GTX 280 3DMark06 score

[liubros]

I got 16109 3dmarks on my new GTX 280, and I am pretty happy with it. The MSI OC version GTX is pretty good. The MSI software can let you OC even more.
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http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=7806533

 

[warezme]

A single old 8800GTX will do 14,000+ with Q6600 @ 3.6Ghz and two will do 18,000+, so yours is about right with Q6600 @ 3.0Ghz. If you goose that CPU up some I think you would be round 19,000.

 

[liubros]

my Q6600 is G0 stepping, and I should be able to push it further. but i am not very good at OC. my last MB is a ASUS P5N-E, and the MB died when i push beyond 370 FSB. It took me a lot of trouble to replace the MB.

I don't find any good thread about OC on EVGA 132-CK-NF78, the setting is quite different from ASUS board.

 

[rubix_1011]

Q6600 @4ghz and a 9800GTX @ 807 get ~16,100.

 

[liubros]

How do you get 4G on Q6600?

 

[kawininjazx]

I just got 16K with my Q9450 @3.4Ghz and my HD4870 OC'd as high as CCC will let me. I'm pretty happy.

I kind of miss my Q6600, I think I could have gotten 4Ghz out of it...


liubros, run 3dmark vantage and let me know what you get

 

[Dopekitten]

Um, how do you have 2816mb of RAM?

 

[kawininjazx]

probably cuz of a 32-bit OS

 

[liubros]

Yeah, it is 32-bit OS.

I have P10277 on 3dmark vantage, but that score is from the burnt P5N-E, I havenot installed vista yet after swtiching MB.


http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=291247

 

[rubix_1011]

How do you get 4G on Q6600?

Watercooling.

 

[closed_deal]

Isn't 16k a tad low, I get 19k2 e8400 @4.4 (basically a q6600 cpu score) with x2 3870's in crossfire (worse than a GTX 280 i believe)...

 

[rubix_1011]

Yeah, agreed. You would think the 280's would score much higher, even with stock CPU speeds; it should be a decent bump in GPU score...but apparently not.

 

[closed_deal]

In fact his CPU score was 700 points higher than mine and both SM 2.0 and 3.0 scores are minimum 1500 points lower... Think maybe the nVidia control panel needs to be setup correctly?

 

[invisik]

it should be a little higher then that.
i havent run 3dmark06 yet with my new rig but i ran 3dmarkvantage scoring P14653.
=]

 

[liubros]

can you post link to your 19k score?

 

[closed_deal]

No probs:

 

[liubros]

I just bumped CPU to 3.2g, and all sm2.0, sm3.0 cpu score went up.
I think my score hit a bottle throad set by CPU.

now the overall score is 16675
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=7821948

my cpu is acting funny, i can't do 400x8 no matter what voltage i put, even at 1.5v, it gets erro on prime 95. but when i put 355x9, it works stable at 1.35v

 

[closed_deal]

You mobo maybe struggling with the FSB (increase NB voltage) or the fact you have I'm guessing 4GB RAM maybe 4x1GB sticks. If thats the case you will overclock a lot easier if you remove 2 of the sticks.

Unles you really want to get your RAM 1:1 with your FSB just carry on overclocking with the standard x9 multiplier and change the FSB:RAM ratio.

 

[liubros]

there is not much i can do about northbridge. only 2 are marked as safe, 1.4 and 1.5, I am at 1.5 already. and the stock voltage for ram is 1.8-2.0, i can run it 2.025 and 444 fsb, when i did 3:4 at 333x9, but i feel it is better to run 1:1 at lower voltage, but i can be wrong.

3.2g might be the limit to this chip/mb. i went for 375x9 before i sleep, and the CPU did not past post. i think i am going to give up on pushing it further. 3.2g is not too bad for air cool. i will try H2O on my next rig.

i see 4870x2 is going strong. i just hope gtx280 will drop price so i can get another for sli. i really don't care how good is ati card. i am just a nvidia fan. the only thing i care about ati is it makes nvidia drop price

 

[falcodakrzz]

My 3mark06 score is pretty good then...I get 12500 with q9300 and 4850 stock. You shouldve gone with ATI dude, even though I prefer Nvidia if youd got a 4870x2 it wouldve been way better value than the gtx280.

 

[liubros]

I find this thread interesting, http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?cat=grfx&id=618&pagenumber=2

they tested some graphic cards, including gtx280 single, sli, agains 4850 crossfire, 3750x2 crossfire

Testbed
CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 3.2GHz
Memory: 2 x 1GB OCZ DDR3-1600MHz Memory Modules
Motherboard: ASUS Striker II Extreme
Optical/Hard Drives: Generic 8X DVDRW, Maxtor 80GB 7200RPM/8MB Cache SATA
Monitor: BENQ 24" LCD with 1920x1200 Resolution
Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate - 32bit
PSU: 1000W Silverstone PSU

The top score of 3DMark06 gots to 3870X2 Crossfire 18,931
Their single GTX280 scores 16,447, while i get 16,675. Now I am happy.

Still, it is less than the 19k score posted by closed_deal with 3870 crossfire

 

[closed_deal]

To be honest it's probably your CPU slightly limiting your GFX. I just checked my 3dmark scores when i had the AMD 6000+@ 3.5Ghz and the SM2/3 scores were 6044/7577 respectively now E8400 @4.4ghz 8703/9690, thats almost a 2k hick all round.

 

[liubros]

just installed lastest nvidia driver, and get a new 3d vantage score. the physix driver bump cpu score up so much, it is insane.

got P13566 3DMarks

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=307017

 

[closed_deal]

Spot on ... To be honest out of all this, it's how your games perform and not how good a synthetic score you can get. Most if not all games will run maxed 60+fps on your rig maybe even upto and beyond 1920x1200, so I personally wouldn't worry about Futuremark scores and start Frag'ing people .

 

[liubros]

I had pushed my Q6600 to 3.6g, and scored 18234.
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=8042925

I find something interesting. keep the FSB the same, but increase vcore will get a better score. ie, for the same 3.2g clock, same gtx280 setting, 1.5v vcore will get a higher score than 1.3v vcore score.