Benchmarks / Overclocking / E-peen!

**sfg-Groove** · 02-14-08, 07:25 AM

Originally Posted by ...bigdog...

if my computer was meant to decompress mpegs and divx's, or search for prime numbers, the rest of those scores would be relevant.

my computer is not meant for those things.

My computer is meant to game... Hence the 13k 3d06 score and 456 lightsmark score.. which btw was higher than blue thunders score with him using 2x 8800GT'S.... But now back to the FUR bench... syrringe scored higher than me on that one, why? he has a better video card... Not because his amd cpu is more powerfull.. because I have higher scores than him in everything else... So that would mean that the FUR test is more of a GPU test than anything else. :6

**sfg-Groove** · 02-14-08, 07:28 AM

Originally Posted by RhysJD3

Originally Posted by MaKe_OuT_33

Originally Posted by rock_lobster

Just out of curiosity.....I scored an 8500 on 3dmark06..ran it a few days ago.

I have:
EVGA 8800 GTS w/640 mb ram
2 gigs of ballistix DDR2 800 PC2 6400 Ram
E6600 intel processor

Nothing is overclocked. If I were to overclock these things, how much of a difference would it make in terms of 3dmark06 score?

you should be able to get to 10K+

That's a pretty big jump. You'd have to substantially overclock the processor and video card to crank out a 15% difference.

A 15% overclock on that cpu would be really easy and would probably be reached on the stock voltage and heatsink without running into to heat problems.

I have my E4300 oc'd 67% with just a bump on the volts .. stock is 1.325 and mine needs 1.375 to be stable at 3.2ghz .

I hit 10k with my 8800GT and AMD X2 3800 .. so you hitting 10k with a core 2 duo is not impossible

**Mcstrange** · 02-14-08, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by rock_lobster

Just out of curiosity.....I scored an 8500 on 3dmark06..ran it a few days ago.

I have:
EVGA 8800 GTS w/640 mb ram
2 gigs of ballistix DDR2 800 PC2 6400 Ram
E6600 intel processor

Nothing is overclocked. If I were to overclock these things, how much of a difference would it make in terms of 3dmark06 score?

I have a GTS and an AMD 5600, running with a 5 or 8% system auto-overclock through the Asus bios option. I dont remember which, but I went from a 8600 or so to a 9300 or whatever I have simply by doing that.
If I cared and wanted to tweak it further and also overclock my GPU (Which is simple given the nvidia software OC options) I expect I could hit close to 10000 without much trouble.

The question is, why? Can you play your games at the resolution and quality settings you want? I dont care to over stress my bits unnecessarily just to have a bigger benchmark score...

**Mcstrange** · 02-14-08, 07:53 AM

I have done plenty of Overclocking in the past, When I was poor and whatnot, and am not afraid to do it again.

Thankfully I can afford to actually buy the equipment to power my addictions without havng to overclock things like crazy mad.

**Mcstrange** · 02-14-08, 08:44 AM

I would start with the nvidia overclocking tool, its simple to use and bumping your graphics card up will net you the most fps bangs for your buck.

Youll still have things slow down at the worst possible time though. Thats just murphy and you cant do much about him

**Mcstrange** · 02-14-08, 02:00 PM

80c isnt unusual, the top end cards do run pretty hot. You can probably bring it down a good bit with an aftermarket cooler,
Hell ive read reports just taking the stock cooler off it lowers the temps... (i do not endorse trying this, nor will I pay for your burn up card if you do) I just recall someone posting they dropped their temps just by removing it, which I thought was crazy BS...

**sfg-Groove** · 02-15-08, 12:50 PM

overclocking 101 http://www.blazingpc.com/forum/showt...985/index.html
read over that then sign up for one of the best hardware/overclocking forums on the net.

**HeavyG** · 02-17-08, 03:25 PM

Overclock:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.0GHz - Overclocked at 3.8GHz - 27% Overclock
Memory: OCZ Reaper DDR2 800MHz - Overclocked at 1012MHz (clocks 5-5-5-15) - 26.5% Overclock
GPU Core: ATI HD2900XT 743MHz - Overclocked at 820MHz - 10% Overclock
GPU Memory: 828MHz - Overclocked at 900MHz - 9% Overclock

Benchmarks:

[img width=403 height=525]http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e56/GNovak83/New%20PC%20Pics/FurScore.jpg[/img]

Let's try to keep this topic on target. If we start to stray, the mods will begin removing posts.

**Blue_Thunder27** · 02-17-08, 08:06 PM

Redid my Lightsmark 2007 Test, I seem to have taken back the top score.

**Consultant** · 02-19-08, 08:58 AM

Originally Posted by sfg-Groove

overclocking 101 http://www.blazingpc.com/forum/showt...985/index.html
read over that then sign up for one of the best hardware/overclocking forums on the net.

All my posts here asking questions got deleted. What happened?