What does it take to get 7.9 in Windows 7?

[ex2cib]

for drivers, use the latest catalyst 9.6

these are the only catalyst drivers that i dont lose points on the WEI scores with using my 4870

my current scores on my i7 rig are
cpu 7.7
mem 7.9
graphics 7.5
gaming graphics 7.5
hd 5.5

[Hidetaka]

my current scores on my i7 rig are
cpu 7.7
mem 7.9
graphics 7.5
gaming graphics 7.5
hd 5.5

What kind of HDD are you using?
I got 5.8 with a HDD that gets av. 67MB/s read and 14,5 seeks in HD Tune >.<



That's what I get with PC from sig. Stock clocks on HD4850, 3,15GHz on E6550, 900 MHz CL5 on RAM and the ancient HDD mentioned above...

[JohnZS]

Intel QX9650 @ Stock
ASUS P5E3 1502 BETA BIOS
8GB of RAM (OCZ Platinum 1600EB XTC) @ 1333Mhz CL7
BFG nVidia GTX 280 1GB Graphics card
Intel SSD
Windows 7 RC

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Intel QX9650 @ Stock
ASUS P5E3 1502 BETA BIOS
8GB of RAM (OCZ Platinum 1600EB XTC) @ 1333Mhz CL7
BFG nVidia GTX 280 1GB Graphics card
Intel SSD
Windows 7 RC

Nice HDD score is that an X25-M or X25E?

I can beat you on every other front though!

I got evey thing into the 7s

i7 965
12GB GSkill Trident 9-9-9-24 2000MHz
P6T-SE
3xPQI SSD S525 64GB RAID 0
2x 4870x2
Windows RC 7201

@ Stock (XMP engaged - 143MHz FSB)


@ 4.2GHz (200x21)


Will force 3d Clocks to see if I can get more out of the GPUs but given that people are getting higher scores with inferior graphics (e.g. single 4870 with high clocks) it seems that it only stresses the primary graphics core. Your 6.6 on GTX280 puts me of trying nVidia cards, maybe a 4890 @ 900/1100 would do well.

[JohnZS]

Impressive scores Initialised
I might be able to get a 6.9 when nVidia update their farceware drivers (apparently the WDM 1.1 drivers which ship with Windows 7 have a score of 6.9) whether that is true or not.. I don't know
Anyway I have 2x 80GB X-25M in RAID0
John

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After reading some posts with higher GPU scores on a single card and running the test on my own PC (sig) with a 4870x2 @ 775/1100 forced by RivaTuner it would appear that the Graphics score is determined by the performance of a single GPU and the primary framebuffer.

Here's the result:



Tomorrow I will try a single 4890 1GB with the highest clocks I can get stable.

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Impressive scores Initialised
I might be able to get a 6.9 when nVidia update their farceware drivers (apparently the WDM 1.1 drivers which ship with Windows 7 have a score of 6.9) whether that is true or not.. I don't know
Anyway I have 2x 80GB X-25M in RAID0
John

Have you tried the 190.15s? The're on Guru3d.

Single x25-M gets 7.9, good, I think I may have one coming in soon.

OK can anyone show me the minimum CPU speed needed for 7.9? I'm guessing 4.5-4.7GHz on i7, 3.5 on Hexcore or 3GHz on Octocore (Skull Trail 2).

[ripken204]

initialised - i get a 7.3 with my 4850x2, using 9.6 drivers, i find it very odd that it scores higher than your 4870x2..

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initialised - i get a 7.3 with my 4850x2, using 9.6 drivers, i find it very odd that it scores higher than your 4870x2..

It must be how the test works, it doesn't matter how many GPUs you have, the score is proportional to GPU speed and memory bandwidth. I replaced the x2 with one of these bad boys:



It gave me 7.6 stock



7.7 overclocked as far as possible in CCC 1000/1135.



I managed to get the CPU benchable at 4.3GHz but it still gave 7.7, 4.4GHz got to windows but would BSOD, freeze or reboot when I ran the tests.

[Fafeifa]

That x25-M looks great i hope they go down in price so i can pick few of them.

[benko]

anybody tried gtx285 with latest drivers???

[MikeB12]

this is
*Q6600@3330mhz 1.35v - True120 | Abit IP35pro | 2x2GB Gskil 1000@925mhz | 2 x EVGA GTS 250- shader 1890 | Corsair HX520 | OCZ Vertex 60GB/Seagate 7200.11 500GB

the gts 250's are not sli.

[dengyong]

The reason for the low disk score is that I have windows 7 on a single titan ssd.
Build 7100
Vid driver 186.18
win7index.jpg

[road-runner]

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anybody tried gtx285 with latest drivers???

Can do, will use 190.15, benching now on the built in driver.

So even 4.6GHz isn't enough for 7.9 on the CPU FFS.

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GTX285 Stock Clocks:
Built in driver (185.83) get 7.3, 7.3.
190.15 gets 7.4, 7.4

This is probably because the 4000 series has support for DX10.1 while nVidia is still lagging at DX10

[benko]

GTX285 Stock Clocks:
Built in driver (185.83) get 7.3, 7.3.
190.15 gets 7.4, 7.4

This is probably because the 4000 series has support for DX10.1 while nVidia is still lagging at DX10

yepp i think you are right....maybe things will change with dx10.1 40nm desktop gpu's...

have you tried overclocking it??

[benko]

try with one 4870x2, it should give better results...also is this 4.6GHz on air??

[dany74q]

Anyone with GTX295 results?
I wonder how this test works,if 8 core CPU at 4.6GHz isn`t enough...

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Anyone with GTX295 results?
I wonder how this test works,if 8 core CPU at 4.6GHz isn`t enough...

It will be like Vista. Vista needs an E8xxx dual core at ~4.4GHz with high FSB to hit 5.9 CPU iirc but a Q8xxx or Ph1 gets 5.9 by default.

I'm predicting that GTX295 will get less than GTX285 for the same reasons that 4870x2 gets less than 4890.

I'll slot one in tomorrow and see what happens.

[Utnorris]

Man, this is just ridiculous, you can see what I have in my sig and I get the following:

CPU - 7.7
Mem - 7.8
Graphics - 6.5
Gaming - 6.5 Seriously? I guess the 27k Vantage score sucks.
Hard Drive - 6.5 I guess 4 x Veliciraptors in RAID 0 isn't fast either.

Seriously makes me pissed the score I get, however it also makes me want to get higher, now that's messed up right there.

[benko]

Man, this is just ridiculous, you can see what I have in my sig and I get the following:

CPU - 7.7
Mem - 7.8
Graphics - 6.5
Gaming - 6.5 Seriously? I guess the 27k Vantage score sucks.
Hard Drive - 6.5 I guess 4 x Veliciraptors in RAID 0 isn't fast either.

Seriously makes me pissed the score I get, however it also makes me want to get higher, now that's messed up right there.

remove one 280, install 7201 build and get 190.15 drivers...it should bump gpu score

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Man, this is just ridiculous, you can see what I have in my sig and I get the following:

CPU - 7.7
Mem - 7.8
Graphics - 6.5
Gaming - 6.5 Seriously? I guess the 27k Vantage score sucks.
Hard Drive - 6.5 I guess 4 x Veliciraptors in RAID 0 isn't fast either.

Seriously makes me pissed the score I get, however it also makes me want to get higher, now that's messed up right there.

Your CPU score is bang on, memory score is too low (should be 7.9), graphics should be higher and your HDD score is better than I got with 3x300WDVR RAID-0. Which build are you using?

[Particle]

Man, this is just ridiculous, you can see what I have in my sig and I get the following:

CPU - 7.7
Mem - 7.8
Graphics - 6.5
Gaming - 6.5 Seriously? I guess the 27k Vantage score sucks.
Hard Drive - 6.5 I guess 4 x Veliciraptors in RAID 0 isn't fast either.

Seriously makes me pissed the score I get, however it also makes me want to get higher, now that's messed up right there.

Don't be surprised about your HDD score. Sequential transfer rates mean very little. Judging by how the folks with SSDs are scoring, it would make sense that the test is quite latency sensitive. Putting 16 Raptors in RAID-0 wouldn't help.

[Bo_Fox]

ROFL!!!

You need 3x 15000RPM 450GB cheetah SAS drives in Raid 0!!!

Also, you need 5GHz core i7, 2.5GHz DDR3 at 7-7-7 timings, and a Larrabee (dont ask me why, but Microsoft is going to give Intel a lot of points after entering into some kind of a secret contract with Intel).