LTT 3DMark Thread

[Raudi_]

You know, I'm not sure what's up with my Sky Diver score. I mean, a 750Ti beat out a 7950 @ 900MHz, and throughout the bench, my G3258 never exceeded 50% utilization, but my 7950 was pinned to the wall.  :huh:

More cores and threads that's why if you look even my 650ti boost and HD 6950 beat your 7950 score.

[Najuno]

More cores and threads that's why if you look even my 650ti boost and HD 6950 beat your 7950 score.

That´s true if I´d put the 750Ti that I have laying around here on my 5960X I´d roflstomp you in 3D Mark all day long because my Physics score is so exponential higher than yours with 8cores/16threads in comparison to your 2 cores.

 

Don´t forget synthetic benchmarking is nice, but unless it is your hobby and you decide to go into extreme (which requires a bunch of money and even more experience), you will not stand a chance with a low budget machine against higher end stuff. Thus said this doesn´t have to apply 1 to 1 in games .

[Raudi_]

That´s true if I´d put the 750Ti that I have laying around here on my 5960X I´d roflstomp you in 3D Mark all day long because my Physics score is so exponential higher than yours with 8cores/16threads in comparison to your 2 cores.

 

Don´t forget synthetic benchmarking is nice, but unless it is your hobby and you decide to go into extreme (which requires a bunch of money and even more experience), you will not stand a chance with a low budget machine against higher end stuff. Thus said this doesn´t have to apply 1 to 1 in games .

I'm still planning to roflstomp you some day for a 3-way 980 run with a 5960x. 

[Najuno]

I'm still planning to roflstomp you some day for a 3-way 980 run with a 5960x. 

I would love to see you having this competitive hardware man . We could battle for the crown every week!

[Raudi_]

I would love to see you having this competitive hardware man . We could battle for the crown every week!

Idk if you saw but a 980 classy under LN2 hit 2250MHz core and 8700MHz memory making it the new fastest FS Extreme single card in the world. Still I am gonna wait a bit longer and see if MSI will do lighting versions. I like their lighting cards alot.

[Sargent Mustard]

Here we go

 

Benchmark: Fire Strike
CPU: i5 2500k @ 3.3Ghz
GPU: Sapphire 280X x 2
GPU Core: 1150Mhz
GPU Memory: 1600mhz

Score: 10653
3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4014777

 

 

Quite impressive considering my CPU is still stock as a rock.

[ApolloX75]

My GTX 970 just bit the bullet and I haven't even had a chance to OC it. Working one minute, dead the next, no reason. 

 

Sigh.

 

Was just about to start OC benching the QX too. Had it stable at 3.6 last night.

[Sargent Mustard]

My GTX 970 just bit the bullet and I haven't even had a chance to OC it. Working one minute, dead the next, no reason. 

 

Sigh.

 

Was just about to start OC benching the QX too. Had it stable at 3.6 last night.

It just died for no apparent reason? RMA time bro.

[ApolloX75]

It just died for no apparent reason? RMA time bro.

790i strikes again!

 

970 works now.

 

This board is cursed.

[ApolloX75]

And boom!

 

Benchmark: Fire Strike
CPU: Core2X QX9650 @ 3.66GHz
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970
GPU Core: 1114Mhz
GPU Memory: 11753mhz

Score: 8621
3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4015185

 

1000 point increase with a 660MHz overclock and I got a ton more headroom to go.

[ApolloX75]

Benchmark: Fire Strike
CPU: Core2X QX9650 @ 3.85GHz
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970
GPU Core: 1114Mhz
GPU Memory: 11753mhz

Score: 8814
3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4015343

 

So close to 9000! Had to up vCore to 1.325 and NBv to 1.175. Used a x11 multiplier and 400MHz FSB. So far stable, but still getting little spikes. May just be CPU throttling. I'm no longer breaking the 55C barrier thanks a Hyper 212. It's going to take some work but I'll break that 4GHz barrier soon.

[Najuno]

Fire Strike Results: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4013622

 

CPU: i7-3770k @ 4.6

GPU: ASUS GTX 980 STRIX x 2 SLI

GPU Core: 1430

GPU Memory: 1988

FIre Strike Score: 18790

Can you OC these GTX980s further? You are under a GTX970 2way SLI . But to be fair the guy has a Haswell E CPU.

 

And boom!

 

Benchmark: Fire Strike

CPU: Core2X QX9650 @ 3.66GHz

GPU: Gigabyte GTX 970

GPU Core: 1114Mhz

GPU Memory: 11753mhz

Score: 8621

3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/4015185

 

1000 point increase with a 660MHz overclock and I got a ton more headroom to go.

 

Your CPU scaled very good with the OC, but you should start OCing your GPU... 8814 points, you could be more at 10000-10500 points if your card´s a good OCer.

 

EDITED and UPDATED 2/8/2015.

[JustCallMeVlad]

Idk if you saw but a 980 classy under LN2 hit 2250MHz core and 8700MHz memory making it the new fastest FS Extreme single card in the world. Still I am gonna wait a bit longer and see if MSI will do lighting versions. I like their lighting cards alot.

They're not. MSI reps have said no Lightning cards till big Maxwell

[NeatSquidYT]

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5336239?

 

Pentium G3258 @ 4.6GHz, MSI GTX 970 +69 core offset +218 mem. offset (cba to OC anymore)

[Raudi_]

They're not. MSI reps have said no Lightning cards till big Maxwell

Damn well looks like K|NGP|N cards and hope for some great overclockrs then. I've got put on a waiting list for a binned 5960x now already been paid for.

[JustCallMeVlad]

Damn well looks like K|NGP|N cards and hope for some great overclockrs then. I've got put on a waiting list for a binned 5960x now already been paid for.

You seriously wasted money on a binned 5960X?

[Najuno]

You seriously wasted money on a binned 5960X?

Well if you can get a 5960X up to 4.8GHz you can benefit in FS. But TBH I´ve done lots of testing with my 5930K and 5960X and both go up to 4.7GHz which makes them both very good samples. The difference is diminishing in 3D Mark ULTRA unless you can run 5.2GHz stable, which won´t happen even at 1.6V without LN2 cooling. My score in 3D Mark ULTRA  improved by like 80 points with the 5960X to the 5930K because this really relies on the raw computing power of your GPUs. And then OCing 3 and 4way is very much different to single or 2way because the system gets stressed completely different.

[Raudi_]

You seriously wasted money on a binned 5960X?

Not wasted in my book, I don't want to need 1.45v or 1.5v for a 5960x  for it to do 4.7GHz, Some people look at it as being wasted but also a 4.4GHz sample on there is $899.99  for the 5960x. So you can save money even if you get a lower binned 5960x from them.

[Najuno]

Not wasted in my book, I don't want to need 1.45v or 1.5v for a 5960x  for it to do 4.7GHz, Some people look at it as being wasted but also a 4.4GHz sample on there is $899.99  for the 5960x. So you can save money even if you get a lower binned 5960x from them.

Well I don´t have any issues with 1.45V @ 4.7GHz and it´s rare to see a 5960X going up to 4.8GHz and even so the benefit isn´t that great, like written before unless you can go way beyond 5GHz which won´t happen under water you will not benefit like crazy from it. My sample runs 4.4GHz @ 1.25V btw. So buying one of these is not a guarantee that you´ll get way much more.

The hottest of all 8 cores I get with 4.7GHz is 68° Celsius in Aida64, so I don´t see why 1.45V should be a problem for my large loop.

[Raudi_]

Well I don´t have any issues with 1.45V @ 4.7GHz and it´s rare to see a 5960X going up to 4.8GHz and even so the benefit isn´t that great, like written before unless you can go way beyond 5GHz which won´t happen under water you will not benefit like crazy from it. My sample runs 4.4GHz @ 1.25V btw. So buying one of these is not a guarantee that you´ll get way much more.

The hottest of all 8 cores I get with 4.7GHz is 68° Celsius in Aida64, so I don´t see why 1.45V should be a problem for my large loop.

For me it was more so voltage for the clock speeds since I don't have the money to spend on a new case for a loop for the CPU and GPU's, I have to keep it cool under a 280mm AIO, But also I can't take the risk again of having a dud of a overclocker like my 4770k is. I mean 1.55v just to bench 4.7GHz now in my book is a dud no matter how you look at it. Did I overpay? Fuck yes. Was it really worth it? Probably not but to keep records high for me for HWbot and doing as much as I can on Air and AIO's its a dive I wanted to take.

[JustCallMeVlad]

For me it was more so voltage for the clock speeds since I don't have the money to spend on a new case for a loop for the CPU and GPU's, I have to keep it cool under a 280mm AIO, But also I can't take the risk again of having a dud of a overclocker like my 4770k is. I mean 1.55v just to bench 4.7GHz now in my book is a dud no matter how you look at it. Did I overpay? Fuck yes. Was it really worth it? Probably not but to keep records high for me for HWbot and doing as much as I can on Air and AIO's its a dive I wanted to take.

So you'll spend money on a binned 5960X but are too cheap to spend the money on a custom high end loop? Your logic is flawed

[Raudi_]

So you'll spend money on a binned 5960X but are too cheap to spend the money on a custom high end loop? Your logic is flawed

Not my Logic, my money, remember not everyone has money to blow on hardware, this a work in progress.

[Najuno]

For me it was more so voltage for the clock speeds since I don't have the money to spend on a new case for a loop for the CPU and GPU's, I have to keep it cool under a 280mm AIO, But also I can't take the risk again of having a dud of a overclocker like my 4770k is. I mean 1.55v just to bench 4.7GHz now in my book is a dud no matter how you look at it. Did I overpay? Fuck yes. Was it really worth it? Probably not but to keep records high for me for HWbot and doing as much as I can on Air and AIO's its a dive I wanted to take.

Well yeah we are looking at this different because I would never run this CPU with an AIO. And I never use 1.55V because there´s no benefit it that. 4.7GHz is the limit of my chip to get it run stable and 4.8GHz may or may not run so why bother about a not stable system .

That is fine why you bought the binned chip and you won´t hear me talk bad about it m8. It is just no problem for me to control my temps in my machine, that´s all.

[Raudi_]

Well yeah we are looking at this different because I would never run this CPU with an AIO. And I never use 1.55V because there´s no benefit it that. 4.7GHz is the limit of my chip to get it run stable and 4.8GHz may or may not run so why bother about a not stable system .

That is fine why you bought the binned chip and you won´t hear me talk bad about it m8. It is just no problem for me to control my temps in my machine, that´s all.

Yeah, I mean if I had more money to spend on cooling and a getting a new case it would be a different story. 

Thanks for at least understanding my reasoning.

[ApolloX75]

Your CPU scaled very good with the OC, but you should start OCing your GPU... 8814 points, you could be more at 10000-10500 points if your card´s a good OCer.

EDITED and UPDATED 2/8/2015.

I was surprised too. I'm starting to oc the card tonight, so I'll post more as I bench.