Quad-Core (Running @ 3.2Ghz w/1600Mhz FSB) Zalman CNPS9700 LED CPU Cooler OCZ Platinum PC2-8500 4Gb DDR2 RAM (4x1GB, Dual Channel) eVGA 8800GTS(G92) 512 x2 SLI (GeForce v177.79) Samsung 750Gb SATAII HD x2 LG GSA-H55N/L DVD+/-RW x2 Thermaltake Armor VA8003BWS Black Case Ultra X3 1000W PS Windows XP:Pro SP3 Gateway FHD2400 24" 1920 x 1200 LCD

June 22nd, 2008	Top \| #60
Mizzle Oh, now I know...! Joined: May 2008 Location: Denmark Posts: 347 Reputation: 210 Power: 28	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks No wonder - your machine is a beast!
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emeritus Beware the Monkeys!!! Joined: January 2004 Location: Oakdale, CT Posts: 332 Reputation: 200 Power: 80	Re: Futuremark's 3DMark06 Benchmarks Well, I just upgraded again, and now I scored 17403. I guess its time again to install vista and use 3DMark Vantage!
	eVGA 780i (nForce v15.17) Intel Q9450 Quad-Core (Running @ 3.2Ghz w/1600Mhz FSB) Zalman CNPS9700 LED CPU Cooler OCZ Platinum PC2-8500 4Gb DDR2 RAM (4x1GB, Dual Channel) eVGA 8800GTS(G92) 512 x2 SLI (GeForce v177.79) Samsung 750Gb SATAII HD x2 LG GSA-H55N/L DVD+/-RW x2 Thermaltake Armor VA8003BWS Black Case Ultra X3 1000W PS Windows XP:Pro SP3 Gateway FHD2400 24" 1920 x 1200 LCD