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I have 2 bfg 7800gts in sli, sli is enabled, and I am only getting a 3300 score. Am I doing something wrong? Shouldn't I be getting a much higher score?
 
precator said:
I have 2 bfg 7800gts in sli, sli is enabled, and I am only getting a 3300 score. Am I doing something wrong? Shouldn't I be getting a much higher score?
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what settings are you running the benchmark at?
 
sounds like the low score of only 1 7800GT
perhaps there's a hardware conflict? or the rest of your system is poop :(
 
amd 3500
asus 8n-sli deluxe
1 gig of ram

Sli is enabled in nvidia control panel, I see that is sees both video cards, but in the details tab of 3dmark06 is says gpu 1 out of 1 but i know i have 2.
 
on the performance and quality page of your drivers, make sure that anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is set on "application controlled" if these are turned off, it will kill your score. did you do a clean install of xp after you installed the cards? i got arpund 7500 with 2 7800gt sli. my score was less than half that with aa and aniso off.
 
I am still getting horrible scores.. other than the benchmarks.. How do i know if my SLI is working? It gave me the popup that SLI is enabled. Basically what I am saying is, i dont care if benchmarks are crappy, i just want to know if both my cards are working in SLI..
 
precator said:
I am still getting horrible scores.. other than the benchmarks.. How do i know if my SLI is working? It gave me the popup that SLI is enabled. Basically what I am saying is, i dont care if benchmarks are crappy, i just want to know if both my cards are working in SLI..
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How does it perform in actual games?
 
Under advanced properties on your Nvidia control panel, at the very bottom, make sure that SLI mode is showing as "Auto-select" and not Single GPU mode. Just because you have "enabled" SLI doesn't mean you're actually running it in Dual GPU mode.
 
noobtech said:
Thats normal for 3dMark06... What is it in 05?
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I dont think thats a normal score for a SLI 7800GT system. You seem to have a SLI setup with an opteron... is that your score?
 
inotocracy said:
I dont think thats a normal score for a SLI 7800GT system. You seem to have a SLI setup with an opteron... is that your score?
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I scored 12K in 05... I forgot what I did in 06.. I thought it was about 3K... but I could be off by a few K. *shrug*
 
I had a bad score in 06 too, along with very many other A8N32 SLI Deluxe users. I personally think Futuremark mucked up with their compatibility on the 32, because this problem is so widespread.
 
cyks said:
I had a bad score in 06 too, along with very many other A8N32 SLI Deluxe users. I personally think Futuremark mucked up with their compatibility on the 32, because this problem is so widespread.
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Yeah, I am sure they will release an updated 06... besides, 06 is almost like 05.
 
With my old 7800GT's in SLi I scored a 7,165 in 3DMark06.

Now with my 7900GTX's in SLi I scored a 9,016. :D


It could be your CPU score pulling you down.
 
AppaYipYip said:
With my old 7800GT's in SLi I scored a 7,165 in 3DMark06.

Now with my 7900GTX's in SLi I scored a 9,016. :D


It could be your CPU score pulling you down.
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With the clock speeds and ram size differences... I am surprised you're not getting that much higher with the 7900 GTX.
 
noobtech said:
With the clock speeds and ram size differences... I am surprised you're not getting that much higher with the 7900 GTX.
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A 1,851 point jump is pretty friggen nice if you ask me. :confused:

At this point, the 7900GTX's are so powerful that I basically reach the upper limit. 3DMark06 is not GPU limited at this point. I can drastically increase my score by getting my CPU clock higher. When I get my system on water I'll be able to run it at 2.8 or so, which will further increase the score.
 
AppaYipYip said:
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A 1,851 point jump is pretty friggen nice if you ask me. :confused:

At this point, the 7900GTX's are so powerful that I basically reach the upper limit. 3DMark06 is not GPU limited at this point. I can drastically increase my score by getting my CPU clock higher. When I get my system on water I'll be able to run it at 2.8 or so, which will further increase the score.
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You're right... I am just thinking of how big the scores were for me from a TI 4600 to a 6800 Ultra... but those are generations apart. Seeing how you are still using Generation 7 cards... that is a great increase.
 
My scores in 06 went down after adding a second 7800gtx (auto-select, AFR, SFR) on my A8N32-SLI, but everything else is much better.
 
With high quality enabled and 8xAF I get ~7900 in 3DMark06 with my 7900GTXs (675) in SLI. Running an athlon FX57@2.9
 
Weazmeister said:
With high quality enabled and 8xAF I get ~7900 in 3DMark06 with my 7900GTXs (675) in SLI. Running an athlon FX57@2.9
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Is that the x16 chipset?
 
This is what I get on my XPS 600, no overclocking on cards. Not sure how good this is though...

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i used to get around 7200 in 3d06 and iirc that was around average for 7800 gt sli. now i get over 9k with 7900gt sli. i am not using the asus board tho. but i am only getting around 33k in 3d01, which is a lower score than i used to get with a 850xt and a 3500 winny a year or 2 ago. dont put too much stock in it. its only 3dmark.


http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=187749
 
i was getting horrible scores also, my problem was that my cpu was overheating, cpu slows itself down when it gets too hot, the solution was i bought a better fan/heatsink (also make sure fan/heatsink sits tight).
 
I went from ~4500 to 7487 after reinstalling Windows:

7487 3DMarks
SM2.0 3409
SM3.0 3297
CPU 1866

SLI-Auto Select
All else default
1280x1024

I was beginning to think there was an A8N32-SLI/3DMark06 curse, but it was only because I installed the cards at different times on an existing setup (x64). (C&Q is off, no processor driver)
 
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