Makes me think maybe when I (some day) build a LGA-775 SLI system, I might pay more and go up for the EVGA 790i motherboard that uses entirely polymer caps on the entire board for this reason. That and getting DDR3 would be nice, maybe. I don't know if the extra ram bandwidth would benefit those CPU's any.

For comparison for you, this is my "Best ever to date" 3dmark 2003 score: 133k using my big x58 i7 system with quad core cpu @ 4.4 ghz and pair of jacked up gtx 470's: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm03/6519023

Not too far above yours, and the 580's are supposed to be slightly faster than my jacked up 470's point for point, so a pair of em should be running faster than what I've come up with in 2003. So I think you're hitting the cpu bottleneck there, most likely. I think you already know that though.

Also I picked up a 1KW Silverstone power supply today for $27 and was able to squeeze a few more MHZ out of my amd 939 system. Apparently even though the 750 watt one was only showing 300-400 watts draw @ outlet with a kill-a-watt, it was holding back my 939 system. Or it's just inferior in general. Switching over to this 80+ silverstone 1KW let me push the chip a little further, and I do believe this is the fastest I'm ever going to get out of this K8 system, at least until I can maybe get a 2MB dual core into it some day.

Running a pair of GTX 260's in Asus A8n32-SLI-Deluxe.

2001se:

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Boom, baby!

Much faster than the X2-3800 a few posts above. Yeah, this box has a 720MHz clock advantage, but still... 😲

Edit: And by that I meant my stock-clocked X2-3800 on the previous page, not kithylin's oc'ed 3800 above. 😀

We're all trying to one-up each other 😁 I'm just trying to get the best I can out of this little 939 platform. I'm still a little undecided if I'm keeping it SLI or not.

I swear I didn't even see your post before I hit the submit button. 😊

Standard Def Steve wrote:

I swear I didn't even see your post before I hit the submit button. 😊

And I had my URL's wrong and had the wrong screenshot in there.. refresh if you didn't already. Feh. Typo on the file names.

kithylin wrote:

Standard Def Steve wrote:

I swear I didn't even see your post before I hit the submit button. 😊

And I had my URL's wrong and had the wrong screenshot in there.. refresh if you didn't already. Feh. Typo on the file names.

That's more like it. 30K seemed a little too low for 2.6GHz.

Curious how this program runs faster with SLI disabled, and running with a single overclocked card instead of two stock speeded ones. But it does.

Larger: http://www.outfoxed.net/amd-939/3dmark-2001se … gle-gtx-260.jpg

EDIT: Finally posted correctly. I must be really tired, failing a simple URL formation like 5 times. Feh.

Intel HD 4600 on Core i5 4460

Here are some Kentsfield scores with a Geforce 8800 GTX 😀
This setup feels like a nice overkill Windows XP system.

The QX6850@4000 Mhz is pretty fast, at least for a 65 nm CPU 😀. No serious CPU bottleneck in 3dmark 2001.

The 3dmark 03 score is also decent.

The 3dmark 06 score is rather good for a single Geforce 8800 GTX 😀

Core 2 quad Q6600 stock speed(2.4ghz), 2 gig ram, Geforce GTX260 SP216, Win 7 64bit. 32476 3D marks.

3DMark '03 on my current machine:

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm03/6522297

Pentium III 1.4S (Tualatin), i815, 512MB RAM, Geforce4 Ti-4600, WinXP SP3, DirectX 9.0c

EDIT: On a fresh reboot (newer than picture) I was able to eek out 8112.

I decided to join the 771-in-775 party with my Gigabyte system, with a *little* twist.. 😉 *waves at skyscraper*

nVidia SLI with two GTX 260's.... running on a P45, AMD CrossFireX Chipset motherboard.

I have a feeling these cards paired with this chip could do a lot better if it was in a "Full Speed" motherboard.
But.. this is all I have at the moment, this P45 board that runs both cards at 8x-8x and splits it between em.
I had an x48 board in the closet, but it's died on it's self while it's been sitting unpowered in storage.
But whatever that's a long story and off topic.

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A few more 2.72GHz Pentium M and GTX 560 benchmarks.

3DMark01 under Win7. (the WinXP result is a few posts above)

3DMark03 - XP

3DMark05 - XP. Pretty sure the CPU score was higher with a GTX 260.

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I decided to join the 771-in-775 party with my Gigabyte system, with a *little* twist.. 😉 *waves at skyscraper*

nVidia SLI with two GTX 260's.... running on a P45, AMD CrossFireX Chipset motherboard.

I have a feeling these cards paired with this chip could do a lot better if it was in a "Full Speed" motherboard.
But.. this is all I have at the moment, this P45 board that runs both cards at 8x-8x and splits it between em.
I had an x48 board in the closet, but it's died on it's self while it's been sitting unpowered in storage.
But whatever that's a long story and off topic.

Nice 😀

With Windows XP you would get between 65000 and 70000 points I think.

I managed to push my Geforce 8800 GTX over 70000 points with the Asus Commando P965 system. I had to borrow a Q9650 from a Dell tower dumpster find as I havent modded the Commandos socket for a socket 771 Xeon yet.

Q9650 @ 4.2, Geforce 8800 GTX.

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Nice 😀

With Windows XP you would get between 65000 and 70000 points I think.

I managed to push my Geforce 8800 GTX over 70000 points with the Asus Commando P965 system. I had to borrow a Q9650 from a Dell tower dumpster find as I havent modded the Commandos socket for a socket 771 Xeon yet.

Q9650 @ 4.2, Geforce 8800 GTX.
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I don't think the SLI hack software supports WindowsXP, so I'd just be running one card, I might try it sometime though. I'll need to be in a different OS on a different drive when I clone the win7 install over to the ssd anyway, maybe I'll use XP just so I can run a test on it.

These Core2 chips seem to be an aweful lot faster at 3dmark 2001se, faster than my 4.4 ghz i7 chip even. I've tried that system in XP before and couldn't get more than 50k - 55k with 2001se with a massively overclocked gtx 470 pair. Dunno what it is with core2.

Also is XP-32 or XP-64 faster at 3dmark 2001se?

kithylin wrote:

I don't think the SLI hack software supports WindowsXP, so I'd just be running one card, I might try it sometime though. I'll need to be in a different OS on a different drive when I clone the win7 install over to the ssd anyway, maybe I'll use XP just so I can run a test on it.

These Core2 chips seem to be an aweful lot faster at 3dmark 2001se, faster than my 4.4 ghz i7 chip even. I've tried that system in XP before and couldn't get more than 50k - 55k with 2001se with a massively overclocked gtx 470 pair. Dunno what it is with core2.

Also is XP-32 or XP-64 faster at 3dmark 2001se?

I think a single GTX 260 would be fast enough to get 65000 - 70000 points with a 12MB cache socket 771/775 Quad @3750. The CPU and memory are still the primary bottlenecks. One of my other socket 775 systems runs a Q6600 @ 3.6 with a Geforce 8800 GTX. That system gets 60 - 65K, your system should be a little bit faster.

I do not think the C2D is faster than the I7 in 3dmark 2001, I will look in to that when I finally build my Sandy Bridge system.

Back when I had an LGA 1366 system kicking around I did a bit of benchmarking with Nehalem @ 3.6GHz. Nehalem is faster than Core 2 at many things, but 3DMark01 is not one of them. Clock for clock, 45nm Core 2 and Nehalem are roughly the same (both score around 48K in Win7 @ 3.6GHz with a GTX 260 SP216). Sandy Bridge easily smokes both of them (66K @ 3.4GHz, Win7, GTX 680). Ivy Bridge is faster yet (82.5K @ 4.3GHz, Win7, GTX 970--keep in mind this is an Ivy-E LGA2011 system; a standard Ivy Bridge might be a little slower clock for clock).

Alright, beat this bottleneck if you can:

Celeron 800 Mhz socket 370 with a ATI HD 3850 512MB AGP

or

Pentium III 800Mhz socket 370 with a ATI HD 3850 512MB AGP

I dare you 😀

Yet another socket 775 system, this time with DDR3!

Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R, E8400@4500, Geforce 8800 GTX. Close to 75K with a 8800 GTX 😀

Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R, E8400@4500, Geforce GTX 285. A better score clock for clock than with my Nforce 780i SLI board.

Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R, E8400@4500, Geforce GTX 285. The 3dmark 2003 is about the same as with the Nforce 780i system.

Gigabyte EP35C-DS3R, E8400@4500, Geforce GTX 285. In 3dmark 2006 I think a quad core CPU would do better.