My 2200+ Score

[Svenn]

http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=4192184
That's all I can pull out of my system... I've been trying all sorts of things but the cpu and gpu seem to be at about max with my water cooling setup. I haven't tried any dets but 30.30 and 30.82 so I'll try that... I was really hoping for a 13k score.

[Svenn]

Why is my nature score so low? Everyone else with the same setup and in my range has 70+ FPS and I get around 50.

[MrIcee]

A couple of things come to mind my friend:

WinXP cripples an AMD system in 3DMark...a partition with Win2000, SP2, 4.37 4 in 1's and the 29.40 drivers is the ticket towards 13,000. I'm scoring 13,6xx @ 1599Mhz and 13,995@ 1695Mhz because of high FSB at those speeds(199Mhz), maxed timings and high videocard overclocks in combination with the above Win2000 setup.

The 30.xx series drivers suck for 3DMark benching. The fastest currently are the 29.40's.

The Dragon tests and Nature rely heavily on the overclock of the videocard...the higher the core the higher those benches scale at any given total CPU speed. That is not the case with the Car and Lobby games..where a similar high card clock can actually REDUCE your score...its best to back off 4-5 Mhz on the card core and mem clocks to attain highest scores in those games.

Randi:D

[shadco]

Svenn

There should be alot more there even using XP

Here is my 4400

http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=4157876

The card was clocked 307/702

Shad

[JCviggen]

Originally posted by MrIcee


... That is not the case with the Car and Lobby games..where a similar high card clock can actually REDUCE your score...its best to back off 4-5 Mhz on the card core and mem clocks to attain highest scores in those games.

Randi:D



Ya know, car low likes GPU big time... I ran that at 398 .... car high I ran at ... 344 for best results... weird stuff

[sysfailur]

Mmmm those drivers must be REALLY shatty. Check out my 3rd test on the KX7333R. (Just installed it today).

I went from this: http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=4225671
to this: http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=4225871
and now this: http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=4225994

Heheh close to a 900 point increase from my first bench. Gonna try for a higher fsb... but dunno, my ram starts to like higher volts anywhere 190-195+ so I'll need to do the mem volt mod.

And for reference my best 8k3a+ aircooled was this: http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=4185071

and the exact same setup but w/ the kx7 is this: http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=4225994

190point odd gain just from diff. brands. Lovely! Now let's see if i can hit 190 maybe 195. BB w/ results.

[Svenn]

Question about the drivers.
Are the 30.30 or 30.82s better quality than the 29.42s? Or are there any advantages to them? I'm actually not worried as much about pumping my 3dmark score as I am about quality.