OMG KIll me now..........

[covert24]

WOW, i guess my new video card is going to be the next upgrade...........
Might as well give up now....lol

Don't look at me....

anything i can do to my graphics card to up the score a bit over here haha. kinda embarrassed. :frown:

EDIT- CPU was at stock speeds.

 

[swtethan]

i get 145000

 

[taltamir]

i dont even know or care what it means... 3dmark is crap.

I do see that its a 8600 though... that is bad... upgrade it.

The GF9 comes out soon... your card is ENOUGH to wait until then...

 

[covert24]

Originally posted by: swtethan
i get 145000

lol thanks for digging the grave a little deeper there buddy :laugh:

Originally posted by: taltamir
i dont even know or care what it means... 3dmark is crap.

I do see that its a 8600 though... that is bad... upgrade it.

The GF9 comes out soon... your card is ENOUGH to wait until then...

ill probably upgrade in a couple months. have like no money... I should have kept my old 7950gt KO SC instead of getting this piece.....

 

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: covert24
WOW, i guess my new video card is going to be the next upgrade...........
Might as well give up now....lol

Don't look at me....

anything i can do to my graphics card to up the score a bit over here haha. kinda embarrassed. :frown:

EDIT- CPU was at stock speeds.

Overclock it!

 

[covert24]

this thing already idles at 50*C. whats the threshold for these things?

 

[swtethan]

Originally posted by: covert24
lol thanks for digging the grave a little deeper there buddy :laugh:

no problem! its 14,500 btw lol not 145,000

 

[sutahz]

I saw some benches that showed the 8600GT outperforming the 7800GT (yes 78, not the same as your 79 I understand) in Crysis and CoD4, shaders are important these days. Do you (vaguely?) remember your 3DMark scores from your 7950? Seems you sold it, not like it was getting any more valuable. What resolution do you play at?
3DMark isnt the end all of end alls, but it's a good reference point. Playing a game and deciding what is acceptable and what is very subjective.

 

[error8]

Originally posted by: covert24

Originally posted by: swtethan
i get 145000

lol thanks for digging the grave a little deeper there buddy :laugh:

Originally posted by: taltamir
i dont even know or care what it means... 3dmark is crap.

I do see that its a 8600 though... that is bad... upgrade it.

The GF9 comes out soon... your card is ENOUGH to wait until then...

ill probably upgrade in a couple months. have like no money... I should have kept my old 7950gt KO SC instead of getting this piece.....

That 7950 was so much better then your 8600GTS.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: covert24
lol thanks for digging the grave a little deeper there buddy :laugh:

no problem! its 14,500 btw lol not 145,000

lmao! i was gonna say...

WTF you running?

 

[Phunk0ne]

are you serious, E8400 and running stock Go 4GHz GO!

 

[Amaroque]

'OMG KIll me now.......... '

Okay DIE! :beer:

 

[BonzaiDuck]

That IS . . . a LOW 3DMark06. Both processor and VGA clock settings affect it.

It just seems way too low to me. I only have a single 8800 GTS 640MB card with my C2Q-Q6600, and I got 11,500 3DMarks.

If you want to over-clock the VGA, get both ATI-Tool and RivaTuner -- install both.

Give attention to detail, or you'll crash the system in the process, but ATITool will test both GPU and graphics memory clocks automatically at ascending settings. You're best to do a little research at some forums and get a handle on what the maximums are likely to be with your 8600 card, then fix ceilings in ATITool.

Once you have that range, you can choose settings within the range using RivaTuner. If you OC the card through ATITool, I suspect that it will lead to instability. And RivaTuner allows you to choose default settings that are recorded in the system registry and set at boot-up. This way, you don't have to flash the VGA BIOS with the chosen values.

I think that OC'ing my 8800 GTS from 850/792 to 875/900 bought me 1,000 3DMark points in 3DMark06. I could be wrong, but I think it was so.

 

[DSF]

Originally posted by: swtethan

Originally posted by: covert24
lol thanks for digging the grave a little deeper there buddy :laugh:

no problem! its 14,500 btw lol not 145,000

I was going to say, you must've had an engineering sample of the 9900GTX UltraMega SSSSSC XXX Alpha Dog Atomic Juice OMG!!!11 edition.

In quintuple SLI.

 

[covert24]

Originally posted by: sutahz
I saw some benches that showed the 8600GT outperforming the 7800GT (yes 78, not the same as your 79 I understand) in Crysis and CoD4, shaders are important these days. Do you (vaguely?) remember your 3DMark scores from your 7950? Seems you sold it, not like it was getting any more valuable. What resolution do you play at?
3DMark isnt the end all of end alls, but it's a good reference point. Playing a game and deciding what is acceptable and what is very subjective.

I couldnt even begin to tell you what my previous scores were. and besides they wouldnt really matter because i had that card when i had my amd system. I play COD4 at 1440x900 and i get actually a decent framerate. i think like 50-70fps.

and ill try to overclock it now. no harm in squeezing some juice out of this thing i guess. ill post back with my max oc and my 'new' score....

 

[BlueAcolyte]

You have a E8400 and you haven't OC'd it by 25% at least? You should die.

 

[covert24]

lol i got it to 4ghz with the help of jaredpace but it was loading at around 70-73 so i shut it off and went to default. i ave a cooler master hyper tx2. awaiting on my friend to buy some parts from me so i can get a TRUE .

and i tried to oc my vid card and F that. can only get to like 700/1020 from 675/1008 and i get errors.....

 

[covert24]

im now updating my bios to beta 16.03 for my ip35 pro and just re-flashed my video card back to its original bios.

 

[brencat]

Originally posted by: covert24
lol i got it to 4ghz with the help of jaredpace but it was loading at around 70-73 so i shut it off and went to default. i ave a cooler master hyper tx2. awaiting on my friend to buy some parts from me so i can get a TRUE .

:laugh: E8400 stock + 8600gts = FTFL!

I realize 4ghz might be pushing it with the TX2 but there IS a happy medium...say 3.6ghz??

 

[covert24]

Originally posted by: brencat

Originally posted by: covert24
lol i got it to 4ghz with the help of jaredpace but it was loading at around 70-73 so i shut it off and went to default. i ave a cooler master hyper tx2. awaiting on my friend to buy some parts from me so i can get a TRUE .

:laugh: E8400 stock + 8600gts = FTFL!

dam straight hahaha

ill take your word and oc it back to 3.6

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I don't get it. He can get his processor to nearly 800 Mhz above what I'll dare; he's upset that he can't OC his graphix card by a narrow increment on both core and memory, but his VGA memory outstrips my over-clock by 100 Mhz.

How does he get such a low 3DMar06?

 

[covert24]

alrighty just ran it again with my 3.6ghz oc and my cpu score went up quite a bit. however my video card dropped a few notches?! i turned on all the tests and when it start the triangle ones my gpu read 91*C LOL. fan-fukin-tastic....

check it - http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/3186/19475787gl5.png

 

[brencat]

What Forceware drivers are you using?

 

[covert24]

the latest. 169.21

 

[angry hampster]

Those seem low even for the 8600GTS. I was able to get 6200 3dmarks with my old 8600GTS and athlon x2 4800+ running at 2.7GHz. Score now is around 10k I believe.