Gtx260 OC+3Dmark06

[Liderc]

Recently got a normal 260 and heard they were great overclocker's, as it turns out they are great overclocker's. I've got mine stable at 700/1200/1400 from 590/999/1296(clock/mem/shader). Ran ATI Artifact scanner for 10 minutes with 0 artifacts and never broke 65C. Gained about 10-12 FPS in most all of my games which is great, but I ran 3dmark06 and gained 500 points? Not that I care too much about synthetic benchmarks, but I've always run 3dmark more as a "everything is working properly" benchmark. I run a Q6600 at 3.2 24hour prime stable, so I don't think it would be bottlenecking the 260, but I guess you never know really. My question is shouldn't I have gained way more than 500 points with such an OC?

Scores

Normal OC'd
16136 16658
6642 6738
6934 7375
5050 5064

With my old 8800GT I went up almost 1200 points when I overclocked and it wasn't as extreme as this overclock.

Q6600 3.2
650i SLI Platinum
Gtx260 normal
620 Corsair
2gigs DDR2 Patriot 800mhz
Windows XP 32bit

 

[L1qu1d]

meh 3Dmark loves CPU more than Graphics cards. Sooo I wouldn't worry about it.

3Dmark is just another way of pushing the ppl to spend their money.

3Dmark03, 05, 06 and vantage, aren't supposed to run well for the current gen cards, its meant to stress your card out (judging by the scores your CPU more than anything). Its not really supposed to make you feel good about your rig.

You can run every game out now maxed except for Crysis thats what you should be happy about, not the stupid 3Dmark69

 

[Liderc]

/agreed, but I just felt like I should see more of an increase in the score since I noticed such a big jump when I OC'd my 8800GT.

Went from around 12300 to 1400 with my 8800GT OC and only 16000 to 16500 with my 260, just found it strange.

 

[L1qu1d]

3Dmark is really picky so it works in mysterious ways

 

[Liderc]

Appreciate the help Liquid, just going to let it ride, hopefully everything's alright.

 

[L1qu1d]

Go play games and forget about 3dmark

 

[chef_jd]

Your 3d mark scores are far better than mine and I am running sli 260's. I don't think they are very accurate.

 

[dagger]

Your 3d mark scores are far better than mine and I am running sli 260's. I don't think they are very accurate.

Are you sure sli is enabled?

Anyway, there are real game benchmarks to test oc out on.
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Crysis-Benchmark-Tool-1.05-Final-download-1791.html

I got a ~12 fps increase from oc, which is roughly the same percentage of 3dmark06 increase. But then, it's an old 8800gts. Maybe gtx260 don't respond well to oc?

 

[chef_jd]

Yes I am sure I have sli enabled. I get great real world results but crappy 3d mark scores.

 

[dagger]

Yes I am sure I have sli enabled. I get great real world results but crappy 3d mark scores.

3dmark06 responds well to sli/cf the last time I checked. Have you tried to compare real game results with sli enabled then disabled?

 

[chef_jd]

Yes I have for the games I currently have installed. I am redownloading the crysis benchmark and demo and running that again. I only get a 100 point difference in sli and non sli for 3dmark. I am not sure why I am getting such crppy esults in 3dmark06 as I am only around 14k with my sli. I guess my cpu is slowing me down, but when I had my sl setup before I was around 17k. Did a reformat since then and put a different card in.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/257116-31-wonder-3dmark

 

[chef_jd]

Crysis 1920x1200 verry high sli Overall Average FPS: 29.96
single card average FPS: 17.08

 

[Liderc]

I've always found 3dmark06 to be very accurate, hence the reason I was surprised at the small increase in points when I OC'd. I had 14000 with my 8800GT OC'd a small amount,so I've gained about 2k points from the upgrade to the 260 which is reasonable. Maybe you're using a dual core which will drop your scores a lot.