My BenchMarks "7800 GTX"

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Ive just done my first run through 3DMark05 and PCMark04. Ill keep posting as I run more benchies. If some of you will start making suggestions on which settings I should be tweaking it would help alot. Keep in mind that ive been using the X800XL for the past few months and im not familiar with NVIDIA. Im not going to OC the card untill I get All the performance settings where they need to be.

The first run brings mixed feelings. Maybe confusion would be the correct word. For now, the 7800 is running stock. The X800XL scores are all OCd. My CPU, RAM, .... are all set the same so the only differences are the video cards. ATI OCd the 7800 is running stock.

3DMark05

ATI X800XL - 6116
7800 GTX - 8186

PCMark04 Graphics test scores only!

ATI X800XL - 2588.09
7800 GTX - 2185.45 ?????????????????????????????

I knew that I wouldnt see a huge jump in the overall score for PCMark 04 but WTF? There is a huge gap in 3DMark05 but the X800XL in the 04 graphics test kicked the 7800 GTX's AS5! Any thoughts?


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The 04 score is only the one graphics test in the bundle. Its not the full PCMark score. What are you getting in 3Dmark05? Im using the drivers that came with the card. Future mark show it as 7.7.5

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Are you sure your not smoking crack? The 05 score is ok isnt it?

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...crap. Um, yeah - this crack is the sh|t as you can tell. My bad, it is almost 4am here though.

Yeah your 05 is fine, don't have a clue about your PC mark though as I've never used it.

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Your 05 is actually quite good for unoverclocked...(you got one that runs at 430/1200, right? I forgot what you said before and I'm really tired [and it's only 12:25!, jeeze]).

I bet mine'll be higher though. :tongue:

Of course, I have the benefit of the higher stock clocks :smile: . (unless you got the BFG too, which I think was out of stock everywhere when you ordered)

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I really wouldn't worry about PCmark2004 graphics score, odds are it's a driver problem, but in real-life apps, it makes next to no difference.

Oh yeah moz, remember a stock x800xl in 3dmark03 stores 5000, so that boost is nice. Oh moz what are you going to do with that huge VGA waterblock?
 

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3DMark 03

X800XL OCd - 13902
7800 GTX stock - 17972

Other than the odd score in the graphics test for PCMark04 the stock 7800 is way ahead. This last benchmark really heated the card up. Im using it as it came. All stock. This card is really long and heats up to around 60C over most of the back side. Checking temps with an Infrared temp gauage. Im useing a Thermaltake Shark series case so its a full tower and on the large side for that category. My case has an HD rack that almost comes into contact with the end of the video card. Ive got doubts as to this card even fitting in my Thermaltake Tsunami. Just something to keep in mind if your considering this card. So far, its blown my expectations away. The detail is better than I have ever seen, of course keep in mind that im not a gamer so I probably havent seen some of the things that many of you have. One thing that I hate and I do mean HATE about the card is that it exhaust into the heart of the case. Im having to run a really fast slot cooler under the card to deal with the heat that the video card deposits in the case. I run my two 120 fans opposite of how the factory set them. My rear fan is the intake and the front is the exhaust. This is a huge plus with the 7800. If they were running the other way then the whole mobo would be hit with all that heat that is generated in the case.

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Do you want it?

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Liar Liar Liar!! You're making it all up! I shall not rest until I've completely blackened your name! :wink:

<pre>I am joking, btw...</pre><p>
Nice card (nice scores!), although it's depressing to see someone who's "Not a Gamer" still splash out on one of these.

And come on, OC it already :evil:

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3d Mark 05 i get ~4700....thats 57% of that.
And i suspect it could go faster if my cpu was a little quicker.

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No thx, i've got a good waterblock and some hacked up processor heatsink as ramsink already, still the reason why i asked was because i've heard there's a possibility to separate the gpu block from the ram block on those koolance all in one waterblocks. If you separate it youc an still use that GPU heatsink on the 7800GTX.

BTW GREAT SCORE!!
 

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Correct me if I'm wrong but
One thing that I hate and I do mean HATE about the card is that it exhaust into the heart of the case.

My rear fan is the intake and the front is the exhaust. This is a huge plus with the 7800.
Why would you first hate the flaw with the card and now call it a plus?

BTW I now officially hate you for surpassing me so much! :tongue:

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In the first quote, he's talking about the Gfx card, and the second quote he's actually referring to his Case's cooling setup - not really directly referring to the card itself.

Re-read it d00d....

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No, I screwed that up. What I meant by "It being a plus with the 7800" is that by having my rear case fan as the intake and the front case fan as the exhaust that this combo worked very good because the 7800 is so damn long that its in the front half of the case. So if my case fans were running normal then I would have a real heat issue.

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4 screws and 2 strips of sticky tape is all that holds it.

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Nice card (nice scores!), although it's depressing to see someone who's "Not a Gamer" still splash out on one of these.
LOL, this is how bad it really is. The detail is so much better than with my XL. I thought that I was seeing artifacts on the last test in 3DMark05 so I stopped the test at least 7 times before I figured out that the artifacts were actually ripples and drops of water. My video card history went like this. My compaq had 4MB of RAM on its video card. That computer was made in 1998 and that was my computer from 1999 up to around 1 year ago. My first build I had a ATI 9600 then a 6600GT and X700 Pro at the same time. The XL was the biggest leap other than the compaq to the 9600. Going from the XL to this one blows me away. If video games didnt piss me off so bad I would play them just to see the graphics. My blood pressure get high and stays high when I get to close to video games.

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Your late if yuo are just now jumping on that wagon :tongue:

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Liar Liar Liar!! You're making it all up! I shall not rest until I've completely blackened your name! :tongue:
Shut the fu<b></b>ck up.

That was a completely different situation where he had a bug, these are repeatable by everyone.

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From what I have seen of Koolance waterblocks they tend to be somewhaz universal. They change the housing or the enclosure but many time the same block that could be used on a NB can also go on the CPU or the CPU. This would work fine. Ive even got brackets to do with. As of now, im not sure that im going to liquid cool the card. It gets hot, but it has two things going for it. One its long, way to long but it distributes and gets rid of the heat really fast. Problem being that it dumps it into the case. For many people this could be a serious stability issue. If I didnt watch the temps as close as I do my CPU or NB could have easily gotten to hot. While on ranting about the heat, It does have a negative impact on my RAM. I think the answer is going to be a piece of flex line. Im thinking about getting a piece that would swallow the Video card. I could cut the bottom 180 the length of the card. Heat rises so it would be like a canopy. Then the remainder of the flew line would be fully enclosed and run the final lenght of my case. My front 120 fan is the exhaust already so with the fan on the card and the suction or vacume from the front 120 it should take care of 90% of the heat.

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Here are the high end results from today except for my best PCMark 05 score which has just vanished. I run benchmarks for at least 30 mins before I even think about sending in scores. The down side is that alot can happen to that file in that time frame. I think Data corruption got this one. As high as I run my PCIexpress frequency it doesnt take long to crap out a RAID Aray. Im going to let you guys in on a little secret. When you ask what you should do about PCIexpress fre when clocking high speeds the answer is almost always the same. Lock it between 100 to 105 Mhz. WRONG! This is one of the major reasons that people get stuck at a certain speed and just cant seem to go any higher. If anyone cares to discuss the technical side of it we can start a new thread but for now lets keep it simple. It does not work like the AGP/PCI lock. This is a different animal. My board has a range of 90Mhz - 160Mhz. Why in the hell would the manufacture put the sweet spot all the way at the bottom of the scale? Because there is no all around sweet spot. It has to increase as your clock speed increases. Its hell to get it tuned correctly. Just to prove my case, at one pont today my PCIexpress fre was at 155Mhz and that particular run produced my highest 03 score.

3DMark 05

7800 GTX - 8417
X800XL - 6116

3DMark03

7800 GTX - 18913
X800XL - 13902

PCMark04

7800 GTX - 7334
X800XL - 7526 ??????????????????????????????

PCMark 05

7800 GTX - 6324
ATI X800XL - TO TIRED TO FOOL WITH IT :tongue:

If someone can explain the PCMark 04 results, I would love to hear your idea. I think that I have a good idea of what is going on, but its going to take some more benching before I start that flamewar. The 03 scores were the best, but the 05 scores are very high also. Nice card, but you may walk around with a strange limp, at least until you get used to your wallet weighing so much less.

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