What SHOULD a 6800 GT get in 3DMark05

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: crsgardner
This is getting offtopic, but honestly: repeated questions is not something I get riled up over. Many of us have a career in IT (one way or another) and answer what we perceive to be "dumb questions" all the time. I don't know how many times I've explained to one user where the power button is, or how to create a folder.

If I'm getting paid to help people, it's one thing (and I HAVE worked in IT, so I know what it's like). The folks on here are volunteers, and I would hope people would thus think/search a little more before posting support questions here. You're also not wasting just *one* person's time on a board like this. I realize not everyone feels the same way, however.

I did a search and found nothing specifically referring to what (if any) performance-related differences would be between 3DMark05 and 3DMark05 Pro

Probably because there aren't any, nor have there ever been any between their other "regular" and "pro" versions. That's also not what your thread title and original post asked -- this would not have been a repetitive question.

or what would be considered a "stock" result for a 6800GT (although I did see a lot of "my GT is OC'd, and this is what I'm getting").

What is this board going to tell you beyond what those posts and FM's ORB will?

As for the score being too low, I don't think my question was the average "I'm an ATI 9600 on a spyware-infested Pentium 2... why is my score so low?" kind of post. This was more of a quizzical: "Fresh Windows install, RAID, 6800GT what the hell is going on?" I think anyone in my situation would have asked the same question (particularly when they assume nVidia would have semi-decent drivers on their site; I won't make that assumption again).

It just seemed from your post (maybe this isn't true, it's just how it looked) that you hadn't done a lot of the basic steps that are ALWAYS recommended in these kinds of threads -- check your settings (the old 'whoops, I have AA and AF on, no wonder it's half as fast as it should be!'), check your drivers, check that you don't have hardware conflicts, etc. Showing that you've done some legwork yourself goes a *long* way towards getting better responses.

 

[crsgardner]

Wow, quite a difference: Link

 

[jbrownos]

I get about 5200 with my system and card overclocked. Specs are in my signature. That's with the 66.81 drivers.

 

[Goi]

I went from <4000 to 5300+ with a driver upgrade and setting FSAA/AF to zilch on an otherwise identical system.