13000 good for 3dmark06 score?

iancarnage

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Hey, im running a e8400 Wolfdale OC to 3.6 ghz and a BFG 8800GT 512mb. I ran 3dmark06, and got a score of around 13,000. I was wondering if this was an average score, or If it was low.
 

iancarnage

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thanks for the feedback. I had never ran a benchmark on my system until this. Does anyone recommend another one to check. Or is there any changes I could make to improve my score.
 

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Try OCing? Sure, go for it. Just keep your eyes on the temps.
 

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Thats on an AMD PhenomX4 9600 BE at 2.6ghz core/ 2.4ghz NB-IMC with a Sapphire HD3870 video card, still need to do a bit of tweaking on the video, scoring lower on the video part than others with similar setups, but higher on the cpu score. Others with same proc and only up to 2.7ghz core are hitting 13k or higher with same vid card.
 

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It aint just about running 3dmark06 u gota make sure msot program s are shut down reduce ur visual settings on desktop, make sure ur nvidia slider is set to performance, etc etc.


All help.

You dont have quad though, so 13k is about right.
 

iancarnage

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I just posted on the motherboard section about the e8400 and mobos. I had an Asus P5N32 E and it will never be compatible with Wolfdale!! I flashed to the newest BIOS and still wouldnt run it at full power. I called Asus tech support and they told me that it would never accept wolfdale. Now I am using my Evga 680i LT board, which worked with no Bios flash. I know for sure all 680i LT, 680i, and 780i boards are compatible. But you have to make sure you buy XFX, Evga, BFG etc. Dont buy an Asus!!!
 

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Not necesarily but yeh, should. You will likely still be bottlenecked by the CPU too.

In 3dmark06 anyway.

Just a small OC of the GPU and another few hundred mhz on the CPU will get you a lot closer.
 

iancarnage

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i bumped up my cpu to 3.825 ghz and bumped my 8800gt to 700 core clock, 1753 shader clock and 1820 memory clock. I cant seem to get my 3dmark06 score to get above 13,000. I am wondering if I should get the full version, I am using the demo version as of now.
 

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13,000 is good. I only get 11500 with a 8800GT and a e6400 @ 3.0 Ghz. You may want a Yorkfiled instead of giving your Wolfdale too much stress.
Keep using the demo version - this is what most people use.
 

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I do a lot of video editing with my computer and visit this forum quite often for information. So tonight I decided to try 3dmark06 to see what my score would be and compared to the scores that you guys have been getting, I did not do to well. My score was a little over 5000 the first time. I then overclocked the GPU to 608/729 and got 5991. If I overclock any higher on the GPU it stops and says display driver failed and that is has reset. What's up? You can see my config below.
 
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dallasjoh, not to be mean but this is called hijacking a thread. However, your score is low because your video card is becoming dated. a quick google seach showed scores in the 5000 range for a x1950 pro. You are nearly at 6000 just because of your quad cpu