3DMARK 2K1 low clock challenge II

[Deanzo]

Hehe, well this made 1200 really, really easy.

[stummerwinter]

Got a first score...

Tweaks: D3D, LOD set for each test, my run order

88863

[Vivi]

stummer i believe the bug driver is not allowed since you have to upload to orb, dont know if they accept it tho!

Cool, NICE scores guys

Dean, awesome stuff

[G.Foyle]

Learning to bench VGAs, I got this on stock GTX280:



Taking it under dice tomorrow, I hope I'll learn something from you 3dm01 gurus

[BenchZowner]

xoqolatl, don't waste your dry ice.
You won't be able to reach 1200fps Nature on the i7 @ 4.2GHz, if you have a Core 2 CPU, use that instead

[G.Foyle]

I only have i7 available ATM. Anyway, dice is cheap and it won't be wasted if I learn something in the process, right?

[BenchZowner]

I only have i7 available ATM. Anyway, dice is cheap and it won't be wasted if I learn something in the process, right?

Can't disagree with you on that
Just make sure you prepare your OS's images to run most of the benchmarks.

[Ch@pS]

Hopefully I can organise a VGA for this comp before it ends, at the moment all I have with me is an 8600GT, not going to get 1200FPS nature with that. :P Need to harass the boss. I wish we could get some comps like this happening locally, we used to but they died out. Would be sweet if we could get a monthly comp like this in all major 3D benchies, maybe get some prizes sponsored etc? Worth lookign into i rate.

[Piotke]

Small question as it's been a long time since I've ran 3d mark01.

How are you going to check the cpu speed ? I guess you start 3d mark ar 4.2 Ghz, fire it up trough a clockgenwise program to 6 Ghz, and then for the screenshot turn it back to 4.2 Ghz ?

[BenchZowner]

Small question as it's been a long time since I've ran 3d mark01.

How are you going to check the cpu speed ? I guess you start 3d mark ar 4.2 Ghz, fire it up trough a clockgenwise program to 6 Ghz, and then for the screenshot turn it back to 4.2 Ghz ?

At these clock speeds some tests are totally limited, and any discrepancies can be noticed easily.
Cheaters beware!

[Vivi]

yea we have 2001 eyes, we can easily see which test has been bugged .
because a card at stock wil score like 300 CH, then on 1000 core it will score 318 ish car high, so not boost almost from vga, if u up cpu we will see.

Well this weekend my card maxed out -125c and 1175 core for a brief nature, got me 1080 nature, which isnt enough . im guessing a 1250 - 1300 card would get it, or if i ran on rampage. But yea the gts 512 can def win this comp if you have a good one. Im out for single card. But i will talk about my 790i 2x gts 512 later . They reach 1400 fps nature EASY

Cool.
on OT note, finally reached top 100! #97 !

[Achill3uS]

okay im back on c2d and ready for some 01 fun

first result, not really tweaked but low CH bug is still a problem with 295s, do we have a solution for that? ive tried 185.20 beta driver but all the same

[Vivi]

no solution yet achil
we must mail nvidia!

[G.Foyle]

Took my GTX280 under dice today.
I had to pop the lid to tame the temps:



Final product of my tweaking:



Bottom line: I have lots to learn

xoqolatl, don't waste your dry ice.
You won't be able to reach 1200fps Nature on the i7 @ 4.2GHz, if you have a Core 2 CPU, use that instead

I think a skilled tweaker with 1100+ on GPU core could do 1200 nature.

[BenchZowner]

Took my GTX280 under dice today.
I had to pop the lid to tame the temps:



Final product of my tweaking:



Bottom line: I have lots to learn

That's true.
Only 880MHz GPU with Dry Ice man ?
Are you using a very very very bad pot or something ? Or just being conservative regarding your GPU's voltage ?
I never had to remove the IHS of a GTX 280, no need to.
+1 for having the guts to do it though

I think a skilled tweaker with 1100+ on GPU core could do 1200 nature.

Unfortunately, there's a "barrier" in Nature that you can't cross without raising the CPU & UnCore frequency quite a lot.
Nothing helps going higher.
Tweaks that give me 50fps more ? Nothing
Higher GPU clocks ? Nothing

[G.Foyle]

Only 880MHz GPU with Dry Ice man ?
Are you using a very very very bad pot or something ? Or just being conservative regarding your GPU's voltage ?

I'm using the best pot there is, TEK-9 4.0
Thing is my card is half dead. It was dead when I got it; I transplanted half of PWM circuitry from another dead card and it came back to life, but it heats like a furnace now. Voltages up to 1.44V didn't help, I ran into OCP or just core crashing with more volts.

[hey]

hi!, here is a crappy score with crappy p45 mabo i wish i had pcie powa

[k|ngp|n]

Nice work so far everyone! Guess I should put up some kind of leader board or something. These threads go a long way in getting 01 scores up to snuff, doesn't matter what HW you use.

[stummerwinter]

Guess I should put up some kind of leader board or something.

Would help...

[gprhellas]

hm...my first test with 9800GX2 on -40C at low clocks 918/1105
PCIe 125 MHz, last the Nature.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9480417

[Oliver]

awesome work gprhellas , you did a great job huh , the gx2 aint bad neither ...

keep pushing it

[hipro5]

hm...my first test with 9800GX2 on -40C at low clocks 918/1105
PCIe 125 MHz, last the Nature.

Heh, heh, heh, nice one George.
I think that it's better for you benching alone at home - you are more productive - ....

[gprhellas]

awesome work gprhellas , you did a great job huh , the gx2 aint bad neither ...

keep pushing it

thanks oliver, i hav'nt free time to bench like old days.......

Heh, heh, heh, nice one George.
I think that it's better for you benching alone at home - you are more productive - ....

I think because my bench room is “NOT SMOKING” area…ha ha ha
Smoke mane me nervous…..

[crustytheclown]

I think because my bench room is “NOT SMOKING” area…ha ha ha
Smoke mane me nervous…..

Oh man the exact opposite from hipro's place (compulsary smoking haha...) great scores for both of you guys...

[Deanzo]

89501 GTX260

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9480534




Best I can do so far on the GTX295 is 91K, need to go cold to get to 1400fps cap, and theres one small issue with that.