Sign in with
Sign up | Sign in

Reply to this thread

Forum question

Started by MasterDell | | 7 answers
Low firestrike score on new rig?
Hi guys I iust built my new rig and usually I am the one helping people but I want to know what you think. My rig: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/6XjhYJ

Problem is that when I updated the drivers and everything I got a Fs score of 9600. I rebooted and got about 10050. I then OCed the GPU to the max it could go on the boost clock in gpu tweak. I am steady at about 1273 for base clock. Then I ran FS again and got 10549. Others were getting about 800 score higher with the same clock speed ish and same stats. This includes same GPu. Why is this? Yes I have all updated drivers.
  • By posting on this site, I confirm I am over 13 years of age and agree to abide by the site’s rules.

October 17, 2014 7:30:07 PM

I ran heaven and got 2258. Graphics on Ultra at 1080p with no AA Is that good? Fps floated from aout 95-102FPS on average. No OC on anything

*EDIT* Score of 1417. 1080p 8xAA Ultra with extreme tessellation.
That is a terrible score.. I really don't know what the issue is. going to be running prime95 for about 9 hours. Others were getting way better with worse specs. A guy with a i7-920 and a GTX 780 got 1565. What the actual ____
October 17, 2014 2:59:33 PM

Try using Heaven Benchmark and post your results.
October 17, 2014 2:40:26 PM

Weird..highest I saw in there was in the high 11k. Thanks for the help.. I'll let you know the results in 2 hours! :) 
October 17, 2014 11:58:41 AM

MasterDell said:
Firestrike is on a hdd right now. The sad I put in my rig list will be here in 3 days. Highest score with my gpu and the 4790k was getting like 11.5k OCed /: go to FS and look at results and type in my CPU and my GPU. Hugest score I see is a windforce at 12053


I have a 4790K with an MSI 970 and it scores in the upper 11K at stock and I can get it to around 13.3K or so when overclocked.

You may want to try a different benchmark. Heaven or Valley should help you to compare results.
October 17, 2014 10:25:55 AM

Firestrike is on a hdd right now. The sad I put in my rig list will be here in 3 days. Highest score with my gpu and the 4790k was getting like 11.5k OCed /: go to FS and look at results and type in my CPU and my GPU. Hugest score I see is a windforce at 12053
October 17, 2014 9:58:41 AM

MasterDell said:
Hi guys I iust built my new rig and usually I am the one helping people but I want to know what you think. My rig: http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/6XjhYJ

Problem is that when I updated the drivers and everything I got a Fs score of 9600. I rebooted and got about 10050. I then OCed the GPU to the max it could go on the boost clock in gpu tweak. I am steady at about 1273 for base clock. Then I ran FS again and got 10549. Others were getting about 800 score higher with the same clock speed ish and same stats. This includes same GPu. Why is this? Yes I have all updated drivers.


Normal Firestrike for the 970 is around ~11K at stock and about ~13K when overclocked, so something isn't right here.

Do you have 3DMark on your SSD or HDD? Also, have you tried re-installing it?

See all answers