**Official 3DMark 'Fire Strike' Leaderboard**

[Gregster]

You forgot mine Greg.

Oops and added

 

[Gregster]

Cheers!

Afterburner & the Classified voltage tool.The cards on air btw.

Pfffft

 

[Gregster]

But they're 2-3 times the price and 10% faster than my 290 lol

This thread isn't about price. It is about grunt. Leave the prices out please

 

[Gregster]

True. I wanna see some 780ti grunt.

Me too. The Classy Ti scores I have seen look to smash everything up.

 

[Gregster]

What are the safe voltages on these 780's? And are people going to more than 106% on afterburner?

It is all card dependant. If you are water cooled, 1.35V should be no problem but if you are on air with a bog standard reference card, I wouldn't want to use any more voltage than the default.

The 106% really comes into effect when you start to push the cards. With custom BIOS's, you can have some good voltages with a good TDP limit.

 

[Gregster]

When you pop a custom BIOS on, it gets rid of the boost and allows voltages, so should be pretty much what you are used to

 

[Gregster]

Whos doing the custom BIOS'? LTMatt sorted out my 7950

A nice guy called Skyn3t

Have a read up and better to get acquainted with it prior to going under water and that way, you will understand more of what you are doing

Read my "How to over volt a Titan or 780" link at the bottom of my sig. It is a little outdated but when you do it, I will point you in the right direction.

 

[Gregster]

Well like before, I think firestrike runs at native res, my native res is not 1080. So maybe a little guidance in the first post should say explicitly 1080p.

My apologies for this thread being misleading and I will add that the test should be done at 1080P. I have both a 1440P monitor and a 1080P monitor and only ever noticed it runs at 1080P but better to have clarification

 

[Gregster]

All good and glad you clarified it does run at 1080P.

 

[Gregster]

All scores updated (I think). It was hard to find them amongst all the petty squabbling.

That awkward moment a £300 gpu beats a £800 gpu.

Spoiler

It was £820 (ish) and a great score for a 290.

Well done Ranger and I for one love benching and giving it the max. Who cares about 24/7 clocks in a benching thread?

@ Matt, that is the second time your result has come back with CPU information missing... Something up with your system? (not seen that before).

 

[Gregster]

Thanks Gregster

I am very impressed in fairness. My score was the max possible for my card. I did a couple more runs but fail city. For a 290, that is outstanding. Good work

 

[Gregster]

I think this is the max for my card, maybe another 5-20mhz on the core and a TINY BIT more on the RAM.

But i wont bother with that unless someone beats me

And again; thanks!

You are safe from me. I shan't be giving this Titan a kicking like I did my other one but who knows what the future holds

 

[Gregster]

290s are very underestimated, but they need waterblocks to fly. Just like 7970s

It is the VRM's on the Titans that are pants. Very poor and don't like high voltages. I hurt my 680's with volts and they lapped it up but Titans are big girls blouses

If i still had my 3930k and chiller i'd probably shell out for 3 or 4 290s for suicide runs just to beat your score. Lost interest in benching (a while ago)

lol

I have lost interest also. I have a few scores to use on the bot but just can't be bothered. Enjoying Truck Simulator 2 too much me thinks

 

[Gregster]

I've not made an entry on HWBot in nearly 200 days
Could easily get my #1 position back if i cared enough, just nice being back on ambient cooling though

Also being on ambient cooling i'm a little wary in doing big overclocks, my temps always seem so god damn high!!



I've sold nearly everything i had, when i say i've lost interest in benching i mean it
My rig pretty much runs stock except the overclock on the CPU (tiny)

I hear that. My Titan on air is hitting 75C when gaming but with water, it never went over 50c One more day at work and I will put my water block on next week

 

[Gregster]

I think something is up with 3dmark as it reports my cards as HIS when they're VTX. THe only other thing i can think of is im doing a diagnostic startup when i bench. That is loading basic devices and services only. I make sure futuremark system info starts though so i can validate the score when i restart my pc.

Sounds about right. I had no questions about your scores and was just making sure everything was ok your end

 

[Gregster]

Got my blocks just waiting for my cards...

What cards did you go for in the end?

 

[Gregster]

Man you guys have kept me busy the last few days.... Anyone would think you have all been off for a few days pffffft

 

[Gregster]

Added Kaktus and nice score... Tough crowd to beat to get into the top 10

Matt, don't take this the wrong way but 14 points? Seriously....

 

[Gregster]

14 points is 14 points Greg. I'm very proud of my score at stock and am not far off heavily clocked 780's and titans. Once i grow a pair ill start overclocking.

If you was vying for the top 10 places, fair play but you are miles off the next position. I will add it though, as it makes no odds to me

 

[Gregster]

I was in top 10 for a few weeks. Bah humbug .

Will re run when cards are under water.

Nearly there yet or waiting for deliveries?