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Well that doesn't make sense...

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I downloaded 3DMark05 and ran it and got an end score of 8893. What do you guys think of this score? Is it decent? About right for my rig? (See sig)

Anyway, a day or two later I decided to do it again but with all my graphics settings on low. This time however I got a much lower score.. can't remember what it was exactly but it was something like 8650.

Now obviously I know benchmark scores will vary a little but THAT much, AND I'd lowered all the settings lots.. :eek: :confused:
 
That's odd, I think it's definitely low. My scores are below, do you have a compare URL so we can see stuff like CPU score and FPS rates for specific tests?
 
Post a picture up of your CCC settings. :)

The best settings for benching are not ones you'd want to have for gaming as it just makes things look a bit rubbish.
 
Not sure how to give a link to my result..

This work? http://service.futuremark.com/orb/projectdetails.jsp?projectType=12&projectId=1983771

My CCC settings:

Anti-Aliasing - Let the application decide
Anisotropic Filtering - Let the application decide
CATALYST A.I - Advanced
Mipmap Detail Level - High Quality
Wait for vertical refresh - Always off
Adaptive Anti-Aliasing - Not Enabled

Those were the settings when I got the 8893 score. When I got the much lower score I had either disabled or put the settings down to their lowest.
 
Nah, that link doesn't work. :( Look for where it says "compare URL" if possible.

As for those settings, they look fine to me except most people set the mipmap detail level setting to the lowest for benchmarking and put it back up for gaming.
 
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That's a much better score, mate. :) You're scoring pretty much exactly the same as me (compare URLs in sig) when I have my CPU and GPU overclocked. :D

Time to get clocking away and hit 10k, though 11k should be within reach seeing as you're getting 9k at stock. ;)
 
Exsomnis said:
That's a much better score, mate. :) You're scoring pretty much exactly the same as me (compare URLs in sig) when I have my CPU and GPU overclocked. :D

Time to get clocking away and hit 10k, though 11k should be within reach seeing as you're getting 9k at stock. ;)
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:) Cheers mate.

I reckon you're right, but I gotta ease myself in to this overclocking business.... :D

Will I need new fans and cooling equipment to overclock as much to be seeing any differences in speed?
 
I used to be the same, taking this processor from a 3400+ to around 3700+ speeds was my first real overclock, and I was a real wuss about it at first. Once I got over being nervous about it though, I just jumped right in and started fiddling with this and that to see what would happen.

I've discovered that as long as you're careful and keep an eye on temperatures, you can't really screw it up, and as for the question of cooling etc. it's not required for little overclocks (I'm still using totally stock cooling) but would be needed if you really want to push your hardware.

My goal is 10,000 in 3D Mark '05, but my hardware (aside from my graphics card) is all pretty poor quallity, and I've reached the limits on what I can do with stock cooling already (with 1090 points to go.) Once I fit a Freezer64 and VF900 though, should be easy sailing up to and beyond 10,000, or so I hope. :)

Luckily for you, you've already started out with some fantastic quality gear.
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scores are fine for that card at stock settings.

Mine is around 9.3k with my cpu @ 2.4ghz.

Lowering the settings won't do much as your cpu is already the bottleneck and all you are doing is making it even more of a bottleneck.
 
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