75% off 3DMark Vantage / 50% off 3DMark 11 on Steam

[chaparral]

Just a heads up to let you guys know steam doing discounts on 3DMark

75% off 3DMark Vantage http://store.steampowered.com/app/205250/
50% off 3DMark 11 http://store.steampowered.com/app/205270/

 

[smogsy]

are these worth it any more? benchmark wise

 

[Tweaker]

Will there be a new version of 3Dmark soon, is it worth buying?

 

[Yaayuh!]

People buy these?

 

[chaparral]

are these worth it any more? benchmark wise

is it worth buying?

Only yourselfs can answer that question

There only worth it if your a kind of person that loves benchmarking there GPU cards a lot..

 

[pgi947]

it is worth buying yes, especially when tweaking cpu and memory as you can just set direct loop of physics tests etc...

 

[smogsy]

to answer the new one coming soon
http://www.3dmark.com/

new one is coming

 

[Gregster]

Do you need to have steam running when you have these on Steam?

 

[chaparral]

Well i Just bought both of them...
as am always playing around running all the versions of 3DMark when I do upgrades to my systems to compare the scores to what it was before the upgrade....

 

[pgi947]

Do you need to have steam running when you have these on Steam?

Probably not, odds are you can run the .exe directly from the steamapps folder.

I'll install from steam (just purchased 11 and vantage so I don't loose the keys!) shortly and let you know.

 

[Gregster]

Cheers Paul. I will purchase also if I don't need steam running. Nothing worse than going for best bench scores and having bloody steam in the background stopping me getting another 5 points

 

[Kasc]

I could never justify spending money on something that tests how good my PC is, why wouldn't you spend that money on games instead and find out yourself?

 

[chaparral]

I could never justify spending money on something that tests how good my PC is, why wouldn't you spend that money on games instead and find out yourself?

I think your in the wrong part of the forum...

This part of the forum should be more suitable to you http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=23

 

[Cods-Nostril]

I could never justify spending money on something that tests how good my PC is, why wouldn't you spend that money on games instead and find out yourself?

we use games for enjoyment yeah.. and some peeps get enjoyment from these too so don't see the problem.

 

[smogsy]

get 11 or vantage

im guessing 11 is more futureproof of a test as it use dx11

 

[chaparral]

Do you need to have steam running when you have these on Steam?

Yes

I closed steam and tried starting 3DMark 11 by clicking on the 3DMarkLauncher and it came up with this

 

[Tonester0011]

I got 3D11 for free back when they offered the code with a new case.
Just bought Vantage, £3.74...might as well.

I have Steam running whenever i bench anyway, doesn't bother me.

 

[Kaapstad]

I could never justify spending money on something that tests how good my PC is, why wouldn't you spend that money on games instead and find out yourself?

If you don't know how well your PC is working by using a benchmark or two you may not be getting the best out of your games.

 

[pgi947]

Cheers Paul. I will purchase also if I don't need steam running. Nothing worse than going for best bench scores and having bloody steam in the background stopping me getting another 5 points

Got the same as chaparral, steam has to be running unfortunately, it doesn't even show you the key to use in a non-steam version

 

[chaparral]

it doesn't even show you the key to use in a non-steam version

It shows an upgrade key if you launch 3Dmark 11 and then click on the Help tab

But I don't know if this key would work in the normal downloaded versions of 3Dmark 11..