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Why does my Firestrike score suck? (Running Quadfire)

I doubt it. I can get 15500 with 2x 780 and a 4770k at 4.6ghz so even if it is I would imagine its not the main cause of your problem. I'm sure kaap will be along shortly to tell me I'm way off though :D
 
Kaap actually already told me that the 3770k should not bottleneck these cards in another thread.

However my friend with 2 x 290s is beating me with a haswell CPU running a lower clock speed.

I am a little concerned by the low 3DMark score?

Spec:

OCZ Gold 1000w
2 X Asus 7990
OCZ SSD 120
Team Group Elite 1600mhz RAM (10,10,10,24) - this ram was not expensive but I read RAM does nothing for performance?
Gigabyte Z77X-D3H
Windows 8.1
Latest Stable AMD Drivers

Here is a 3DMark result with a similar setup scoring a lot higher http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1044974

I guess he has a better mobo (will that matter much?).
 
This is what a 7990 quad fire setup scores overclocked, your scores both look there or thereabouts to me chaps, unless im missing something.

7990x2@1200/1700
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1439194?

3. 19763. GFX Score 34586. 7990. Water cooled cooled. Physics Score 16440 CPU 3930K @ 4.75 Water cooled - ToxicTBag - Link

This was pulled from Kaap's excellent firestrike extreme thread.
 
LtMatt said:
This is what a 7990 quad fire setup scores overclocked, your scores both look there or thereabouts to me chaps, unless im missing something.

7990x2@1200/1700
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1439194?

3. 19763. GFX Score 34586. 7990. Water cooled cooled. Physics Score 16440 CPU 3930K @ 4.75 Water cooled - ToxicTBag - Link

This was pulled from Kaap's excellent firestrike extreme thread.
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13610 I score the other score is 19763.

The graphics scores are closer...
 
Its your combined score, that's dragging your overall score downwards loads. Your GPU score is fine however (sorta :D) so the problem lies with your CPU.

Go back to stock and try again. The CPU score isn't too far off where it should be mind (physics score) so i duuno if its the CPU clock or the GPU clocks giving you a shoddy combined.

Edit: Here, my FS with the 3770k @4.6Ghz. http://www.3dmark.com/fs/10608
Knock your whole setup down to stock :) Gives you a comparison so you can start from the beginning if needed.
 
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Tonester0011 said:
Its your combined score, that's dragging your overall score downwards loads. Your GPU score is fine however (sorta :D) so the problem lies with your CPU.

Go back to stock and try again. The CPU score isn't too far off where it should be mind (physics score)
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Go back to stock on my CPU?

It's stable at this clock.
 
The ram would be the reason for only getting 11981 physics, better ram (higher rated speed, lower timings etc) will raise that up no probs so your Physics score (CPU overclock is fine!) it wouldn't be the reason behind 3k+ loss in combined.

What score do you get with the cards @stock for comparison sake? Its all a bit meh really, because your GPU score is around about give or take where it should be :) This is only really for getting on the scoreboards aint it :p
 
Ok so it turns out the combined test hates 4 quadfire, I get double the frames with CF or with it off completely...

If only there was a way to force crossfire, trifire or disabled for this portion of the benchmark.

I get like 4604 now on combined.
 
LtMatt said:
This is what a 7990 quad fire setup scores overclocked, your scores both look there or thereabouts to me chaps, unless im missing something.

7990x2@1200/1700
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1439194?

3. 19763. GFX Score 34586. 7990. Water cooled cooled. Physics Score 16440 CPU 3930K @ 4.75 Water cooled - ToxicTBag - Link

This was pulled from Kaap's excellent firestrike extreme thread.
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Actually it was from Gregs Excellent Firestrike thread.:D

As LtMatt says your score is ok, if you can get your vram up to 1700mhz this should give a nice bump to the score.

What is effecting the overall score is the physics on the CPU, for normal gaming this is nothing to worry about.

If you compare the score I got for a pair of GTX 690s on graphics I only managed about 27000 even though my overal score is higher because of the 3960X CPU I was using.
 
Arr0way said:
I don't seem to be getting a very high score in Firestrike.

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/1749565?

Is this down to my CPU?

Thanks :)
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I have just run this on my GTX 690s with a big overclock for them 1210/1800 (boosting to 1254)

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1230511

If you check the graphics score I am still nearly 4000 behind your 7990s.

If you really want to check the graphics power of your cards, you should give the Heaven 4 bench a go. This will really show what your cards can do and is more relevant to games than some of the other benches.

Edit just checked and my combined score goes down when I run 4 GPUs too, when I run a couple of 290Xs my combined score is well over 8000
 
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Kaapstad said:
I have just run this on my GTX 690s with a big overclock for them 1210/1800 (boosting to 1254)

http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1230511

If you check the graphics score I am still nearly 4000 behind your 7990s.

If you really want to check the graphics power of your cards, you should give the Heaven 4 bench a go. This will really show what your cards can do and is more relevant to games than some of the other benches.

Edit just checked and my combined score goes down when I run 4 GPUs too, when I run a couple of 290Xs my combined score is well over 8000
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Cheers Kaapstad,

I fixed it, now I'm getting 19173: http://www.3dmark.com/fs/1232960

Bumping the memory helps a lot, but I can't get the voltage unlocked for the RAM - I did it on my 7970's but I can't remember how.

FYI Afterburner was causing my issues - when it was running i got 10fps less on combined!!!??

Closed it ran 3DMark and performance increased (any overclocking was done via CCC). Weird huh ?
 
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