3DMark06 Score Jump and OC Questions

[JustinTD79]

One night I had a score of 8422 on the newly built machine in my sig, and the next night I got a 10,067 after doing nothing more than updating the motherboard bios/driver and video card bios. This screenshot shows the results and my voltages and temps right after the test. I've never overclocked anything before, so can anyone tell me what it looks like I should do from here?

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/4028/3dmark062im.jpg

 

[stogez]

Start raising your FSB by 5mhz increments or so. You should be able to hit 3ghz on stock voltages.

 

[Decado]

I didn't realize the motherboard and video card had a bios. I thought the bios was something completely separate

What was the largest increase(s) in your score from? CPU, video card? Updating drivers/bios can make a difference, depending where you started.

BTW, what program do you use to see your temperatures and voltages? That looks handy.

 

[JustinTD79]

I went to the eVGA site and downloaded their updated 8800GTX bios and 680i SLI bios. The temp/voltage thing is an nVidia program that came on the motherboard driver disk. I think it was called nMonitor.

Originally, I had an Athlon 64 3200+, an ATI Radeon X800XL 256MB PCI-e, and 1GB ram. My score was 1717 with that setup. I couldn't get Rainbow Six Vegas to even get to the title screen. Then I replaced the Radeon with the 8800GTX and got somewhere in the mid-5000's. Rainbow Six played, but it still was choppy in some places. Then I got rid of the Athlon 64 and mobo and replaced it with the 680i SLI and a E6600 Core 2 Duo, and that put me at 8422 initially, which pissed me off. Then I updated the mobo and video card bios and updated the mobo driver as well, and my score was then 10,067. I haven't tried any games on it yet.