futuremark 3d 05 Benchmarks for 7800GTX

[Rinaun]

Overclock1
Running at 45C load.

System: XP 64 Professional Edition
Antec P180 Case
Maxtor Diamondmax 10 SATA 120GB HD
Geil Value RAM 2 GB's
Asus A8n Sli Deluxe (running at 34 Idle/37 Load)
1 x Geforce 7800GTX Evga KO Edition (w/ ACS3) (running at 45 idle/ 45-50 Load)
AMD 64 3700+ San Deigo 939 Overclocked to 4000+ (running at 34 Idle/45 Load)
Enermax 550W PSU

Settings: Basic Nvidia Profile
High Performance, APP controled everything.
No Vert Sync


That seem about right? i cant push it anymore on the video card. was running hot dl'ed Rivatuner increased fan speed to 95% and its very cold now. I cant push it because coolbits is not letting me. So is that about right? If i went sli GTX's would my CPU bottleneck the cards? thanks for any adivce you give.

-Rinaun

 

[RussianSensation]

Yeah that looks pretty good. I am sure you can overclock 3700+ to a bit more than 2.4ghz. I would have expected about 8700-8800 with that great overclock. If you went with SLI, your cpu wouldnt hold you too much since most current games are gpu limited (like FEAR, COD2, etc). However, I would highly advise against spending $400+ on a 2nd 7800GTX when very powerful refresh cards are around the corner and Q3 will see new generation. You'd be better off selling 7800GTX and upgrading it to G71/R580 or later to R500/G80 imo.

 

[videogames101]

That is a sweet overclock on the 7800GT, and at 45 full load... Is that stock cooling?

 

[Rinaun]

Stock. And now up to 570/1440. running 55C load.

 

[AntiStatic]

so... stock cooling or what?

 

[rise]

bench it at HQ, unless you actually game at HP.

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

That score seems a little low. I can eat that for breakfast at 480/1320, with my 3200+ @ 2.6.
It's really beating me, how are you getting those temps, and how is coolbits letting you overclock so high? I have to get my card sub 31C to get over 500 core.

 

[Rinaun]

Originally posted by: AntiStatic
so... stock cooling or what?

Stock cooling right now OC'ed to 540/1400 idle at 41C stock cooler Fan 95%

 

[Rinaun]

Originally posted by: XabanakFanatik
That score seems a little low. I can eat that for breakfast at 480/1320, with my 3200+ @ 2.6.
It's really beating me, how are you getting those temps, and how is coolbits letting you overclock so high? I have to get my card sub 31C to get over 500 core.

Dont use coolbits. Coolbits is a PITA. Use rivatuner.

 

[the cobbler]

that seems awfully low imho.

my 7800GT (not GTX) just murders that score @ 550/1389mhz...kinda strange...

 

[Rinaun]

I think its my HD its making clicking sounds recentlly and now when windows first boots it lags.

 

[the cobbler]

Originally posted by: Rinaun
I think its my HD its making clicking sounds recentlly and now when windows first boots it lags.

uh oh... crap...you better image your HDD soon...sounds like what happened before my DeathStar went spinning into oblivion

 

[Rinaun]

image? 'splain mor plz

 

[the cobbler]

If you have a spare or new HDD, you can just take an image of everthing on your current HDD and move it to another drive. That way if your HDD dies suddenly, you don't lose anything, just switch to the new one.

 

[Rinaun]

Good Idea ill do that in about a hour move everything to a ribbon drive i have