New 3DMark03 WR with 3-Way SLI: 103888

[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 To me that would be the only reason to run outdated benchmarking software.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.

[Charles Wirth]

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

[Turrican]

great result

[Zeus]

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

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
The others 3DMarks didn't i 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

PS: u made it to theinquirer

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...esome-tops-orb

[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

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

PS: u made it to theinquirer

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...esome-tops-orb

There are lurkers from TheInq in our midst

[JANJWJMC]

The force is strong on you 3 way sli

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......

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

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

[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 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

[maverik-sg1]

all thoose 3 way sli results make me wet 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

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

[n3wbi3]

all thoose 3 way sli results make me wet 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

call of the week

[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.....