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UPDATE:
I've been a complete moron. When I did all the original benchmarking I was using Windows 7 64 bit. When I ran the benchamrk this morning I was in XP 32 bit.
Just re-ran it in Win7 and all is well.
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Sorry!!
Bit of an odd one....
I was a bit bored this morning so I decided to run 3DMark06, but as i was watching the scenarios it was pretty obvious that the fps were a lot lower than they were a week or 2 ago. When the end results came in the overall score was down 2000 points on what it was (16000 vs it's normal 18000+). Almost all of this was lost on the Shader Model 3 score (7400 vs previous 9500+).
I have only made two 'tweaks' to the computer in the last couple of weeks and that was to the DDR Reference Voltage, adding 30mV which gave far better Prime95 stability. By far better I mean that it was failing after 2 hours or so and it's now good for at least 24 hours.
The other change was lapping the processor and HSF.
SM2.0 score seems unaffected and the CPU is scoring a little better than it was.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing the loss of Shader Model 3 performance? It's quite a big percentage loss in performance and would like to get it back!!!!
System Specs:
2 off 1Gb HD4870 Crossfired
Asus Rampage Formula
4Gb DDR2 800
Q6600 OC to 3.4GHz
I've been a complete moron. When I did all the original benchmarking I was using Windows 7 64 bit. When I ran the benchamrk this morning I was in XP 32 bit.
Just re-ran it in Win7 and all is well.
Think first post later, think first post later, think first post later, think first post later, think first post later, think first post later, think first post later, think first post later,
Sorry!!
Bit of an odd one....
I was a bit bored this morning so I decided to run 3DMark06, but as i was watching the scenarios it was pretty obvious that the fps were a lot lower than they were a week or 2 ago. When the end results came in the overall score was down 2000 points on what it was (16000 vs it's normal 18000+). Almost all of this was lost on the Shader Model 3 score (7400 vs previous 9500+).
I have only made two 'tweaks' to the computer in the last couple of weeks and that was to the DDR Reference Voltage, adding 30mV which gave far better Prime95 stability. By far better I mean that it was failing after 2 hours or so and it's now good for at least 24 hours.
The other change was lapping the processor and HSF.
SM2.0 score seems unaffected and the CPU is scoring a little better than it was.
Does anyone have any idea what could be causing the loss of Shader Model 3 performance? It's quite a big percentage loss in performance and would like to get it back!!!!
System Specs:
2 off 1Gb HD4870 Crossfired
Asus Rampage Formula
4Gb DDR2 800
Q6600 OC to 3.4GHz
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