LTT 3DMark Thread

[ablangc]

Najuno, I remember you saying in a earlier post that you finally modded the bios on your tri 980 SLI setup. I know it's OT, but did you run another Valley benchmark?

[Najuno]

Najuno, I remember you saying in a earlier post that you finally modded the bios on your tri 980 SLI setup. I know it's OT, but did you run another Valley benchmark?

No I didn´t because somehow Valley doesn´t really work for me... Unigine Heaven is perfectly fine and it replies and reacts very positive  to my OCs but Valley... that´s horror for me. To see that I get as low as 6025 points with a highend machine and a 3way SLI setup makes Valley for me kind of obsolete in terms of benchmarking. I only run it for testing GPUs because I like to run an endless loop to stress a GPU.

Don´t get me wrong I don´t mean to be arrogant but I didn´t pump this amount of money in a system to see that Valley isn´t really up to date. It seems to have an issue with X99 more than with GPUs. And I would not be in every other benchmark or game benchmark go through the ceilings in terms of numbers or FPS.

[ablangc]

I gotcha. I just wondering because I wanted to see if modding the bios was worth it. I still have not bit the bullet and tried it myself. Just curious to see how high I can push it before I even think about modding the bios.

[Najuno]

I gotcha. I just wondering because I wanted to see if modding the bios was worth it. I still have not bit the bullet and tried it myself. Just curious to see how high I can push it before I even think about modding the bios.

Well all I can tell you it makes a difference. In the highend benchmarking where the both of us are 150+ points in the 4K benchmark is a lot. It put me from world wide #9 to world wide #6 in 3D Mark ULTRA in the Hall of Fame for 3 GPUs .

[ablangc]

I think I have hit the limit with the stock bios. I sat here for 2 hours last night tying to push the cards and got excellent Valley scores but the same OC for the gpu in Firestrike failed. I hate the disparity between the two benchmarks. I will try it next weekend if I can find the time. I may hit you up for your opinion via message if that is ok.

[Raudi_]

No I didn´t because somehow Valley doesn´t really work for me... Unigine Heaven is perfectly fine and it replies and reacts very positive  to my OCs but Valley... that´s horror for me. To see that I get as low as 6025 points with a highend machine and a 3way SLI setup makes Valley for me kind of obsolete in terms of benchmarking. I only run it for testing GPUs because I like to run an endless loop to stress a GPU.

Don´t get me wrong I don´t mean to be arrogant but I didn´t pump this amount of money in a system to see that Valley isn´t really up to date. It seems to have an issue with X99 more than with GPUs. And I would not be in every other benchmark or game benchmark go through the ceilings in terms of numbers or FPS.

Valley is based on CPU clock speed with the 900 series cards, @Jumper118 switched to his i5 2500k and ran it at 5.2GHz and scored almost 5K points with his 970's

[Najuno]

I think I have hit the limit with the stock bios. I sat here for 2 hours last night tying to push the cards and got excellent Valley scores but the same OC for the gpu in Firestrike failed. I hate the disparity between the two benchmarks. I will try it next weekend if I can find the time. I may hit you up for your opinion via message if that is ok.

Absolutely . Write me a message and we figure it out.

[ablangc]

Thank you

[Jumper118]

No I didn´t because somehow Valley doesn´t really work for me... Unigine Heaven is perfectly fine and it replies and reacts very positive  to my OCs but Valley... that´s horror for me. To see that I get as low as 6025 points with a highend machine and a 3way SLI setup makes Valley for me kind of obsolete in terms of benchmarking. I only run it for testing GPUs because I like to run an endless loop to stress a GPU.

Don´t get me wrong I don´t mean to be arrogant but I didn´t pump this amount of money in a system to see that Valley isn´t really up to date. It seems to have an issue with X99 more than with GPUs. And I would not be in every other benchmark or game benchmark go through the ceilings in terms of numbers or FPS.

Valley is based on CPU clock speed with the 900 series cards, @Jumper118 switched to his i5 2500k and ran it at 5.2GHz and scored almost 5K points with his 970's

yes i found the score was going up very nicely with the cpu clock. there must be certain scenes in valley that are limited by the cpu. especially at very high frame rates. i saw a review somewhere where they were running games at 720p to test to cpu rather than be limited by  the gpu. that was with a 7970 or 680 i think.

[Najuno]

yes i found the score was going up very nicely with the cpu clock. there must be certain scenes in valley that are limited by the cpu. especially at very high frame rates. i saw a review somewhere where they were running games at 720p to test to cpu rather than be limited by  the gpu. that was with a 7970 or 680 i think.

Okay in that case I will run Valley in 4K since my GPUs seem to get better the higher I go in resolution scaling wise. And at 4K the CPU shouldn´t be causing any more issues.

 

I mean I could stress my 5930K up to 4.8GHz but 5.2.... no not without LN2. But if that´s the case Valley would rely more on the CPU than 3d Mark in some aspects.

[Jumper118]

Okay in that case I will run Valley in 4K since my GPUs seem to get better the higher I go in resolution scaling wise. And at 4K the CPU shouldn´t be causing any more issues.

 

I mean I could stress my 5930K up to 4.8GHz but 5.2.... no not without LN2. But if that´s the case Valley would rely more on the CPU than 3d Mark in some aspects.

you dont have to go to 5.2ghz. ablangc went to 4.8ghz and beat you score at 1080p when your cpu was at 4.7ghz. it must be the cpu. just get as much as you can

[Najuno]

you dont have to go to 5.2ghz. ablangc went to 4.8ghz and beat you score at 1080p when your cpu was at 4.7ghz. it must be the cpu. just get as much as you can

No I won´t go higher I know exactly where the limit of my hardware is don´t worry .

 

I will run it these days in 4K and see from there on how Valley reacts with my system. Actually that could be interesting.

[TahoeDust]

OK..this is it.  Absolutely the most I can get out of my 970s and old Sandy Bridge...I did crack the top 10 though

 

Benchmark: Firestrike

CPU: i7 2700k @ 5.2GHz

GPU: SLI Gigabyte G1 970

CPU Core: 1611MHz

GPU Memory: 7600MHz

Score: 18656

3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3845467

[Bloodkil933]

Benchmark: Firestrike

CPU: 4790K @ 4.7Ghz
GPU: 290X Crossfire (2x)
GPU Core: 1200Mhz
GPU Memory: 1650Mhz

Score: 18880
3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3179803

 

Time for an update!

[ablangc]

Speaking of that, I forgot to update my old SLI 780 Ti scores.

CPU: 4790K @ 4.8Ghz
GPU: 780 Ti SLI
GPU Core: 1106Mhz
GPU Memory: 1978Mhz

Score: 19282
3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3464744

[ablangc]

I can't edit for some reason.  The benchmark for the scores I posted (#673) is for Firestrike

[SkilledRebuilds]

Loving this little GPU I got today,...150w @ peak /w this OC on the Sapphire 260x 2GB

 

Firestrike

CPU: 4690 @ 4.0Ghz
GPU: 260x
GPU Core: 1275Mhz
GPU Memory: 1450Mhz

Score: 3731
3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3857629

 

3DM11

CPU: 4690 @ 4.0Ghz
GPU: 260x
GPU Core: 1275Mhz
GPU Memory: 1450Mhz

Score: P6126
3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/9316416

 

Have only been using the +.100 provided with MSI, I could use +.200 with Trixx, but no need until my 290 is back from RMA, don't want to push more voltage on this..just yet, it may not be able to draw that much anyway, sitting around 120-145w in heavy scenes with minimal spikes to 148-151w.

 

[Najuno]

OK..this is it.  Absolutely the most I can get out of my 970s and old Sandy Bridge...I did crack the top 10 though

 

Benchmark: Firestrike

CPU: i7 2700k @ 5.2GHz

GPU: SLI Gigabyte G1 970

CPU Core: 1611MHz

GPU Memory: 7600MHz

Score: 18656

3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3845467

 

Sorry you got kicked out again by Bloodkil933 .

 

Benchmark: Firestrike

CPU: 4790K @ 4.7Ghz

GPU: 290X Crossfire (2x)

GPU Core: 1200Mhz

GPU Memory: 1650Mhz

Score: 18880

3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3179803

 

Time for an update!

 

 

Speaking of that, I forgot to update my old SLI 780 Ti scores.

CPU: 4790K @ 4.8Ghz

GPU: 780 Ti SLI

GPU Core: 1106Mhz

GPU Memory: 1978Mhz

Score: 19282

3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/3464744

 

Okay you guys really want me to tweak the high scores in FireStrike fighting for top ten scores.

 

EDITED and UPDATED 1/21/2015.

[ablangc]

LOL.  I just forgot to post my 780 Ti scores when I had them.  Now, I am stuck with the 980's......not that I am complaining. 

[Najuno]

LOL.  I just forgot to post my 780 Ti scores when I had them.  Now, I am stuck with the 980's......not that I am complaining. 

No your score are amazing! I see with your system the same what I see with mine though. The higher you go resolution wise the more the GTX980s stretch their legs and the more brutal your results become . I can´t wait for the big Maxwell GM200. I´ll be raving hard about that haha .

[TahoeDust]

Sorry you got kicked out again by Bloodkil933 .

 

 

 

 

Okay you guys really want me to tweak the high scores in FireStrike fighting for top ten scores.

 

EDITED and UPDATED 1/21/2015.

 

 

Damnit!  I don't think my 2700k has more than 5.2GHz (which you can update on the spreadsheet) in her without throwing more volts at it than I am comfortable with.

 

Dat GPU score doe...

[ablangc]

No your score are amazing! I see with your system the same what I see with mine though. The higher you go resolution wise the more the GTX980s stretch their legs and the more brutal your results become . I can´t wait for the big Maxwell GM200. I´ll be raving hard about that haha .

Oh god! As excited as I am for big maxwell, I hate to find out how much I will be spending. Sad thing is I will probably upgrade to that when it comes out as I find it more fun tweaking my system instead of playing games most of the time.

[Raudi_]

I'm waiting for Big Maxwell myself, cause I need some serious cards now these 770's are like childs play now.

[ablangc]

I guess we all have first world problems. I get asked all the time why I went for SLI 980's when I could have gone for the SLI 970's for almost half the price and have almost the same performance. I just shake my head and say, It's my money. Why do you even care if it is not coming out of your pocket?

[thebennyboy]

Benchmark: Fire Strike
CPU: FX-8320 @ 4.9Ghz
GPU: Crossfired R9 280X
GPU Core: 1130
GPU Memory: 1550

Score: 11325
3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5613316?