Sampsa and Macci bring new 3dMark05 record

[ahmad]

Specs:

Athlon 64 FX-60
Radeon X1900 CrossFire
ATI RD580 reference board
2 x Mushkin RedLine
PC Power & Cooling 1 kW PSU
Dry Ice cooling

The more impressive part is:

System running. CPU container around -50C with FX-60 running @ 3537 MHz

Radeon X1900 CF running at pretty low frequencies: 800/843 MHz, containers around -25C

Just amazing. Congrats to the masters, and we hope to see more



Now that the NDA on rd580 has lifted, top 5 has already been dominated by ATI.

(more info @ http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...40#post1308440)

[-Acid-]

kinpin is on nvidia tho


well done macci and sampsa

[ahmad]

kinpin is on nvidia tho


well done macci and sampsa

I said dominated by ATI, I didn't say owned by ATI

[-Acid-]

they are cleaning up
wonder how much longer knipin is gonna stay on Nv he did say he has some in reserve just incase he gets beaten

[kiwi]

7900 should be out soon

[metro.cl]

i still dont think macci scores count as before, he now works for ati.

Still a great score

[CRUSH-ER]

Yeah I doubt someone as trusted as Macci would skew results.

Good stuff guys.

[korda]

7900 should be out soon

Won't be enough.

[korda]

oh yes it wil be enough
the ati raping wil be soon enough there..

G71 clocks up to 710mhz on stock air,thats not bad

Yeah, i'm afraid you're right. G71 should OC like a beast.

So, when's ATI's next refresh?

This is an expensive hobby.

[ahmad]

oh yes it wil be enough
the ati raping wil be soon enough there..

G71 clocks up to 710mhz on stock air,thats not bad

Not bad yes, but it needs 750MHz to match/beat the x1900xt. 60MHz increase is not very impressive too, considering the x1900xt can go up to 700-750MHz on air which is 100-125MHz extra.

Anyways, we shall see.

[Pinnacle]

Just squeezed by Kinc!

[Weee]

How about a gentleman's agreement to run an additional set of benchmarks at 1600x1200 with 4xaa and 8xaf among all the top scorers and post those results along with your default settings results so we can actually see there's a difference between two card types.. because 5% difference makes no difference as far as I'm concerned.

Just a thought!

Congrats as always to top ORB benchmarkers!

[DilTech]

Won't be enough.

If it's only a 230 point difference, then it'll EASILY be enough to take back the 05 crown. It's not going to need much more to take that down with ease!

[korda]

If it's only a 230 point difference, then it'll EASILY be enough to take back the 05 crown. It's not going to need much more to take that down with ease!

Radeon X1900 CF running at pretty low frequencies: 800/843 MHz

Pretty low. They aren't done yet i bet.

Anyway, i bet G71 will rock the house, but i think i'll keep my X1900.

It's nice to see the extremes slug it out though.

[n00b 0f l337]

Imagine 3 solid containers
Then imagine ln2.

Or just conroe. lmao

[ahmad]

How about a gentleman's agreement to run an additional set of benchmarks at 1600x1200 with 4xaa and 8xaf among all the top scorers and post those results along with your default settings results so we can actually see there's a difference between two card types.. because 5% difference makes no difference as far as I'm concerned.

Just a thought!

Congrats as always to top ORB benchmarkers!

The thing is if you do that, nvidia gets beaten by a large margin. This much is well known.

[mr_knowitall15]

wow. i bet that was the best 7 3DMarks ever squeezed out of hardware..

[BSill]

I'll take a better IQ over a few fps that the eye cant recognize anyway, anyday, expecially since im running on 1600+ res

x1900xt

[GoriLLakoS]

they are second one 2001 ...

http://service.futuremark.com/orb/projectsearch.jsp

[BSill]

Willis I think your misunderstanding that the amount of points that seperate those two scores isn't really that much. Those who benchmark know this as well. First and second place mean nothing on their skill, knowledge, talent, whatver. They are simply the best OC'ers around and both uncomparable to each other. Plain and simple, nice work guys. Very impressive!

[ahmad]

In addition to what BSill said, there somethings you are missing. Here are both scores:

Both macci and hipro are masters in the art, no one can deny that. But everyone also knows that 3dmark01 is more a CPU than a GPU bench, but the GPU still plays a role. On top of that, everyone knows that dothans dominate any A64 clock for clock.

With these things taken into account, hipro was running at 41xxMHz on the dothan, and macci only at 34xxMHz on the FX-60. On top of that, the cards macci used were watercooled vs what hipro used (@ -25c? I know it was below zero).

I am sure that an fx-60 at 3.7Ghz in macci's hands will go above and beyond 55k.

[metro.cl]

In addition to what BSill said, there somethings you are missing. Here are both scores:

Both macci and hipro are masters in the art, no one can deny that. But everyone also knows that 3dmark01 is more a CPU than a GPU bench, but the GPU still plays a role. On top of that, everyone knows that dothans dominate any A64 clock for clock.

With these things taken into account, hipro was running at 41xxMHz on the dothan, and macci only at 34xxMHz on the FX-60. On top of that, the cards macci used were watercooled vs what hipro used (@ -25c? I know it was below zero).

I am sure that an fx-60 at 3.7Ghz in macci's hands will go above and beyond 55k.

fx-60 is dual core i believe that is something dothan dont have.

[iboomalot]

Iam not an intel fan but the new DUO core yonah cores could be dangerous.

[sin0822]

macci was not water cooled, he was dice on both gpus: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ATI/RD580OC/

THos pics are acutally ours, well tpus

[Sesto Sento]

and Hipro5 is only with ONE CARD, not two...
BTW, this score won't last too long... MickeyMouse, now has a dual core that bench @ 3.7ghz 20k will go down pretty soon, i hope...