New 3DMark03 WR with 3-Way SLI: 103888

[Sampsa]

After one week testing and benching my homemade 3-Way SLI setup I managed to push it to 103888 points in 3DMark03

http://plaza.fi/s/f/editor/images/3sli_02.jpg

http://plaza.fi/s/f/editor/images/3sli_06.jpg

CPU cooled with my rotary cascade (made by cold_ice) and Ultras cooled with Swiftech Stealth watercooling (provided by Finnish computer shop Jimm's PC-Store)

http://plaza.fi/s/f/editor/images/3sli_07.jpg

http://plaza.fi/s/f/editor/images/3sli_08.jpg

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 @ 4706 MHz
EVGA, MSI & Leadtek GeForce 8800 Ultra @ 720/1760/1180 MHz
EVGA nForce680i SLI
2 x Kingston KHX6400D2ULK2/2G @ 3-3-3-3 1T
Silverstone 1200W PSU
Windows Vista 32-bit
ForceWare 169.25 WHQL

http://plaza.fi/s/f/editor/images/3sli_3dmark03_103888.png

I can't publish the score in ORB (atleast yet..) since 3Dmark03 doesn't detect the QX6850 CPU. I just contacted them about this issue.

(Thanks to Intel, EVGA, MSI, Leadtek, Kingston, Jimm's PC-Store and Elektroni.fi)

[Mauri Antero]

Keep on Rocking Sampsa

[Soakki]

Pretty nice!

[Fr3ak]

Congrats on the score ! :toast :toast: :toast:

hehe I see a lot of power adapters there :)

[marru]

wow, nice results

Could you tell me please if there is enough room to phase cool all 3 graphic cards? It looks pretty cramped from here for a gpu evap between the cards.

[nachthymnen]

Great score as always!:clap:
Also I love the pictures of your setup:)
Congratz on the WR!:up:

[Kain XS]

Thats like ghetto 3-Way SLI bridge.
Which mobo is it?

[eva2000]

woah congrats... yay for home made SLI bridges :)

curious would crossfire bridges work ??? :)

[Lightman]

Congrats Sampsa!


With a 780i mobo and 45nm you would do much better :D

No worries though, New Year is soon and with it new mobos will come :)

[Paxi]

Congrats to the WR!
Give us a new 06 WR also pls :D

[Sampsa]

I'll run the test tomorrow again with E6750 or E6850 and hopefully it will recognize the CPU, or it might be Vista issue.

[VictorWang]

with vga under cold, 03 might break 12k :D

[Fr3ak]

I hope you mean 120k :)

[kiwi]

Only vista supports 3-way SLI?


with vga under cold, 03 might break 12k :D


How about a single person benches LN2 with 3 GPU and 1 cpu container, you need like 6 hands :D

[Fr3ak]

Or good containers ;)

So far triple-SLI only works with Vista, yes. Chances are, that it will remain that way.

[2fink]

only one 120 radiator for three cards?

[Sneil]

3d06?:)

[afireinside]

How about a single person benches LN2 with 3 GPU and 1 cpu container, you need like 6 hands :D

Nah... It's easy. Only requirement is that you need to be named Vince ;)

[Zeus]

only one 120 radiator for three cards?

I was thinking the very same thing, lol.

Great job Sampsa! :toast:

A 780i board with a good Yorkfield and three of those ultra' s will rock!

[EXPANDER]

3DMARK2006 low Bad Score. 2003 Good score:up:

[JamesBong420]

from my experience one 120 is as good as air, if not very little better. but 3 ultras on 1x120? temps please?:rolleyes: :cool: :p:

[G H Z]

WR with the home-brewed Tri-SLI, nice one Sampsa :toast:

/wonders when Vince is gonna show up ;)

[m0da]

that rad really looks just like another fan. switch it and up those clocks!
great performance you're getting though. keep it up:)

[Timbosan]

thats a lot of ultras, nice score, especially when you consider the vga cooling :up: congratulations on the 03 WR

[oanvoanc]

hehe, nice score.

isnt it difficult to adjust 3x resistance just for graphics? :D

[lukas69]

impressive score 3Dmark 03
great result
:shocked:

[metro.cl]

Congrats Sampsa nice to see you back.

I just wonder why we havent seen many benching this platform or all the 3D benchs.

[FUGGER]

Beep Beep!

Some Vapochill action with the 780i. Now modded and dangerous.

My scores wont publish a well on 03, cpu not recognized.

Grats :toast:

[Sampsa]

Thanks everyone, I wonder if this helps for CPU not being recognized:

http://www.futuremark.com/news/51909_hotfix_for_3dmark060503_and_pcmark05_availab le/

[Sampsa]

... and yes I know.. the watercooling solution for three Ultras is far away from optimal. I just got the Stealth-blocks, used some parts I had in my office and got them up and running. Too bad it is not so cold and no snow/ice here in Finland where I live so I couldn't take an advantage of it. Rivatuner reports GPU temperature 54 Celcius and the reservoir feels warm. I do have couple of aces in my sleeve reserved for the gfx cooling so stay tuned ;)

[FUGGER]

Your chip does good vs the York. Ill fire up the AC and catch you in clocks.

Hope you dont mind some compare scores. :)

[Sampsa]

Fugger, don't mind at all... keep em coming ;)

[saaya]

lol charles is boarding the thread HARRR HARRR :D

nice results both of you! :toast:

[Garrett]

OMG :slobber:
That's unbelievable... even higher score (in numbers) than 01 lol...
Keep hunting for even higher scores Fugger and Sampsa :up: awesome work there :up:

[FUGGER]

Opening it up more and pulling away.

[massman]

Looking good, Fugger :D

[revogamer]

i wanna see them all on ln2 or Dry Ice! awesome scores nonetheless

[sacha35]

Outstanding scores Guys, but where is this all going to end, at the end of 2008 are we going to start seeing 6-8 video cards on our systems :D

[FUGGER]

Still walking it up more, easy to chart if I keep it at 5Ghz.

[massman]

bench is scaling pretty good with gpu overclock :)

[Solarfall]

kick arse scores Sampsa & FUGGER keep em coming guys :toast: :up:

[Fr3ak]

Impressive Fugger! :)

Thats the good thing about 03, the CPU is not that important once it's fast enough.It scales very good with higher GPU clocks :D

With a 100% sub zero setup 03 should be flying :)

[Zeus]

Fugger is on a roll!

Geez, your surpassing the best 01 score now. :eek:

Do you think 110K on the cards?

[Garrett]

Fugger is on a roll!

Geez, your surpassing the best 01 score now. :eek:

Do you think 110K on the cards?

A matter of minutes if you ask me :D

[Sampsa]

Thanks everyone, I wonder if this helps for CPU not being recognized:

http://www.futuremark.com/news/51909_hotfix_for_3dmark060503_and_pcmark05_availab le/

Doesn't help.. so I guess 3-Way SLI scores will never be offical in ORB since you can't publish a score without CPU being recognized.

[Zytek_Fan]

Still walking it up more, easy to chart if I keep it at 5Ghz.

How's the 780i doing running with the QX9770?

[Sneil]

Why does it cay sli disabled in gpu-z?

[mascaras]

congrtas on WR Sampsa !! :up:

[Sampsa]

Why does it cay sli disabled in gpu-z?

SLI = 2 graphic cards. GPU-Z doesn't support 3-Way SLI.. yet.

[George_o/c]

:eek: :shocked: Very nice scores guys, looks like we 're going to see some 110k runs really soon :eek: :D
I don't wanna even think what will happen with a yorkie @ 5.6 - 5.7 (or more probably, depends :p:) GHz, and modded Ultras @ 3-Way SLi, all of 'em on LN2 .......... :eek:

Keep' em coming guys ;) :up:

[Oliver]

Looks really good Sampsa and Fugger.

Keep pushing it.

[REVHEAD]

Why do it with 03 or are you worried 06 will crash your system? To me that would be the only reason to run outdated benchmarking software.

Can we see some 06 benches with the same specs please.

[FUGGER]

I posted 06 in another thread, this is 03 thread.

Ill work on 06 more, Vista kills system cpu scores compared to XP.

[Dawgdoc]

Wow nice job guys :)

[LardArse]

congrats, 'old tech' but new drivers power :D

[Turrican]

great result :toast:

[Zeus]

Why do it with 03 or are you worried 06 will crash your system? :rofl:

Nice joke.

With such GPU power, CPU is becoming a bottleneck in 06, especially if the board does not allow you to run a Yorkfield like the 680i in Sampsa's case.

Btw 03 is even harder on your system than 06 or at least equal from my experience.

[Sampsa]

There are no and won't be any FM approved WHQL drivers for Vista so these scores will never be offical in ORB :)

[Phil The Greek]

There are no and won't be any FM approved WHQL drivers for Vista so these scores will never be offical in ORB :)
But 2 days ago Nvidia released 169.25 WHQL for Vista.Am I geting something wrong here?

[dinos22]

probably not FM approved Phil

[over@locker886]

awesome scores, congrats Sampsa and Fugger!

[Phil The Greek]

probably not FM approved Phil

OK I see...
By the way I tried triple SLI too with my Striker and 3X 8800GTX's.
3DMark 03 had incredible benefits from it.I got about 85000Marks with an E6700@3870 and vga's on air @640/1000:D
The others 3DMarks didn't i:D impress me.

[kithylin]

meh, 3dmark 2003 is very *yawn*, it doesn't even fully utilize SLI for pete's sake!
no one cares if vista restricts your cpu or anything, we'll be using vista and dx10 by the end of 2008 for everything. nice that you got a high score with an *Easy* old test though, where's the thread for 2006 under vista?

are you sure that's a 8800 ultra in the center? it looks like a 8800gtx to me. all the ultras have that "hump" in the middle when i look at em for sale online.

[n3wbi3]

meh, 3dmark 2003 is very *yawn*, it doesn't even fully utilize SLI for pete's sake!
no one cares if vista restricts your cpu or anything, we'll be using vista and dx10 by the end of 2008 for everything. nice that you got a high score with an *Easy* old test though, where's the thread for 2006 under vista?

are you sure that's a 8800 ultra in the center? it looks like a 8800gtx to me. all the ultras have that "hump" in the middle when i look at em for sale online.

Before u start shooting ur mouth off, plz read the thread from start to finish.
All 3 are ultras, he didnt have the original fan for the middle card, so he stuck a gtx stock fan on it.

Oh yea well done keep up the good work :up:

PS: u made it to theinquirer

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/24/sli-threesome-tops-orb

:lol:

[maverik-sg1]

In fairness Tri SLI will dominate the orb but only by the people that can:

A) Afford it

b) Have it provided to show it off

As far as games and everyday PC users who overclock go - it's bad enough to think that you really need two GPU's let alone 3 to run a game.

Most overclockers will bench what they have and this is just another Elitist mechanism to help GPU manufacturers remain top of the performance league.

Taking nothing away from teh scores achieved so far - especially as I know how good you guys are at what you do and have nothing but respect for your achievements.

I just feel (probably like every other person) that AMD and Nvidia are alienating 99% of their customer base by even persuing this multi GPU route to market.

I recall the good old days when two cards was enough and when I was TOP6 HOF with less cooling than most - scores achieved on my everyday gaming system tweaked for benchmark runs - I call that the 'OC for fun' era.

Tri SLI is beyond my reach, in fact SLI (due to a really poor overclocking chipset) is IMHO a complete and total waste of money, time and effort - only golden sample mobo's (that is to say it's a real gamble what you get with your money) are worth some of the money that is asked.

So for the ones who can afford it to keep the HOF status this is the ultimate to bench on. For those trying to get the most they can from an uber gaming machine, this is beyond the mortals.

Having said all that if AMD can sort out proper crossfire drivers then intel chipset based overclockers still have a chance at glory at a reasonable price with a system priced for enthusiasts.

Great results guys, I look forward to seeing the competition between the tri enabled guys at the top.

[afireinside]

Awesome score Fugger :eek:


Why does it cay sli disabled in gpu-z?

Vista issue. Says my crossfire is disabled as well.

[Zytek_Fan]

Before u start shooting ur mouth off, plz read the thread from start to finish.
All 3 are ultras, he didnt have the original fan for the middle card, so he stuck a gtx stock fan on it.

Oh yea well done keep up the good work :up:

PS: u made it to theinquirer

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/24/sli-threesome-tops-orb

:lol:

There are lurkers from TheInq in our midst :sofa:

[JANJWJMC]

The force is strong on you 3 way sli :yepp:

If i saw the new pics from 3dmark 08 : http://www.techpowerup.com/index.php?47838

You Will need 6 way sli

[Dynasty]

nice tri-sli scores.......
too bad no one has run there 8800 ultras in tri-sli with 3 gpu pots
going for some dice/ln2 action......maybe a few guys will do it soon......:D

four pots running at once should be an blast too see.....;)

P.S: Keep pushing it.................:D

[dinos22]

ROFL keep pushing it hahaha

man 4xpots on LN2 that's crazy

you'd need 2xguys for that hehehe

[SoF]

all thoose 3 way sli results make me wet :D really great work here Sampsa & FUGGER !!!
That's what we wanna see here on XS and whoever says something about costs or sense....go to averagesystems.org cry-babies :p: :D

[maverik-sg1]

all thoose 3 way sli results make me wet :D really great work here Sampsa & FUGGER !!!
That's what we wanna see here on XS and whoever says something about costs or sense....go to averagesystems.org cry-babies :p: :D

That's a good point - this is xtereme in every sense :up:

[n3wbi3]

all thoose 3 way sli results make me wet :D really great work here Sampsa & FUGGER !!!
That's what we wanna see here on XS and whoever says something about costs or sense....go to averagesystems.org cry-babies :p: :D


call of the week :rofl: :up:

[Dynasty]

In fairness Tri SLI will dominate the orb but only by the people that can:



Not really, TOP 3D 05 will remain ATI for time being...
it has always been ATI's 3D mk.....;)