3DMark 06 Scores

[srpeters18]

What are your temps like at that OC?

[PP Mguire]

Now with adding a second GX2 games at high resolutions with lots of AA and AF makes a big difference. Games respond really well. But benchmarks like 3DMark06 are a different story.

SLI really does work.

I agree it really does work now with ALOT ebtter drivers. I cant wait to run SLI on my X2 5600+ OCed.

[Muppet]

What are your temps like at that OC?

We are just coming to the end of Summer down here. So temps are around the low to mid 20c.
Idle is 38 degrees celcius to 42 degrees celcius depending on which core it is. Load temps are mid to high 60's.

[Sadasius]

I'm using a Danger Den watercooling setup.
Rest of the components are
XFX 790i Ultra,
2x 9800GX2,
2x1Gb Gskill DDR3 1333 CL7 @1600Mhz,
1,000 Watt Silverstone Olympia PSU,
SB X-Fi
4x 250Gb WD Hardrives Raid 0,
Coolermaster Stacker 831,
24" Dell 2407.

I have ordered a QX9650 that will be here this week.
I will be interested to see your results.

Okay my system is a little different.

Q6600 SLACR GO,
9800GX2 (hopefully soon)
X38 Maximus Extreme,
2X1gb Crucial Ballistix DDR3 1600,
Ultra X3 1000,
4X500gb Western Digital raid 0,
Customized Thermaltake Xaser VI with airbrushing,
Customized water cooling setup using.....CPU D-Tek Fuzion....Moffets 2X EKWaterblock 3a...NorthBridge EKWaterblock....SouthBridge EKwaterblock....2X GTX240 gen 2's (all internal blowing out of case)....EK Reservoir 250mm....Tygon13mm tubing....Bitspower 13mm compression fittings + 4 Koolance quickconnects....Dual Swiftech MCP655 with speed control.....8X SilenX IXP-74-14 Ixtrema Pro 120mm x 25mm 14dBA 72CFM Fan w/ Red LED's.

Still not all done with this system as there is still a lot of work to do. But I am keeping build pics of the whole thing. Will make it's own thread after I am done. Still have not fully decided on the monitor yet. Was thinking of going 30" but I may end up going dual 24" instead. Wait till you see the freakin case though...Damn! I have enough air going in and out to suck a dog through...

[Muppet]

Okay my system is a little different.

Q6600 SLACR GO,
9800GX2 (hopefully soon)
X38 Maximus Extreme,
2X1gb Crucial Ballistix DDR3 1600,
Ultra X3 1000,
4X500gb Western Digital raid 0,
Customized Thermaltake Xaser VI with airbrushing,
Customized water cooling setup using.....CPU D-Tek Fuzion....Moffets 2X EKWaterblock 3a...NorthBridge EKWaterblock....SouthBridge EKwaterblock....2X GTX240 gen 2's (all internal blowing out of case)....EK Reservoir 250mm....Tygon13mm tubing....Bitspower 13mm compression fittings + 4 Koolance quickconnects....Dual Swiftech MCP655 with speed control.....8X SilenX IXP-74-14 Ixtrema Pro 120mm x 25mm 14dBA 72CFM Fan w/ Red LED's.

Still not all done with this system as there is still a lot of work to do. But I am keeping build pics of the whole thing. Will make it's own thread after I am done. Still have not fully decided on the monitor yet. Was thinking of going 30" but I may end up going dual 24" instead. Wait till you see the freakin case though...Damn! I have enough air going in and out to suck a dog through...

That sounds like an awesome setup. I'd really love to see some pics of that.

[darkorb]

Sad tell me how that board is

[Sadasius]

Sad tell me how that board is

No problem. Once it's all done I will include as much info as I can muster along with pics. Basically it will be one big review of the parts working together.

[swmeek]

Okay I ran 3d msrk 06 the other night with my new video card installed and my score was 9777.
my system is Intel x6800 Core 2 Duo at the stock speed (2.93mhz)
XFX MB-680-ISH motherboard
2 GB's of Corsair DDR2 800 ram
XFX 9800 GTX using the 174.74 driver
Windows xp MCE sp2
No overclocking at all.
Is this pretty good ?

[PP Mguire]

No thats horrible. Look at my score. 700 points lower than yours and you machine should be pwning the dog snot outa mine. I think you need to look into what ever is causing your performance decrease.

[swmeek]

I had a feeling it might have been caused by the slower memory for the motherboard I'm using but I'm not sure.
I'm definitely not educated in the finer points of tweaking my system and at the moment my crazy computer won't shut down for some reason.
I think it was the last round of MS updates as the last time it did this I installed a driver for my Merc keyboard from the MS site.
Once I uninstalled it and installed the one from the Ideazon site it worked fine.

[PP Mguire]

Yea i just keep SP2 from the disk i made and updates arent even in my copy of Windows XP. You have all your drivers installed and everything right? Everything stock should be fine and you should be getting alot higher score than that.

[swmeek]

Oh yeah my drivers are all fairly current.
I thought my problem was maybe caused by either Rivatuner which says it's not compatiable with my 9800 gtx or something had gone wrong with the 174.74 driver I downloaded the other day but deleting them both made no difference in my computer shutting down.

[PP Mguire]

When it shuts down is just just sudden? If so then something is overheating causing your computer to imidiately shut down which is usualy the CPU. I believe the 174.74 WHQL drivers where made for the 9800GTX and GX2 so no worries there. Rivatuner even if its not compatible shouldnt be giving you problems. How bout chipset drivers? You running those and are current on them?

[swmeek]

Sorry maybe I confused you but the computer will not shut down or restart using the controls under the start button.
I can press the start button and it will go through the phases of shutting down, says it's saving my stuff,says windows is shutting down,you'll hear the click inside the computer and then the screen saying windows is shutting down stays on and the computer is still running and running and running.
I can still go and hold down the power button and it will shut down then or if i'm just restarting I can use the reset button.

[PP Mguire]

Then something you have running in the background is causing Windows to hang.