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[ColonialRaptor]

Heh, good thread

I've just been going hard on my CPU trying to see what kind of OC I can take it to, running the benchmark again now at 4.0 and we'll see how much that extra 500mhz of CPU power helps my score


Annnnnnd... I actually scored lower than yesterday... plus my cards were up at 910/1410 as well... my Graphics score was higher, but the Physics score was lower... go figure lol.

 

[Cystm]

P4737 - x1 GTX560 Ti Twin Frozr II/OC (1000/2100/1.15) - Q6600 Quad @ 3.2 Ghz - 8Gb Kingston Hyper X DDR2 @ 1066 Mhz - ASUS P5Q Pro - Cystm - Air - Link.

 

[iSurvivedTheOutage]

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1887177?show_ads=true&page=/3dm11/1887177?key=QSSra0hvPwxJYrZ8bDDKB6PzTns9De

so that would put me at 31 m i rite?

 

[ScRYeD]

P9737 - 2x Gigabyte GTX580 S0 1.5GB (SLI) @ 905/1810/1075 @ stock voltage - AMD 1100T @ 4.0Ghz - 8GB Corsair XM3 DDR3 @ 1600 - Gigabyte 990fxa-ud7 - ScRYeD - Air - Link

 

[MisterNoisy]

New score - I decided to OC the GPU as far as it would go before I had to increase the voltage going to it and a less mild CPU overclock.

P6120 - 1x Asus GTX 570 1.25GB (800/2000) - i5 2500K @4.4Ghz - Corsair Vengeance Low Voltage 8GB PC3-12800 - ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 - MisterNoisy - Air - Link

I'm really happy with how cool everything remained - neither the CPU or GPU got over 55C during the run, so there's a fair bit of headroom left.

 

[iSurvivedTheOutage]

pffft...............

 

[toastyToast]

More points

P4745 - 1x HD5850 1GB (890/1250) - 2500K @ 4.9GHz - 8GB G.Skill Sniper DDR3 1600 - Asus P8Z68-V Pro - toasty_T - Thermalright Silver Arrow (Air) Link

 

[n0n44m]

p7743 - MSI GTX 580 Lightning 970/1940/2150 - i7 920 @ 4.2ghz (zalman cnps10x quiet) - 3 x 2 gb corsair @ 1600 mhz @ 9-9-9-74 - Gigabyte EX58 UD3R - AIR - Link: http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1558871;jse...11/1558871?key=3BCynycPjnvDhWVVSwrpwb0yPtf9s5

you'll be close to 8000 once you update to the latest Nvidia beta drivers

btw what voltage is the card at ?

 

[Adamm]

P10737 - 2x GTX 480 (800mhz/1536mb) - Intel Core i7-950 @ 4.0Ghz - 6gb Corsair @ 667mhz - Gigabyte X58A-UD3R - Adamm - Air - Link

EDIT: There we go

 

[Hazaro]

P10397 - 2x 6950 - 950/1350/1.25v - i5 2500k @ 4.5ghz - 16GB GSKILL DDR3 @ 1600 - Asus P8P67 Pro - comrade - Air - Link

Some nice rigs here on gaf.

Are those unlocked?
Seems far higher than my bench at 950/1350 at 4.6Ghz. Don't think RAM speed has that much of an impact, but maybe I'm wrong here.

 

[mtommy]

Please write out in correct format... it's close, but no cigar

P7243 - EVGA GTX580 SC (885/2050) - Intel Core i5 2500k @ 4.5Ghz - 8GB G.Skill @ 1600 - ASUS P8Z68-V PRO - mtommy - Air - Link

 

[Mazdarati]

New score - I decided to OC the GPU as far as it would go before I had to increase the voltage going to it and a less mild CPU overclock.

P6120 - 1x Asus GTX 570 1.25GB (800/2000) - i5 2500K @4.4Ghz - Corsair Vengeance Low Voltage 8GB PC3-12800 - ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 - MisterNoisy - Air - Link

I'm really happy with how cool everything remained - neither the CPU or GPU got over 55C during the run, so there's a fair bit of headroom left.

New score here as well. I also tried to OC the 570 without changing the voltage and my score went up from 5745 to 6179. (732Mhz-815Mhz) I think that's a far as I'm going to try to go...

Updated score:
P6179 - 1x EVGA GTX 570 HD (815/1900/stock) - Core i5 2500k @ 4.2Ghz @ 1.27v - PNY 8gb DDR3-1333 - MSI-P67A-GD55 Mazdarati - Air Link

Thanks ColonialRaptor for the thread and updating the leader board daily.

 

[mclaren777]

System: 2600K & GTX 460, both of them stock

I installed 3dmark 2011

I patched it to 1.02 (it prompted me to)

I patched the System Info file (it prompted me to)

I ran the benchmark but got this instead...

 

[| Praxis |]

System: 2600K & GTX 460, both of them stock

I installed 3dmark 2011

I patched it to 1.02 (it prompted me to)

I patched the System Info file (it prompted me to)

I ran the benchmark but got this instead...

Go into Avast > Real Time Shields > Behavior Shield > Expert Settings > Trusted Processes > Then browse to your 3DMark11 folder and add "3DMark11Workload1" to trusted processes.


Now, could someone enlighten me please?

My score seems low and 3Dmark is not reading the overclock on my CPU (It should be 4.4)? Do I need to enable something?

P6149 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 - I7 2600k @ 3392 MHz - 2 x 4096 MB G.Skill 9 @ 667 MHz -Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P67A-UD4 - Air

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1886519

It tells me my score is low for my system and I should be targeting P6900

 

[RukusProvider]

My score seems low and 3Dmark is not reading the overclock on my CPU (It should be 4.4)? Do I need to enable something?

P6149 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 - I7 2600k @ 3392 MHz - 2 x 4096 MB G.Skill 9 @ 667 MHz -Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P67A-UD4 - Air

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1886519

It tells me my score is low for my system and I should be targeting P6900

Install CPU-Z or other apps to make sure your CPU Overclock is actually being applied.

You should also overclock (carefully). I have a very similar setup as you and scoring 7700+ My CPU is at 4.6ghz and GTX580 running at 900/1800/2200 with a vcore of 1.088

 

[n0n44m]

Now, could someone enlighten me please?

your physics score is pretty terrible for a 4.4 2600K, should be 50% higher at least ... looks more like a stock 2600K ... hell lower even if I compare to a stock run of mine from January

you sure it's overclocked? hyperthreading enabled? sure you got memory running in dual channel mode?

download CPU-Z to check some things

your graphics tests look OK

 

[bloodydrake]

My score seems low and 3Dmark is not reading the overclock on my CPU (It should be 4.4)? Do I need to enable something?

P6149 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 - I7 2600k @ 3392 MHz - 2 x 4096 MB G.Skill 9 @ 667 MHz -Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. P67A-UD4 - Air

http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1886519

It tells me my score is low for my system and I should be targeting P6900

is it possible your just using turbo mode @4.4? My understanding is that turbo only runs one thread Overclocked and rest will run at base speed.so single threaded apps get big boost but multithreaded apps don't react as well

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

I can only seem to get my GTX 580 (Twin Frozr) up to 880mhz on 1.138 voltage and stable at the moment. Memory clock is 2200mhz. Any tips?

 

[lowrider007]

is it possible your just using turbo mode @4.4? My understanding is that turbo only runs one thread Overclocked and rest will run at base speed.so single threaded apps get big boost but multithreaded apps don't react as well

Really?, I've just upgraded to an i5 system so this turbo mode and offset business is all new to me but I didn't think that was the case?

 

[n0n44m]

I can only seem to get my GTX 580 (Twin Frozr) up to 880mhz on 1.138 voltage and stable at the moment. Memory clock is 2200mhz. Any tips?

1.138 is the max without bios flashing (and max on air anyway)

lower the memory because it's not a bottleneck probably, maybe that allows a bit more headroom for the core

everything else amounts to better cooling. Either a table fan next to your computer or replacing the thermal paste/cooling of the card and other warranty voiding activities you'll probably not like

880 on a normal 580 with max vCore on air isn't great but nothing out of the ordinary most cards going over 900 are Lightnings / Matrixes and what not with more cooling and more voltage capabilities

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

1.138 is the max without bios flashing (and max on air anyway)

lower the memory because it's not a bottleneck probably, maybe that allows a bit more headroom for the core

everything else amounts to better cooling. Either a table fan next to your computer or replacing the thermal paste/cooling of the card and other warranty voiding activities you'll probably not like

Ah interesting, I'll try that thanks!

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

Just bought a heatsink that arrives this Monday, hopefully I'll be posting a score similar to Mazdarati's by then.

 

[bloodydrake]

Really?, I've just upgraded to an i5 system so this turbo mode and offset business is all new to me but I didn't think that was the case?

Heres anandTech article about sandy bridge
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083
Heres part i was thinking about..

When running a single threaded application, the Core i7-2600K will power gate three of its four cores and turbo the fourth core as high as 3.8GHz. Even with two cores active, the 32nm chip can run them both up to 3.7GHz. The only thing keeping us from 4GHz is a lack of competition to be honest. Relying on single-click motherboard auto-overclocking alone, the 2600K is easily at 4.4GHz. For those of you who want more, 4.6-4.8GHz is within reason. All on air, without any exotic cooling

 

[| Praxis |]

your physics score is pretty terrible for a 4.4 2600K, should be 50% higher at least ... looks more like a stock 2600K ... hell lower even if I compare to a stock run of mine from January

you sure it's overclocked? hyperthreading enabled? sure you got memory running in dual channel mode?

download CPU-Z to check some things

your graphics tests look OK

Oh dear, you are right about the memory. I have had two sticks of 4gb Gskill ripjaws in slots 3 & 4 , not dual channel. Problem is my CPU cooler (Akasa Venom) is blocking slots 1 & 2

 

[lowrider007]

Mate can't you put the fan on the other side of the heat sink and have it pull the air through the head sink rather than push?

 

[| Praxis |]

Mate can't you put the fan on the otherwise of the heat sink and have it pull the air through the head sink rather than push?

Is that going to be good enough? I don't want to fry my I7 2600k so close the battlefield 3

 

[n0n44m]

Oh dear, you are right about the memory. I have had two sticks of 4gb Gskill ripjaws in slots 3 & 4 , not dual channel. Problem is my CPU cooler (Akasa Venom) is blocking slots 1 & 2

had a hunch lol ... but ouch, that seriously kills performance

best is to place the fan on the other side (still keep it blowing towards the back ofcourse), will increasing your temperature somewhat (~5ish Celcius?) but it's worth the performance increase.

Alternatively you might try to place it on the other side and turn both the back case fan and cpu fan around so the back fan works as an intake fan for the CPU fan. You would need some good fans in the top to not disturb airflow too much though.

or try to remove the heatspreaders from the ram (voids warranty)

 

[lowrider007]

Is that going to be good enough? I don't want to fry my I7 2600k so close the battlefield 3

Your not going to fry your chip, it will just run a little hotter, just run a few bench tests after to see if it's still ok with the new temps, if not nudge the clock down a bit.

 

[Red]

or try to remove the heatspreaders from the ram (voids warranty)

I do this for two sticks, and have never had a problem. If your PC has an intake fan blowing air over RAM, you'll be fine. Even without that it shouldn't cause trouble.

Most of those heat spreaders are for show.

 

[Corky]

From what I've understood heatspreaders on ram are totally superfluous. Could be wrong.

 

[n0n44m]

yeah wouldnt recommend it if it caused issues now would I ?

(does limit extreme ram overclocking technically but then you'd want/buy something better anyway)

 

[papersleeves]

P11639

This was done at 5ghz.

For more information : http://www.overclock.net/13667272-post705.html

I'm not sure I give enough of a shit to re-run it, considering it requires a truck load of bios adjustment, but we'll see.

 

[woober]

I just ran a test on my PC at stock settings. OCing it in a few days so I'll be updating my score.

P5019 - 1x XFX 6950 - (800/1250/stock) - i7 2600k @ 3.8 Ghz - 8 GB G.Skill DDR3 @ 800 MHz - ASUS Maximus IV - Woober - Water (Corsair H60) Link

 

[lowrider007]

Monitoring cpu-z on my secondary screen while running 3d mark I noticed that my cpu is only stepping up during the physics tests, is that normal?, I finished with P5485 which 3d mark says is lower than average but my physics was fine @ p7928.

i5-2500k @ 4.3
GTX570

 

[n0n44m]

Monitoring cpu-z on my secondary screen while running 3d mark I noticed that my cpu is only stepping up during the physics tests, is that normal?, I finished with P5485 which 3d mark says is lower than average but my physics was fine @ p7928.

i5-2500k @ 4.3
GTX570

yeah graphics parts are only graphically intensive, hardly use any CPU

that's why it's good to look at the separate scores for physics/graphics as well when comparing results

 

[CrazyIvan1978]

P5522 - 2x Sapphire HD5770 - 900/1300/1.0v - Core i7 920 @ 3.046Ghz - 6Gb @ 1600Mhz- ASRock X58 Extreme - CrazyIvan1978 - Air - Link


Some light OC to get my e-peen shinier...

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

P6742 - 1x MSI GTX 580 TwinFrozr 1.5GB (915/2048/1.138v) - Core i5 2500K @ 4.5GHz - 8GB Corsair DDR3 XMS3 1333 - Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4/B3 - LabouredSubterfuge - Cooler Master Hyper 212+ - Link

 

[Arlecchino]

P7242 - 2x HD6850 1GB(980/1180/1156) - Intel Core i5-2500k@ 4500 MHz - 4GB GSkill @ 1600mhz - MSI P67A-GD65 - Arlecchino - Cooler Master Hyper 212+ - Link

 

[n0n44m]

P6742 - 1x MSI GTX 580 TwinFrozr 1.5GB (915/2048/1.138v) - core i5 2500K @ 4.5GHz - 8GB Corsair DDR3 XMS3 1333 - Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4/B3 - LabouredSubterfuge - Cooler Master Hyper 212+ - Link

graphical score seems low compared to my 480 (even with the +15mhz for me) ... you might want to try the latest Nvidia beta drivers

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

graphical score seems low compared to my 480 (even with the +15mhz for me) ... you might want to try the latest Nvidia beta drivers

The latest drivers have been causing a lot of random crashes which is why I rolled back to 275.33 which fixed a lot of problems. Was waiting on a new driver update from Nvidia before jumping back to 280.

Edit: I hear tell new WHQL drivers are being released tomorrow so I'll jump then.

 

[n0n44m]

The latest drivers have been causing a lot of random crashes which is why I rolled back to 275.33 which fixed a lot of problems. Was waiting on a new driver update from Nvidia before jumping back to 280.

Edit: I hear tell new WHQL drivers are being released tomorrow so I'll jump then.

same here with the WHQL ones but the latest BETAs have been OK

and for benching true stability doesn't matter

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

same here with the WHQL ones but the latest BETAs have been OK

and for benching true stability doesn't matter

Oh in principle I agree, but this was causing crashes not even under load but at idle.

I might give the beta a cheeky go though :lol

I'm a whore for performance

 

[lowrider007]

P5485 - 1 x Palit GTX 570 (732Mhz/1900Mhz) i5-2500k @ 4.3 Turbo - Cosair 8GB DDR3 1648Mhz - Asus P8Z68-V - Enermax Liberty 620w - Link

Any ideas as to why mine is so low?

 

[n0n44m]

P5485 - 1 x Palit GTX 570 (732Mhz/1900Mhz) i5-2500k @ 4.3 Turbo - Cosair 8GB DDR3 1648Mhz - Asus P8Z68-V - Enermax Liberty 620w - Link

Any ideas as to why mine is so low?

are you using the motherboard graphical output or just the 570?

 

[lowrider007]

are you using the motherboard graphical output or just the 570?

I am using the 570 to power my main screen and I have an old ati card in the second pci-e slot to power two other monitors, I realise that means my 570 runs @ PCI-E 2.0 x16 @ x8 but that shouldn't be limiting my card should it?

I'm temped to take out the old ati card and run it at a full x16.

 

[Tomodachi]

P3696 - 1x MSI GTX 560 Ti - 880/1024/default - AMD Phenom II X4 840 @ 3200Mhz - 4096MB @ 400Mhz - Sapphire AM2RS790G - Tomodachi - Air - http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1890817

Maybe it's not the best place to ask, but what would you upgrade first? What's the bottleneck here? RAM is pretty old and crappy but I'm not sure that changing it would bring a big jump ahead with games.
My detailed score was average for my system in graphics compartment, but pretty low in physics. Maybe I should buy a dedicated physics card?

 

[mclaren777]

Go into Avast > Real Time Shields > Behavior Shield > Expert Settings > Trusted Processes > Then browse to your 3DMark11 folder and add "3DMark11Workload1" to trusted processes.

Thanks a bunch!

P3593 - 1x MSI GTX 460 1GB - stock speeds - 2600K @ stock 3.4 GHz - 8GB @ stock 1333 MHz - ASUS P8P67 - mclaren777 - Air

 

[knitoe]

P3696 - 1x MSI GTX 560 Ti - 880/1024/default - AMD Phenom II X4 840 @ 3200Mhz - 4096MB @ 400Mhz - Sapphire AM2RS790G - Tomodachi - Air - http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1890817

Maybe it's not the best place to ask, but what would you upgrade first? What's the bottleneck here? RAM is pretty old and crappy but I'm not sure that changing it would bring a big jump ahead with games.
My detailed score was average for my system in graphics compartment, but pretty low in physics. Maybe I should buy a dedicated physics card?

You need to upgrade to a Intel CPU, heavy favor on bench, which would require new MB and possibly new ram.

 

[PGamer]

P4659 - 1x EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti - 850 MHz/1024 MB/Default Voltage - Core i7 2600K @ 3.40 GHz - 8 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 @ 1600 - ASUS P8P67 Deluxe REV 3.0 - PGamer - Corsair H70 - Link

Edit: I have a question about the cooling. I have a Corsair H70 for my CPU but the rest is all air cooled. Should that be counted as air cooling or water cooling or something else?

 

[n0n44m]

I am using the 570 to power my main screen and I have an old ati card in the second pci-e slot to power two other monitors, I realise that means my 570 runs @ PCI-E 2.0 x16 @ x8 but that shouldn't be limiting my card should it?

I'm temped to take out the old ati card and run it at a full x16.

x8 / x16 makes only the slightest of differences, so I doubt it's just that

however maybe running multiple monitors (even though they're on another card) might cause some performance loss ... not really certain but I'd try disabling the other monitors or even the Ati card (in device manager) temporarily to see whether it changes anything

P3696 - 1x MSI GTX 560 Ti - 880/1024/default - AMD Phenom II X4 840 @ 3200Mhz - 4096MB @ 400Mhz - Sapphire AM2RS790G - Tomodachi - Air - http://3dmark.com/3dm11/1890817

Maybe it's not the best place to ask, but what would you upgrade first? What's the bottleneck here? RAM is pretty old and crappy but I'm not sure that changing it would bring a big jump ahead with games.
My detailed score was average for my system in graphics compartment, but pretty low in physics. Maybe I should buy a dedicated physics card?

I like how you have no less than FOUR different brands of memory sticks in there

forget about dedicated physics, unless you are a huuuge Batman fanboy (only upcoming PhysX game I know of). The "physics" in 3dmark reflect your CPU and the combination of your CPU and GPU. (Test 5 is CPU only, Test 6 combined)

you score low because a 3.2GHz Phenom X4 is low these days, AND your DDR2 memory is making it even worse.

I'd just save for a i5 2500K or AMD Bulldozer setup and meanwhile try to overclock the CPU somewhat. It should play all current games without much issues