New machine! What should I test on it?

drakioned · 7 May 2011 at 18:13

Hi,

So, finally put together my new box.

- 23" LG W2363D-PF 3D Ready Monitor
- MSI P67A-GD65 (B3) iP67 Socket 1155
- Gigabyte GeForce GTX 480 SUPER OC 1536MB GDDR5 SLI
- Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor
- Coolermaster Silent Pro Gold 1200W Power Supply
- Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Coolermaster HAF 912 Plus Case
- Keysonic KSK-8001UEL Black Full-Size USB Keyboard
- Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 Pro Extreme Performance CPU Cooler
- Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision Kit
- 1st gen Samsung SSD + 1TB WD Cavier Green 5400rpm drive

What should I try on it? I haven't had a performance PC for a couple of years, so the last time I tried anything like benchmarking, everyone was still using 3DMark06. What do people use for check everything works now? I heard a OCCT and a Heaven mentioned in the video card forums?

drakioned · 7 May 2011 at 18:48

Commander Keen? woah, that's a bit too modern, I was trying like Jumpman!

drakioned · 7 May 2011 at 23:31

Okay, so, 3D Mark 2011 registers a score of P7215... which, looking at the chart, is on the low side.

The breakdown is:
P9263 for graphics (against a target score of P9900)
P4176 for physics (against a target score of P6700) - seems the bigger problem
P4608 for combined (against a target score of P6400) - due to the physics?

OCCT throws up a few hundred errors in a 10 minute test? Does this mean I should consider RMAing?

3D Mark pushes the card to about 80C, whereas OCCT pushes it to over 90C.

drakioned · 8 May 2011 at 00:02

Stock, I'm not overclocking.

drakioned · 9 May 2011 at 09:13

On a more serious note, the OCCT errors, do they warrant a RMA or just keep them? I get a few hundreds after about 10 minutes... seems less than the few thousand that some of the others have complained about in the graphics card forums.