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**Official 3D Mark 11 scores**

Haha I would love to buy another but the 2 I have are plenty :) I will have a play with overclocking after work. 1 SSD only and see how that goes. If need be, I will put my other drives on a network.
 
geeman1979 said:
Looking good gregster ;)
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Cheers bud and this one looks even better :)

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4578205

P20465
Graphics 24083
Physics 15786
Combined 12167

Kaapstad said:
What memory are you running. If you can tune it then its a good 24/7 freebee with a hex core and good for a few hundred more points in 3dmark11.
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Memory is clocked at 2433. It is https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-018-AR Which is sweet as. Well worth the money :)
 
Kaapstad said:
You will not be able to go much higher on the speed but 8 Pack may be able to help with the timings. I run mine at 2400mhz with 9-11-11-25 1T tRFC 96 and also very tight 2nds and 3rds which is a lot better than the XMP setup. For normal use it does not make much difference but in 3dmark11 and other benchmarks its a nice bonus.

Edit Thats a cracking score for 2 GPUs :D
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Cheers. I tried for the magic 5.0 but even with 1.550V it wouldn't have it. 4.825 seems to be the highest I can get without going too deep. I have gone back to 4.625 on 1.35V. My temps at 4.825 were never over 55C, which is a shame but I am very happy with the chip.

I stayed away from the XMP and put my own timings in. Maybe this is why I couldn't go higher but I am not ssuch a fan of XMP.
 
pgi947 said:
Checked to see if its removed your BF3 bottleneck?

For 5ghz did you just push the multiplier and vcore and nothing else? I found increasing power limits and all sorts of other stuff helped me get my speed up, I could probably push towards 5.3ghz but my insane amount of vdroop is stopping me.
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I am not 100% on X79 boards and it is very different to Sandy clocking. I will get it higher but will be swatting up more before I attempt any higher.
 
Kaapstad said:
Your using the 125 strap by the look of it. Lots of people say its better than the 100 strap for ocing. I find on mine 100 works better @5.0ghz.

When going for 5.0ghz it may help a bit to slacken the memory timings a bit. With mine it will do 5.0ghz easy with loose memory timmings and with very tight timings 4.9ghz easy but going for 5.0ghz with tight timings some days it does and some days not.
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I do have the memory set tight and yep I am on the 125 strap. This was the easiest way to OC for me.
 
Thanks James.

Those lighnings seriously are sweet. I had to flash my new one as the BIOS it comes with has a block on over volting, so I flashed it to the original LTG BIOS and I got artifacts all over the place :eek: I switched it to the standard BIOS and found out it needs to be flashed to a v3 style BIOS and all good now...Phew.
 
Tonester0011 said:
Nice scores Gregster. That puts you top top top :P
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Cheers :) I will leave mine where it is and not edit the top scores. I just wanted to know I could beat them all :p

*Rich* said:
Ok, so i tweaked my things a little, nothing extreme.

i7 3770K now @4.4
GTX 680 Sli 1200/1600

New results.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/4579288

3DMark 11 Score - 16717
Graphics Score - 21394
Physics Score - 10648
Combined Score - 9368


My old score is already on the board if you would kindly update it to this score.
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Very nice jumps in scores. Made a big difference getting that 3770K clocked up.
 
*Rich* said:
Thanks. I think i could have gone further, but i don't really need a huge overclock. This seems to be a good spot with good temps across the range.
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Yep. It is all about games and if they play well...Happy days

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pgi947 said:
Good news for Lightning owners on both camps from having a look around XS!!

GTX680 Lightning: I've seen some bench runs on water, 1420+ boost!!

R7970 Lightning: Also found a few screens showing a fully unlocked afterburner pushing 1.4v/1400mhz, hopeful the chap will share his wisdom with me :)
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MSI did done good :D

Kaapstad said:
You really should update the scores. If I was new to this thread I would want to know what 2 MSI lightnings could do to help my buying decisions.

My next build sometime next year will probably use water to a greater or lesser extent and again it helps a lot more if I can get the most up to date info from the tables.

Out of all my benchmarks in the tables my favorite and probably the most useful is the one for a single HD 5970. It comes last in the table for 2 GPUs and is never likely to do any better. It also shows that although its a very old card it still offers good performance compared to some of the modern single GPU cards. This could help someone who is thinking to upgrade or not.

Don't be modest Gregster we need the information in the charts.
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I started the thread and don't want it to look as though I started it for me to boast. It was nice to break 20K though (and beat Scotty :p)
 
whyscotty said:
Time to fix your sig :)

Once again very nice score and if I'm honest that score
will the there to be beaten for a long time me thinks :D

That is unless you decide to crank up that chip of yours
and do a 5Ghz run :p

On a more serious side has it improved FSX ?
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I will fix my sig today :) Also, a big thanks for your help on clocking to 5.0ghz. I now have a stable 24/7 5ghz CPU thanks to you :) Ran prime95 for an hour anyways.

I have had my computer in and out and back apart so much recently, to do another run involves me taking the monitor cables out and unless somebody beats my SLI score, that aint happening. If I leave the monitor cables in, it does lower the score.

I have not played FSX yet as all the tweaking and proper cable management is still on going. I have not played anything yet :( but I look forward to once all the settings/cables are perfect, I can play some games.

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Thanks again for your help in making the magic 5Ghz Neil.

Now if I get a bottleneck...Meh!!!
 
^^ Nice and I have watched Advent children so many times :) Tifa mmmmmmmmm Shame they are not doing any more :(

whyscotty said:
Your welcome,:)
don't know why i helped you now as I'll never match those scores :(

Bottle neck my ---:D
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lol You know when your EVbots arrive, you will smash my score up. I don't think putting my lightnings under water will make any difference as temps with the A/C are good. Somebody may find a way of upping the volts to 1.3. I read somewhere (can't remember where) that it is possible but this may have been wishfull thinking.
 
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I did look for you PGI as you helped me with my water cooling but I culdn't find anything you didn't already know about your LTG. Have you tried to email MSI and say "You are happy to void your warranty" or would you rather keep it in tact?
 
Kaapstad said:
What changes did you make to get it to 5.0ghz

Its very impressive at that vcore.
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Had to up the VCCSA from 1.12 to 1.2. Everything else was spot on or a tincy bit lower than the settings WhyScotty gave me.

Vcore 1.495
VTT 1.18
VCCSA 1.2
PLL 1.85

My mem is clocked to 2333 with 11 12 12 30 2 timings (pretty slack).
 
pgi947 said:
Try take it up to 2400mhz with those timings, perhaps drop the CR down to 1T. 2400mhz on strap:

102.9 BCLK
125 strap
18.66 memory multiplier/divider.

Im currently at (I think, I'll have to check) 11-13-11-30-1T @ 2400mhz. I Might give those voltage settings you listed a whirl on my 3820, all those listed for me are on auto.
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I will have a play with those settings to see if I can squeeze some more out of the memory. I did try tighter timings but no joy :(

Tonester0011 said:
I'm tempted to hop over to X79, looks more fun overclocking.
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It is fun but then again, you have your CPU @ 5.0 so no benefit IMO.

Kaapstad said:
As I said earlier your Vcore 1.495 is very impressive (I think it shows one of the benefits of using a proper watercooled loop)

I use
Vcore 1.55
VTT 1.10
VCCSA 1.10
PLL 1.80

Next time I build a system I think I will give watercooling a go. Fortunately 99.9% of the time I run @4.0ghz so the Vcore is a lot lower.



It is you should give it a go plus X79 will be with us for a few years yet.
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I ran prime95 for around an hour (few mins less maybe) on 5.0 and temps were never over 65c on any of the cores. No lock ups/crashes/BSODs so that was good enough for me. Seems to be a good chip overall and I look forward to reinstalling FSX and seeing the difference. I did fire up BF3 and still both GPU's wouldn't hit 99%... Scotty linked to a site (can't remember off hand what one) that said it is the drivers at fault and Nvidia acknowledge this. No probs though as it was smooth with very good fps.

Water cooling was something I wanted to do but was afraid of the "old water and electric" thing. Some great guys on here like PGI and WhyScotty made it easier with some great info/specs though :)
 
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