havli wrote:

3DMark 2001 loves huge and fast L2/L3 cache. Core2-based Pentium isn't a very good CPU for breaking 3DMark records. :) R9800 Pro […]
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3DMark 2001 loves huge and fast L2/L3 cache. Core2-based Pentium isn't a very good CPU for breaking 3DMark records. 😀
R9800 Pro can do 30k+ and 6800 Ultra PCI-E is able to hit 60k easily... of course with very fast CPU and some LOD tweaks as well.
http://hwbot.org/submission/2456100_havli_3dm … xxl_30620_marks
http://hwbot.org/submission/2296093_havli_3dm … _mb_58409_marks

Anyway - here is a score of my lastest build:

Core2 Duo E6400 @ 2,25 GHz
Radeon 8500
1GB DDR 373 MHz
ASRock 775i65G R3.0 (i865G)

11428 points (no tweaks)

I'm not looking for just "stupid high 3dmark scores" but high scores on something that's compatible with older games to actually use the power it produces. So.. scoring high just to score high is not really of interest to me. Usable systems that I can do something with that score high on the other hand, that I'm in to.

Like sandy bridge with that pci-e card can't run win98 and my older games I like to play sometimes that don't like win XP much.

MSI 915GM speedster-FA4 desktop pentium M board, 1Gb DDR 400mhz, Pentium M 740(1.73ghz, 2 meg cache, 533FSB), using the onboard intel IGP. It has a pci-e slot so will give it a whirl with a proper graphics card when i have time.

kithylin wrote:

I'm not looking for just "stupid high 3dmark scores" but high scores on something that's compatible with older games to actually use the power it produces. So.. scoring high just to score high is not really of interest to me. Usable systems that I can do something with that score high on the other hand, that I'm in to.

Like sandy bridge with that pci-e card can't run win98 and my older games I like to play sometimes that don't like win XP much.

Benchmarking and playing games are two different things. To get a competitive score in 3DMark, the fastest CPU is a must-have.
For gaming it depends on the game - for example Mafia: The city of Lost Heaven with unlimited visibility mod doesn't run that good even with 5GHz i5, regardless of the videocard.
But I agree - most games don't need CPU overkill like this.

havli wrote:

For gaming it depends on the game - for example Mafia: The city of Lost Heaven with unlimited visibility mod doesn't run that good even with 5GHz i5, regardless of the videocard.
But I agree - most games don't need CPU overkill like this.

Oh my god!
I have tried it!
I remember that with unlimited visibility mod is better to use nvidia card 😉

S939 Athlon X2 3800+ and a GeForce GTX 560.

I'm impressed with NVIDIA's drivers. Even the newer ones (like 331.65, which I used here) seem to be quite efficient and have low CPU overhead.

Now you're going to make me go benchmark my recently tuned 939 system tomorrow 😁 I was going to and post it anyway, but now I have a reason to I suppose, see how it compares to yours. 😀

Hello is one of my 3dmar tests

Toshiba Dynabook 1801 / P3 1000 + Trident Cyberblade XP Ai1 (shared memory)

3dmark 2001 SE / 800x600x32

Added a geforce 6800 to the above Pentium M system, quite the improvement!

Even better when I remember to turn off BOINC! 🤣

the Dual Tualatin board is up and running

Gigabyte GA-6VTXD (VIA Apollo 133T chipset)
2x Pentium III-S 1.4Ghz Tualatins (512k cache)
1GB SDRAM PC133
300GB Seagate Cheetah drive on an Adaptec 2100S card.
Voodoo 5500 AGP
Sound Blaster Audigy (in Win2k)
Aureal Vortex2 SQ2500 (in Win98SE)
Intel Pro 100/S
benchmark done in Windows 2000

compared to the Athlon 1400 ,this is a lower result (3DMark01 is not SMP enabled after all) , however in games Im generally seeing similar or minor improvements in the frame rate (Return to Castle Wolfenstein for instacne gains about 5 frames over the Athlon)il I imagine due to the OS offloading the background tasts to the 2nd CPU

Here are some scores with an overclocked quad core socket 771 Xeon X5460.
I think the scores are a bit low because of the not totally flawless chipset nForce 780i.

Geforce GTX 285, close to 80K

Geforce GTX 580, over 80k 😀

Geforce GTX 580 SLI, a few more points!

Skyscraper, could you please tell me the exact model # and if possible, revision # of the motherboard you used with that cpu? No one online seems to have much info on the nvidia 700 series of chipsets in conjunction with those 771 quads on the internet, and it's a project I was hoping to assemble myself some day in the future.

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Skyscraper, could you please tell me the exact model # and if possible, revision # of the motherboard you used with that cpu? No one online seems to have much info on the nvidia 700 series of chipsets in conjunction with those 771 quads on the internet, and it's a project I was hoping to assemble myself some day in the future.

XFX nForce 780i SLI
MB-N780-ISH9 V1.5 W07/08

I think this is the model number? MB-N780-ISH9
The revison is at least V1.5

I think the model is also called XFX nForce 780i Tri SLI FTW
Im sure there are more numbers but its hard to see with my pocket light 😁

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XFX nForce 780i SLI MB-N780-ISH9 V1.5 W07/08 […]
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XFX nForce 780i SLI
MB-N780-ISH9 V1.5 W07/08

I this is the model number? MB-N780-ISH9
The revison is at least V1.5

I thinks the model is also called XFX NForce 780i Tri SLI FTW
Im sure there are more numbers but its hard to see with my pocket light 😁

That's fine already and more than enough, thank you 😀

Today activity - P4 EE + Radeon 9700 = no love 😀

Is it titled "No Love" because your CPU is revision N0?

Skyscraper wrote:

Here are some scores with an overclocked quad core socket 771 Xeon X5460. I think the scores are a bit low because of the not to […]
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Here are some scores with an overclocked quad core socket 771 Xeon X5460.
I think the scores are a bit low because of the not totally flawless chipset nForce 780i.

Geforce GTX 285, close to 80K

Geforce GTX 580, over 80k 😀

Geforce GTX 580 SLI, a few more points!

Holy hell man! 😳
You outscored my 4.3GHz i7-4930k. It only gets 82500 with a GTX 970.
Now I want to install WinXP just to beat your score. You're lucky I'm a lazy bum. 🤣

edit: no WinXP drivers for the GTX 970. There goes that idea.

Standard Def Steve wrote:

Holy hell man! 8-O You outscored my 4.3GHz i7-4930k. It only gets 82500 with a GTX 970. Now I want to install WinXP just to b […]
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Holy hell man! 😳
You outscored my 4.3GHz i7-4930k. It only gets 82500 with a GTX 970.
Now I want to install WinXP just to beat your score. You're lucky I'm a lazy bum. 🤣

edit: no WinXP drivers for the GTX 970. There goes that idea.

Yep sadly nvidia has officially killed off WindowsXP support starting with the 900 series of cards. I looked in their drivers and saw that a few days ago. Sort of a milestone in nvidia history, I think.

Latest dumpster find:

An adorable USFF Optiplex 780 in perfect condition. It came with:
-Core 2 Duo E7500 (2.93GHz, 1066FSB, 3MB L3)
-4GB DDR3-1333, running at 1066MHz CL7
-320GB HDD
-Q45 chipset w/ GMA X4500HD IGP
-DisplayPort and eSATA

Unfortunately, there's no PCIe expansion so I can't really put the pedal to the metal, but it's a zippy little Internet machine and has no problem playing 60fps 1080p YouTube video. Completely silent, too. Here's the 3DMark01 score

Standard Def Steve wrote:

Holy hell man! 8-O You outscored my 4.3GHz i7-4930k. It only gets 82500 with a GTX 970. Now I want to install WinXP just to b […]
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Holy hell man! 😳
You outscored my 4.3GHz i7-4930k. It only gets 82500 with a GTX 970.
Now I want to install WinXP just to beat your score. You're lucky I'm a lazy bum. 🤣

edit: no WinXP drivers for the GTX 970. There goes that idea.

Well my Xeon Frankenstein system is totally bottlenecked by system memory bandwidth at this point so if you upgrade to a GTX 980 you will beat my score even when running Windows 8 🤣 .

3dmark 03 isnt as badly bottlenecked by CPU and memory speed as 3dmark 2001 so there we see better scaling.

The CPU scores are a bit strange so perhaps the CPU was throttling from heat. I diddnt really check the temps (Zalman air cooling) as it was a quick and dirty OC before I settled for a nice and cool 4037 MHz at default voltage and installed Windows 7.

3dmark 03. Xeon X5460@4400 with GTX 285.

3dmark 03. Xeon X5460@4400 with GTX 580. Not bottlenecked very much.

3dmark 03. Xeon X5460@4400 with GTX 580 SLI. Bottlenecked.

The reason I want this system to run cool is that the board has some bad caps right by the very hot running northbridge. They were bad when I got the board and have not gotten worse so I have ignored them so far but I am not overvolting the northbridge other than for short benchmark sessions.