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3dmark guide/tweaks?

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Anyone know of the best way to set up a pc to get the most out of it for benchmarking, advanced gfx settings etc?

What is your ritual before a benchmark?
 
yeah im fine for gaming mate thats not an issue but when i do a benchmark i would like to squeze every last point out of it like most people would.

Was only wondering what other people do to get every last point out of there system
 
evulboo said:
yeah im fine for gaming mate thats not an issue but when i do a benchmark i would like to squeze every last point out of it like most people would.

Was only wondering what other people do to get every last point out of there system
Again, why? What does it achieve?
 
BoomAM said:
Again, why? What does it achieve?


Like Jokester said its a hobby, + self satifaciton of learning more about my computer and knowing its limits, its always nice to try beat your previous score.
 
BoomAM said:
Pointless imo.
Carry on though. :p

WTF why are you on this forum. do you just troll here for some sort of power trip to see how many posts you can do without trying to answer a persons question..
I would say from now on refrain from clicking the post button unless you can input /shakes head

And for evulboo i know what your after its good hooby to tweak :P

Maybe some kind people will post their uber know how. ie gcard setting etc

good luck
 
mirlock said:
WTF why are you on this forum. do you just troll here for some sort of power trip to see how many posts you can do without trying to answer a persons question..
I would say from now on refrain from clicking the post button unless you can input /shakes head

And for evulboo i know what your after its good hooby to tweak :P

Maybe some kind people will post their uber know how. ie gcard setting etc

good luck

agreed, i love benching to squeeze that last drop of performance out of her, i bench regular just to check my system health if nothing else

its a hobby in its self
 
Back to the OP ;)

I'm not a great "performance geek" yet because I'm still waiting for the right moment to pounce on a new graphics card :p But I guess I'd do these to ensure best performance:

overclock the processor (duh! :p)

try and get the ram:fsb ratio as close as possible, 1:1 is best

download "mike linns startup control panel" and run bare minimum on startup

google for "{graphics card name} tweaks" or something just incase there's anything specific to your card. or maybe nvidia/ati driver tweaks.

try different drivers, some might offer slightly better performance

check out all driver options and change anything that might affect performance

overclock the graphics card using nTune for nVidia or whatever's best for ATI


...that's pretty much all I can think of!
 
mirlock said:
WTF why are you on this forum. do you just troll here for some sort of power trip to see how many posts you can do without trying to answer a persons question..
I would say from now on refrain from clicking the post button unless you can input /shakes head

And for evulboo i know what your after its good hooby to tweak :P

Maybe some kind people will post their uber know how. ie gcard setting etc

good luck
Its ironic, because your post there was about as useful as mine supposidly was. ;)
I question it because i personally dont see the point in benchmarking in synthetic applications anymore. If it was benchmarking in a game engine, then yes. But synthetic applications are not an indication of performance im afraid.
Oh, and look up trolling please. As you clearly dont know what it is.

Anyway, back to topic.
Try benchmarking in a game that you use, if you want it to be an indication of your systems performance in a real life scenario, then that would be a better indication than a fabricated graphics engine. :)
 
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