Serious 3DMark Question

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zipspyder

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First, please only reply if you have something usefull to say other than "3DMark suxor try playing a real game" crap as I don't want to hear it, plus it's thread crapping. It's very good at judging my system performance compared to someone elses with the same specs.

A little background: I consider myself very good at maxing out my rig for gaming performance as I play almost strictly first person shooters. My current system is an NF4 mobo with AMD 64 3500+ @ 2.60hgz (11x236) with 2gb of OCZ PC3200 memory @ 2.5-3-3-6 1T timings running at 236FSB using a 7600GT @ 596mhz core and 1580mhz memory.

My 3DMark scores are 2001SE - 26,015 and 2006 - 3,340. I thought those were pretty respectable until I checked the ORB. Now I know the top scores use water cooling, volt mods, etc. but come on 40,000+ on a video card with 128 bit memory or 7,500 points in 06? I don't think so. My question is are these scores using SLI and if so why can't 3Dmark sepertate those with SLI and without. I can't find anywhere to filter those results? I'm not saying SLI is cheating, I just want to be able to filter those out so I get a fair comparision to a single GPU. I wonder if Futuremark ever took SLI into condsideration for at least the 2006 benchmark?

Anybody else have any thoughts on this?
 
what video card are you using?

wtf is orb?

Use the 3DMark threads in this forum to compare.

lol, n00b. "3DMark suxor try playing a real game"

J/K lol
 
Theres no toggle to filter out sli/xfire, but you can just look at the display thingy for "cooperative adapters". That tells you if theres more than one GPU.
 
Thanks eno-on, i'll give that a try......can't believe I forgot to add my video card... :p

edited and added in first post!
 
I was worried when i did my 3d mark 06 with my new card and the marks i was trying to compare with had used a dual core and i was really worried cos i got 2500 points less because of a single core.

I wrote to PC custom and they told me as long as it plays everything to the max dont worry about the marks, they more for tests for new products that come out and they can compare against each other.

Also i doubt that SLi is cheating you , one thing i have learnt is that there are a lot of calculations on new games and we are going through change where dual core is normal and the average persons card should be able to game at least at 1200 by 1024.

I went through three cards to realise sli only gives 150 to 170 % and you pay double but that said the new 7950 is the best sli set up to date.

Very little is waisted. Also it prooves to be more efficient unlike the old SLI setup.
 
One X1900XT gave me 5893 in 3DM06
Two X1900XTs gave me 9188

Same CPU, RAM and GPU/VRAM clocks for both runs for a fair comparison, which gave a 56% boost in score.
 
JD adams , what your spec?

I have a 7950 XXX and i get 6250 but i need a dual core because its bottlenecking my card so i have been told. what is your CPU?
 
CPU was a dual core Opteron 170 running at 2.6Ghz for those tests. It's now at 2.7Ghz, giving a slightly higher score, but I don't have a single X1900XT run for comparison. RAM is 2 gig Corsair PC3500LL running at DDR450 (225 Mhz) on an Asus A8R32-MVP.
 
Guy's i don't think SLI is cheating I just wish 3Dmark for the future would find a better way of distinguishing SLI vs single GPU scores so I can get a fair comparison....that's all.
 
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