Optimizng 3DMark06 scores

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The demo does not let me change settings. Do people using the pro version get better scores because they can lower settings like resolution etc...? Can I achieve the same effect by dropping my default and desktop resolution or using my Catalyst Control Center to turn on or off settings?

How do I get my best score or a score I can compare to others with using only the demo?
 
How do I get my best score or a score I can compare to others with using only the demo?
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Generally speaking, most people just use the 'demo' so all the scores should be the same. That's why, if you check out the 3DMark scores thread, people with the same hardware generally post the same score.

Truthfully, it's worthless to try to improve a 3DMark score by lowering resolution, because, the numbers it gives are only general refrences of system performance in games. Just because you get 50 more points doesn't meant much of anything, other then you got 50 more points.

Long story short: don't worry about 3DMark scores.
 
I just wanted to make sure I am running the same settings as everyone else.

I am a noob with computers and just put together a new machine for the first time (used a shop to assemble) based on 3 weeks of research from scratch. I wanted to make sure it is working how it should is all.

I got 10,390 using default Demo settings.

I don't overclock anything (not even my GPUs) since I am, as I said, a computer noob :). I also have no extra fans or thermal gluey stuff or whatever - just au' naturel. But so far so good - I want my machine to last and don't care about the extra bits of performance I could get OCing.

But I am having driver issues - the only catalyst I can get to work my 1950s in crossfire are the ones that came on CD in the box with my HIS GPU cards (I imagine HIS hacked 6.8s or 6.9s to add 1950XTX semi-support).

Even the 6.10 beta is buggy for me in terms of recognizing my 1950s AND recognizing that they are in crossfire. The HIS ones will have to do until 6.10 is officially released

btw how can I find out which catalyst edition HIS used?

Specs:

-E6700
-P5W DH Deluxe
-2 x HIS ATI x1950XTX Crossfire GPU
-Creative X-Fi
-2GB Hynix DDR2-800 Ram
-150 GB W/D S-ATA HDD "Raptor"
-2005 manu. HP-P1230 22" Diamontron CRT
-Logitech G5 Mouse
-Logitch G15 Keyboard
-Enermax 620 Watt "Liberty" PSU
-Antec P-180 Case
-Creative Inspire 5.1 Channel Speakers

Is that an okay score seeing as I am not overclocking anything at all? Everything seems to be running so I hope my new system is healthy.
 
I wonder why people would be scoring more than me with the same CPU, mobo, and using 1900XTX Corssofire when I have 1950XTX?

Could it be because there is better driver support for 1900s right now?

or

They are overclocking CPU

or

They are Overclocking GPUs

or

A lot of GPUs are SHIPPED with varying degrees of overclocking and maybe my HIS 1950XTXs are among the slower clock speed models (which has advanatages and disadvantages - but will hurt my 3DMark score)?

Again I am pretty new at this. Does any of this speculation seem reasonable? Does the Orb section tell me what the clock speed is on their CPUs and GPUs?
 
1950 uses GDDR4 memory, 1900 uses GDDR3 memory, GDDR4 memory has higher )read slower) latencies, which *could* account for some difference

however there are far far too many differences possible to say for sure, all the way down to the motherboard chipset used, HDD interface, HDD specs, memory, overclocking, etc....etc.....with the biggest factors being chipset, cpu, memory, and video card specs

and ORB is not very reliable when it comes to reporting all variables accurately, so take it all with a grain of salt, if you are happy with your performance, dont worry about it, you'll drive yourself crazy trying to get 100 more points to get a higher rank, just to have the G80/R600 come out and make everything else look slow
 
I just wanted to make sure my performance is what it should be.

However I can see now that they list the clock speed for at least the CPUs and that the guys with similar parts to mine but beating my 1950s with 1900s all are OCing the living snot out of their CPUs.

So no problems - does anyone run their E6700s at the basic 2.66 GHZ speed lol? BTW do people OC GPUs much?
 
So no problems - does anyone run their E6700s at the basic 2.66 GHZ speed lol? BTW do people OC GPUs much?
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The majority of people do, and will, just not many people in the enthusist community.

People OC GPU's just as much as CPU's some Voltmod their GPU's to get the most speed possible, some have even rigged phase change systems to them. So, generally speaking, anything that can be OC'ed has been OC'ed and the easy things to OC (GPU/CPU) are regularly OC'ed but a good portion of hardware enthusiast. My spelling is bad, so forgive me.

You can see differences in 3DMark by the BIOS being used in the same motherboard, to different mother boards, to drivers used, backround programs running, there's probably 20 things I could list that will effect your 3DMark score.

Just to let you know, the majority of people in the community regard 3DMark mostly as a joke, that's why we're telling you to just not worry about it. There's countless threads about the validity of 3DMark scores, or the lack there of. If you wanna get into the community, I'd suggest taking some time and just reading some of the threads as they make some intresting points, and you should probably know about so you don't go up to someone saying 'My sister gets 30 more points then yours, I rock'. Lol...
 
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The majority of people do, and will, just not many people in the enthusist community.

People OC GPU's just as much as CPU's some Voltmod their GPU's to get the most speed possible, some have even rigged phase change systems to them. So, generally speaking, anything that can be OC'ed has been OC'ed and the easy things to OC (GPU/CPU) are regularly OC'ed but a good portion of hardware enthusiast. My spelling is bad, so forgive me.

You can see differences in 3DMark by the BIOS being used in the same motherboard, to different mother boards, to drivers used, backround programs running, there's probably 20 things I could list that will effect your 3DMark score.

Just to let you know, the majority of people in the community regard 3DMark mostly as a joke, that's why we're telling you to just not worry about it. There's countless threads about the validity of 3DMark scores, or the lack there of. If you wanna get into the community, I'd suggest taking some time and just reading some of the threads as they make some intresting points, and you should probably know about so you don't go up to someone saying 'My sister gets 30 more points then yours, I rock'. Lol...
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Let's provide an example. The X1600XTs are known to score high scores, in fact, even higher than the 7600GT and 6800GS's in some places, on 3dmark 05. But you keep scrolling down the review, you'll find that the X1600Xt receives less frames than both the 6800GS and the 7600GT by a good amount (atleast 5-10 frames). 3dmark is good for a general evaluation of a graphic card's performance, but don't take it too literally.
 
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