Poll: how many times have you run 3DMark (any version)

[IvanAndreevich]

Looping doesn't count I mean individual runs. So if you leave it looping overnight to test stability, that counts as 1 run. By the way, unsuccessful runs DO count. So if it crashed half-way, that counts.

I'm going with the third option myself

[FragTek]

I'm somewhere in the 50-500 catagory.

[C Stat B]

I said 500-1000.

[wwwww]

Would easily be 1000-10000.

[DeNs]

It probably is closer to 1000, but I would rest easier thinking that I didn't waste so much time of my life :P 500-1000 for me

---dens

[funkflix]

1000-10000 i would say, started with benching 3DMark about 5-6 Years ago.

[HousERaT]

easily between 1000-10000 with the exception of 06

[Marvin_The_Martian]

I guess somewhere from 500-1000 or up. Not bad for a couple off months worth off benching I guess

[GoldenTiger]

Probably around 50-75 times for me.

[IvanAndreevich]

Who said 10000+?

[metro.cl]

500-1000 for me but next to more than 1000+

[haPpydUde]

over 1000+ for shure, probly closer to 5000

[Gautam]

Probably pretty far on the higher end of 1000-10000.

[MusicIsMyLife]

~680 project files on my hard disk, with looping an unsaved tests I would say up to 1000.

[Codeman05]

atleast 500. Well over 1000 including looping

[perkam]

FM's watching



Less than 100 for me, went on a crazy run to get my 9600 non pro to 11k in 01 :p That's when I discovered the orb doesnt mind artifacted 3dmark runs lol

Perkam

[Mowgli]

hmm...mine about less than 100 i guess...not much of a bencher esp when u dont have much HW to play with...lol...juz started benching bout a yr ago...

[Zyklon5]

This should have been more like: How many car low's you ran in a row ... ?

[Hicks]

No more than 150.

For anyone who has benched more than 1000 times, please do yourself a favour and get a girlfreind.

[PlatoonSgtElias]

Prolly over 10000+ hehe, been benchmarking heavy from year 2002 :P

[[XC]melymel]

I guess i'd be near the 500 mark . Have only been benching since i got this card as its really addicting when your nearly doubling your stock score in 3dmark .
VIVA LA 6800LE!!!

[guess2098]

about 50 runs per day....
from 2 years = 730*50 = 36500 lol

ok take out 50% still.......18250.... LOL

[cromwello]

erm about 3-5 times a day for past year so not very many.

3dmark 06 destroys my poor 7800gtx

[Kunaak]

to be honest with you... well past 10,000 I'd imagine.

theres been days, where I benchmarked for 10-15 hours straight, especially when I get new hardware, or new cooling toys.
some people say thats kinda nutty... but I don't see it any different then say playing morrowind for half a day...
or watching tv for 6-8 hours a night (which according to the NTSC... most people do)

I can spend days tweaking and tweaking and tweaking one part of a benchmark, just to find out how to get the best possible score.

I am always modifying drivers to do things they aren't meant to do... to see where the heaviest optimizations come in, then mod the driver names... so I know, but no one knows I use a modded driver (like mr. icee use to say, top benchmarkers don't give away all the tricks... some you gotta learn on your own)
running, one single part of a benchmark over and over and over, to find where my clocks are best, and fastest day to day use, and fastest benchmark use.
I usually know, with 100% certainty where my videocard becomes unstable... where my ram starts to become a risk of crashing a benchmark if I take my luck pushing it alittle too far... all that stuff.
to me, benchmarking is just fun.

some days, I've spent hours and hours... only to beat my personal best, by one 50 points... but I always like doing that.

I bet I'll run 3dmark a million more times before I get bored of it, haha....

[Turrican]

i'm using 3dmark since the 99-version.
i think i'm somwhere in the 500-1000 catagory