LTT 3DMark Thread

[iamdarkyoshi]

pfft if only 

The cooler handles 1.45-1.46 on air for benching anything more and the card blackscreens and throttles 

holy hot damn. I have my  390x under water but I am too afraid to push the XFX PCB very far...

[Raudi_]

I haven't been around here all that long but it is nice to see a familiar name in this thread!

Man you have no idea, having him back around is gonna drive my motivation to get hardware and smash scores even more.

[Raudi_]

holy hot damn. I have my  390x under water but I am too afraid to push the XFX PCB very far...

Yeah thats the joy of owning a Lighting series card. They have the absolute most monster aircooler on the market 

[iamdarkyoshi]

Yeah thats the joy of owning a Lighting series card. They have the absolute most monster aircooler on the market 

The XFX coolers are shit, thus the watercooling on mine. I wish one could buy GPUs PCBs without the heatsink with the sole intention of liquid cooling. Seems like it would save money.

[gt403cyl]

Man you have no idea, having him back around is gonna drive my motivation to get hardware and smash scores even more.

Lol no doubt got my MSI Z170 titanium board in last week and I'm hoping to order my 6700k in the next 2 weeks, got my fingers crossed for hitting 5GHz on this one..... I got lucky on my 4770k hitting 4.8GHz without a delid.........

[iamdarkyoshi]

Lol no doubt got my MSI Z170 titanium board in last week and I'm hoping to order my 6700k in the next 2 weeks, got my fingers crossed for hitting 5GHz on this one..... I got lucky on my 4770k hitting 4.8GHz without a delid.........

I got 4.8ghz under 1.4v easy with my 3930k sandy bridge. Stock clock is a measly 3.2ghz.

[Raudi_]

Lol no doubt got my MSI Z170 titanium board in last week and I'm hoping to order my 6700k in the next 2 weeks, got my fingers crossed for hitting 5GHz on this one..... I got lucky on my 4770k hitting 4.8GHz without a delid.........

You will need pure gold to have a 6700k hit 5 GHz 

It might post but 24/7 no way 

I was wanting skylake, but my second 4770k is doing strong still for benching and only Haswell/Brodwell-E will help me any

[gt403cyl]

You will need pure gold to have a 6700k hit 5 GHz

It might post but 24/7 no way

I was wanting skylake, but my second 4770k is doing strong still for benching and only Haswell/Brodwell-E will help me any

Yeah I know it's about the same odds as winning the lottery (no pun intended) but at least I know the motherboard is capable.....

Once I get the new build done I might delid the 4770k and see how it goes.....

[Najuno]

You will need pure gold to have a 6700k hit 5 GHz 

It might post but 24/7 no way 

I was wanting skylake, but my second 4770k is doing strong still for benching and only Haswell/Brodwell-E will help me any

I doubt you will benefit a lot from going from Haswell to Skylake... at least not when it comes to multithreaded benchmarks such as 3D Mark´s Physics benchmark itself. Wait until next year and go for X99 and Broadwell E... hehe I might have a 5960X by then for selling .

[gt403cyl]

I doubt you will benefit a lot from going from Haswell to Skylake... at least not when it comes to multithreaded benchmarks such as 3D Mark´s Physics benchmark itself. Wait until next year and go for X99 and Broadwell E... hehe I might have a 5960X by then for selling .

I'm not expecting much difference, the reason for the upgrade is my components are being gifted to a family member to upgrade their PC so I might as well upgrade mine rather than get another Z97 setup.  Otherwise I would have waited for Broadwell E...

[Najuno]

I'm not expecting much difference, the reason for the upgrade is my components are being gifted to a family member to upgrade their PC so I might as well upgrade mine rather than get another Z97 setup.  Otherwise I would have waited for Broadwell E...

Yeah I guess that makes sense in that case. Nontheless I haven´t layed a hand on Broadwell or Skylake yet so I don´t really have a feel for these CPUs... but then again I don´t really have much CPUs other than Haswell E here. The only non Haswell E is my home server which runs an i5 4590 with H97.

I´m sure for gaming 4c/4th is just fine, actually I´m super happy with my 5960X here but it won´t be much of an option against Broadwell´s 10core monster next year in benchmarks. But that´s fine I render and convert also lots of videos, so more cores are always welcome at my side hehe.

[arnavvr]

Yeah I guess that makes sense in that case. Nontheless I haven´t layed a hand on Broadwell or Skylake yet so I don´t really have a feel for these CPUs... but then again I don´t really have much CPUs other than Haswell E here. The only non Haswell E is my home server which runs an i5 4590 with H97.

I´m sure for gaming 4c/4th is just fine, actually I´m super happy with my 5960X here but it won´t be much of an option against Broadwell´s 10core monster next year in benchmarks. But that´s fine I render and convert also lots of videos, so more cores are always welcome at my side hehe.

 

What about an SR-2 and some X5690's?

[Najuno]

What about an SR-2 and some X5690's?

Not a bad plan if you just need the cores, but the lack of OC potential renders this CPU for my reasons worthless unfortunately. If I was going straight for CPU multi threaded benchmarks only I´d love to try it.

The problem with benchmarking is you need as many cores and threads as possible and those at highest clock speeds possible. Therefore the only option at this point is Haswell E and next year its successor Broadwell E. Of course it remains to be seen at what price point the 10 core CPU comes around and what OC potential it bears. My current 5960X, which is my second one this year (fried the first one) only goes benchmark stable up to 4.6 GHz. That being said it isn´t a bad sample, not at all but it´s just not good enough to break any records because it will limit the GPUs in 3D Mark too much and the physics score will be too low.

Now I know that sounds a bit odd, but please don´t forget I always try to be in the HoF of 3D at least Top20, of course within my bracket.

[Raudi_]

I doubt you will benefit a lot from going from Haswell to Skylake... at least not when it comes to multithreaded benchmarks such as 3D Mark´s Physics benchmark itself. Wait until next year and go for X99 and Broadwell E... hehe I might have a 5960X by then for selling .

For 3d benching there is like none

CPU benching only there is a massive gain

Course who needs better margeninly better IPC for 3D when the GPU does 95% of the work

[arnavvr]

Not a bad plan if you just need the cores, but the lack of OC potential renders this CPU for my reasons worthless unfortunately. If I was going straight for CPU multi threaded benchmarks only I´d love to try it.

The problem with benchmarking is you need as many cores and threads as possible and those at highest clock speeds possible. Therefore the only option at this point is Haswell E and next year its successor Broadwell E. Of course it remains to be seen at what price point the 10 core CPU comes around and what OC potential it bears. My current 5960X, which is my second one this year (fried the first one) only goes benchmark stable up to 4.6 GHz. That being said it isn´t a bad sample, not at all but it´s just not good enough to break any records because it will limit the GPUs in 3D Mark too much and the physics score will be too low.

Now I know that sounds a bit odd, but please don´t forget I always try to be in the HoF of 3D at least Top20, of course within my bracket.

 

The SR-2 can OC.

[Najuno]

The SR-2 can OC.

True but I´ve never seen any impressive results combined with GPUs in a 3D Mark score and that´s pretty much all I care about. That´s why I deemed it not really OCable or more specific really a good choice for benchmarking.

[xnoobftw]

Benchmark: Firestrike
CPU: i7 4770
GPU: Tri-X R9 290x
GPU Core: 1155
GPU Memory: 1580

Score: 11341
3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9473508?

 

Got better results from turning off raptr  

[MLG Doge]

Benchmark: FireStrike

CPU: i3-4150 @3.5GHz

GPU: HD7950 Vapor-X

GPU Core: 850MHz

GPU Memory: 1250MHz

Score: 5710

3DMark link: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9490234

PCPP link : http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/user/MLGdoge/saved/cNJRsY

[WezIax]

Just got a new gpu today. I'll be adding another one this Friday for more benching .

 

Benchmark: FireStrike

CPU: Two Xeon X5690 @ 4.7Ghz

GPU: Evga gtx 980 Ti Classy

GPU Core: 1522MHz

GPU Memory: 1853MHz

Score: 18102

3DMark link:http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6646313

[HE-MAN]

Benchmark: FireStrike

CPU: 6700k @ stock

GPU: Zotac gtx 980 Ti AMP  

GPU Core: 1452MHz

GPU Memory: 2003MHz

Score: 16079

3DMark link: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9509138

[King_Tuna]

Benchmark: 3DMark2001 Se Full test

CPU: Atom N270

GPU: i945GME

Core: 400 MHz

Mem: 266 MHz (533/2) (Shared)

Score: 2800 3DMarks

[Janne]

Got this one today, pretty boring. Observed core clock seems to be around 1440-1470 when playing witcher 3

 

Benchmark: Fire Strike Ultra
CPU: i7-4790k
GPU: Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti G1 Gaming
GPU Core: 1510 MHz
GPU Memory: 1978 MHz

Score: 4961
3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6691863

[Hunched]

Benchmark: Fire Strike

CPU: 4690k @ 4.5ghz
GPU: 970 G1
GPU Core: 1590mhz
GPU Memory: 8000mhz

Score: 11361
3DMark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6691201
PCPartPicker Link: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4DLTLk

 

Finally caved and flashed a custom BIOS to my card to fix everything Nvidia and Gigabyte did wrong, got an extra 45mhz on the core along with it.

 

Now out of everyone who has ran Fire Strike with a 4690k and 1x GTX 970, I'm #46 in the world. Yay!

[Purplehazeffc]

Benchmark:  Fire Strike

CPU: 4690k @ 4.8 Ghz  @ 1.275v

GPU: Gigabyte 970 G1

GPU Core: 1648 Mhz

GPU Memory: 2050 Mhz

Score: 11593

 

3D Mark Link: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6695868

 

Woo Hoo.  1, 2, & 3 top scores

 

Trying to get 11600 out of it. But just 1 more mhz on either GPU or Memory & crashes.

Going to try 4.9 Ghz on the CPU & see how that fairs when I get some more time.

I think it can handle some more voltage 

[Hunched]

 

Now out of everyone who has ran Fire Strike with a 4690k and 1x GTX 970, I'm #46 in the world. Yay!

 

 

Benchmark:  Fire Strike

CPU: 4690k @ 4.8 Ghz  @ 1.275v

GPU: Gigabyte 970 G1

Score: 11593

 

Woo Hoo.  1, 2, & 3 top scores

Lol thanks, very next post after mine is this  :lol:

 

But... "just 1 more mhz on either GPU or Memory & crashes."

There's no way you're not artifacting like crazy then, graphical issues always appear before outright crashing and if you're a mere 1mhz from complete instability, dropping it back 1mhz doesn't make it rock solid.

I mean I'm at 1590mhz, I could push it over 1610mhz and make it through Fire Strike, but not without weird shit happening on screen first. Probably wouldn't outright crash until like 1630mhz or higher.