Thread: New 8800GT, first time ever running 3DMark... reasonable results?

Originally Posted by sfg-Groove

Sure it put SOME stress on it .. but like i said if you take the right precautions your fine..
When you put your cooler on how much paste did you apply? I used a grain of rice sized amount.. And I am using a scythe inifinity with 2 120mm panaflows in a push pull setup. I also have very good case ventilation.
And i lapped the surface of the cpu and the heat sink to make sure they are 100% flat.

Yeh, I used the right amount of paste. But I did not lap the mating surfaces. Nor is my case ventilation probably the best. Maybe on my next build if I get a new case I'll plan out the ventilation better from the beginning. For now on this build it'd be too much effort to do that. It would be cheaper for me to buy a Q6600 stock and sell me E6400 used on eBay... I can do that for about $100 out of pocket and that'd be a pretty good upgrade. But again, I don't think I need it now, my system does everything I want it to.

Originally Posted by PASHA

I will run 3DMark today and let u know. 3dmark06?

Yup.

Originally Posted by Veovis

I've never run 3DMark in my life, believe it or not.

I just upgraded to an 8800GT. Other info is e6400, ASUS P5W DH mobo, and 4GB RAM, Windows XP 32-bit.

I downloaded 3DMark06 and ran it and got 9362. I'm in the 75th percentile, apparently. I'd think I would be a little bit higher.

HERE are my results, not sure if that link will be good for public viewing but it's worth a try.

Any comments? One thing I did notice was that the "CPU" tests ran VERY slowly, between 0-1 FPS. Is this normal? The graphics tests all looked great.

your forum profile 3dmark link is a submission link. not your dynamic compare link. please fix it. anyone that hits yoru link "submits" your project as one of their own, fucking up their own profiles.

thanks....and it's a good score.

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

your forum profile 3dmark link is a submission link. not your dynamic compare link. please fix it. anyone that hits yoru link "submits" your project as one of their own, fucking up their own profiles.

thanks....and it's a good score.

Sorry, unfamiliar with that website's setup. I removed the link from my profile and original post, but at any rate it doesn't seem to work anymore either... I tried to submit it for publishing and it's broken now. I'll run the test again later and publish it properly and update my profile. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Veovis

Originally Posted by sfg-Groove

Now im hitting 13k with an e4300 at 3.2 ghz ... hits 45 to 46c under load running stanford folding at home

My e6400, NOT O/C'ed, with a pretty good Zalman HSF, idles in the low 40's. It loads in the high 50's. I don't know what I'm doing wrong that everybody else seems to runs so much cooler.

But again, if I can run every game I play maxed out, why do I need to OC? I'm sure it's possible to do with minimal stress, but I have a hard time believing that OC "doesn't stress anything at all."

I just realized something... the CPU temps I'm referring to are CORE temps. Are yours core temps or CPU temps? Because my CPU idles between 25-30. It's my cores that idle between 40-45.

Yes this is a thread about reading; you know, the things we do if our TVs and computers aren't working. Anyways, What are some of your favorite/best books you've read either recently or way back when?

As for me; My favorites include All Quiet on the Western Front, to Kill a Mockingbird, The Odyssey, Beowulf, Grendel, Peter and the Starcatchers, and The Body.

What are yours? Hopefully I can find something else to read soon enough.