Xeon E3-1271 v3 HT off + GTX 960

OM606 wrote on 2025-10-03, 10:46:

Xeon E3-1271 v3 HT off + GTX 960

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Haswell is still a beast.

I gained roughly 5000 points by "upgrading" to Windows 10 IoT LTSC. I love it, finally feels like it should.

I bet I can gain more by disabling Hyperthreading.

I thought it might be fun to post a couple of scores from my latest overkill Windows XP retro rocket.

Specs:
Windows XP SP3 (updated ACPI driver for modern platforms)
Gigabyte Z370 HD3P
i7-9700k (4.6 GHz all-core)
EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC

3DMark01 Score: 118,015

For a bit more fun, I turned off a couple of cores and increased the core frequency to 5.0GHz for a few more points in Windows XP.

i7-9700k (4 cores enabled, 5.0 GHz all-core), 3DMark01 Score: 135,721

This must be the fastest stock FX5200. It has 3,6ns BGA DDR RAM clocked at 276Mhz (552 DDR) with 128Bit Memory Bus witdh. It uses the same PCB as the Palit FX5200Ultra.

it's definitely rare to find them with good memory speed like that! and there is probably some OC potential in it still, very nice,
I call it a win when I find any 5200 with 128bit memory these days, even the more common 5ns memory ones,

Wow that is good! I recently benchmarked an FX 5600 and it only got 8923 Points! Video below if interested

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKuDccIW66A

Really nice Video! Keep Up the good Work. It is Strange that your FX5600 is slower even with all of your clockspeeds are Higher than mine. Maybe my FX5200 has extreme tight memory Timings. On the RAM module itself it says "DDR SGRAM". Now i know that SGRAM is a bit faster than SDRAM. I used Nvidia 44.03 Driver. (And i think i Set Driver settings to Maximum Performance)

Edit: i Benched it again with a slightly better system (Motherboard chipset and system RAM memory Timings) and I get even more 3dmarks. So the Card was still bottlenecked by my old System. I also did an overclocked Test:

8600 GT GDDR2 (aXiss Hwbot)

9500 GT GDDR2 😁

was bored and decided to run 3dm01 on both gpus on my pc,
not very optimized but shouldn't be terrible

hd630 with ddr3 memory

and rtx 3050 with some undervolt + memory OC (it boosts a little lower than at stock for the core, i do it for the temperature)

Just ran 3dm01 again but this time i've got a score of 100949 instead of 102243. Hyperthreading on this time. Am i the only one noticing a better score with HT off? Also, i have a few "?" in my device manager this time because i didn't install .inf files with Snappy Driver but i am pretty sure it has nothing to do with it.

OM606 wrote on 2025-11-18, 09:14:

Just ran 3dm01 again but this time i've got a score of 100949 instead of 102243. Hyperthreading on this time. Am i the only one noticing a better score with HT off? Also, i have a few "?" in my device manager this time because i didn't install .inf files with Snappy Driver but i am pretty sure it has nothing to do with it.

That's normal especially with intel, probably why they got rid of it.

XP vs 11 on an abandoned Pentium D!
The previous owner of this machine must've had some sick sense of humour, as it booted into a clean new installation of Windows 11 (specifically 23H2, the last version of Windows that an old D will insert itself into). I of course added an XP partition to see how the mildly interesting combination of PD-945 and GTX-745 would perform under more ideal operating conditions.

See, the old (Pentium) D thought it wanted a newer, hotter version of Windows...

...only to realize--after running out of steam embarrassingly quickly--that it much preferred to let the bits flow with an OS closer to its own age.

I believe some of the pre-D3D9 pipeline is partially handled in software and/or translated to DX12 in newer versions of Windows and their driver models. That would at least explain the massive performance discrepancy between the two. However, when ancient API calls aren't at play, Win11 at its core doesn't actually seem to be much slower than XP. The SuperPi and 7-Zip scores, for example, are nearly identical--even with a mere 2GB of RAM!

Talking of which, I was surprised to find that the Maxwell(!) based GTX 745 has twice as much memory as the rest of the system! I may pull this video card before I take the machine to the thrift store. I already own Boardwalk, why not claim Mediterranean Ave as well?