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

Uninstalled this damn benchmark:mad:
After overclocking my cpu to 4.6 the other day i ran it and got 4160 and a physics score of around 13050, great i thought, in-line with everyone else.
Ran it again yesterday morning only to get a score of 4200 overall and a physics score of 12768 at the same overclock.

strange:confused: higher GPU score and overall score, yet a much lower CPU score, so ran it a few times thinking it was just an inconsistency only to get the same results.

Was due a fresh install so did that, installed latest drivers for all.
Ran benchmark and my score was back to 4160 overall and physics score around the 13050 mark again.

Brilliant, i know it's silly to worry about such things on a benchmark especially when my games run just as good as they did but i do.
Ran it again moments ago to show a friend that's considering getting a haswell build and i'm having the same issue again.
It's eating away at me wondering what could be causing it.

Anyone got any ideas?
 
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http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1170041

3DMark Score; 7461.0
Graphics Score; 8313.0
Physics Score; 11717.0

- i7 4770k @ 4.3ghz (Corsair H80)
- AMD 7970 3GB Ref (Flashed with GHZ Bios) (Flashed with Ghz BIOS) at stock GHZ core (1050) / mem (1500) settings.

Graphics card is simply ref board with air cooling, no modification.

May decide to OC the 7970 and push the CPU (I have got it to 4.8ghz - but keeping it at 4.3ghz atm) once ive got everything in my new Silverstone FT02 case.
 
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Right... I decided to push things...

I decided to have a go and OC my 4770k as far as i could stable with acceptable temps, i managed to get to 4.9ghz.. Which shocked me on Haswell.. Must have gotten a good chip.

I also have a play with the GPU core and mem settings.

I do believe this is far as i'd be able to go, here are my Firestrike scores.

3DMark Score; 8020.0
Graphics Score; 8890.0
Physics Score; 13550.0

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1170828

As before;

- i7 4770K @ 4.9Ghz using a Corsair H80
- AMD 7970 3GB Ref GPU with Ref air cooler (Flashed with GHZ Bios) core (1,110) / mem (1,625) settings.

Pretty happy tbh, especially considering i have a ref 7970 which has been flashed with a Ghz BIOS and still has the ref cooler.
 
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Here are my results, everything is running stock for now, was only testing due to experiencing the odd artifact on a previous PC with Crysis 3 and current with WoT. Think I need to look at some OC'ing soon.

Stock Intel cooler within a stock TJ08B-E case.

1x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost @ stock 960/1250
Intel 4770K at stock.
Asus Gene VI.
8GB Patriot Black Mamba at 2400MHz.

I noticed the memory speed was stated wrong in 3D Mark though, it states 800MHz, but my memory is running at 1200Mhz (2400MHz memory).

3D Mark Score
6417.0
Graphics Score
7001.0
Physics Score
11149.0
Combined Score
2838.0

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1170885
 
Just an update on the problem i was having in regards to my low cpu score.

It's appears to be connected in how i run the benchmark, eg, if i click "launch benchmark" i receive an overall score of around 4210 and a cpu score of around 12750-12850, but, if i force the benchmark to "run in 64bit" my overall score lowers to around 4160 and my cpu scores goes up to 13050-13100.
In-line i believe with other scores for the same clock speed.

It's strange really, as when i first installed the benchmark after a fresh install of windows 8, along with all the latest drivers for gpu and chipset etc, i'd not get this problem, i'd just launch the benchmark and get scores in-line with others, but after a few runs, it's as if something changes even though i've not installed/ran anything different.

One thing i have noticed aswell is that when this happens, where as normally MSI afterburner's overlay isn't visible while running the benchmark, it suddenly is:confused: could be related i don't know.

Thought i'd share just incase others encounter the same issue.

David
 
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