Getting ready to break my 3dmark 05 record with 6600GT

[Crescent13]

My record was 4002 on my 6600GT. I've booted into safe mode, cleaned out all ATI (my mobo), NVIDIA (my graphic card obviously), and CREATIVE (sound card) drivers and I've installed all the latest ones, CAT 5.9 IGP, ForceWare 81.84, and the new beta drivers from Creative that supposedly increase in game performance. I've updated the bios, tweaked the bios out, I ran spyware/adware/virus scans (about 8 I believe), Defragged the hard drive, dusted out the computer, I will be madly overclocking the GPU before I run it (My artifact free record was 595/1220, I hope to break that with the card dusted + the new drivers). I have also changed the windows settings from "adjust my system for best quality" to "adjust my system for highest performance", and I've switched the theme to windows classic. I will run crap cleaner before I start the tests, and I will disable all antivirus/firewall/otheruseles programs before I run also. Now here is where I need help, I'm in the driver settings, and I don't have the slightest clue as to what will get me the highest performance, how should I set theese things?

Conformant texture clamp: On or off?
Triliniar optimization: On or off?
Anisotropic mip filter optimization: On or off?
Anisotropic sample optimization: On or off?
Triple buffering: On or off?
Negative LOD bias: Clamp or Allow?

I just want to get the highest score at default settings in 3dmark 05, I don't care how good it looks. Could you help me with this? And is there anything else that I should do to increase performance?

EDIT: Oh yeah, I set the AGP Apature size to 2 GB in the bios, and I set the monitor scaling to "Monitor Scaling" instead of "GPU scaling".

EDIT2: I know 4000+ may not seem much to you guys with 7800GTX's, but I'm trying to see what I can squeeze out of my puny system. I can't overclock the CPU because of the way the MOBO was made, It just doesn't support overclocking. I searched on google and it was just the way it was built.

EDIT3: decided to edit the title to "break MY 3dmark 05 record" instead of "break THE 3dmark 05 record". I decided after 195 views something must be up.

 

[JBT]

turn all those on and clamp negative LOD Bias,
2GB on AGP apture size is WAY too high. 128 or 256 is more than enough.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Did you set the resolution and AA/AF to lowest?

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
Did you set the resolution and AA/AF to lowest?

AA/AF Yes

Resolution No

3dmark 05 runs at a default of 1024x768.

I'll lower the AGP apature size.

 

[Crescent13]

WOW THIS IS MESSED UP!!!!!!!

When I ran 3dmark 05 before, with automatic updates, fragged hard drive, virus scanners, and other various junk on, with the card at 595/1220 I got 4002

Now that I have disabled all background processes, updated all drivers, cleaned out old ones, defragged the hard drive, with the card at 595/1230 I get 3717

WTF IS UP WITH MY COMPUTER?!?!?!?!?!?

EDIT: I had system performance optimized for system cache last time, this time I had it optimized for programs, could that have made a 300 point difference?

 

[gac009]

try and find out.

 

[the Chase]

I have a 6600GT and had a 100 point drop when going to the new drivers as you did.(Back to back runs only switching drivers).

 

[JBT]

OCing the RAM a tad to far can lower performance.

 

[martinez]

I got 4082 with my card at its stock of 550/1120, without optimising my comp at all. Didn't run a clean install etc. When I then compared it to other 6600GTs I was well and truly owned. Me thinks you need to give up that dream of a top score

I have 3500+ clawhammer, 6600GT leadtek extreme, seagate 120 gig NCQ HDD, 2 gigs of value RAM(4x512 so running at 2T )

 

[Crescent13]

Wow this is all very interesting! I'll try running with all background programs running and with the 6600GT memory not overclocked as much. I'll post the results back to you.

 

[Crescent13]

I just finished running with backgound tasks on, and I decided to OC the card a little more, this time instead of 595/1230 it was at 600/1220 and I got

3700 (that's not rounded)

Do you think OC'ing the card is reducing my performance?

 

[the Chase]

no. what drivers were you running to get the 4002 score?

 

[Munky]

So do you plan on setting all the CP settings to high performance/low quality? IMO that makes the benchmark score worthless and irrelevant, because it compromises IQ. I'm sure my x800 would break 5000 with those kinds of cheats, but I wouldnt consider it a valid score either.