Asus P5B Deluxe (P965) & X1900CF/XTX 3DMark05 Results

[freecableguy]

Mild overclock on the X1900 cards. Each are running at 680/800 on silent air (Accelero X2). PCI-e bus is overclocked to 120MHz. I assume the system is running the cards in 8x/4x mode but this is hard to verify at this time as CPU-Z still reports the primary video card at a 16x link speed. Crossfire definately works though. CPU is set to 7x533 = 3.73GHz, memory @ DDR-1066, 4-4-4-10.

And here's what I got on a first run. I'm sure there's more but my goal is silence. Remember, this is all air and quiet air at that!

3DMark05: 18567




-FCG

[Pyr0]

very nice
thanks for testing FCG
can i ask what kind of improvement you saw over a single card please?

[afireinside]

hmm what did it do same settings on 975? Or did you not test? At least it works pretty well.

[Counter CS]

Hey look at this review

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2837

[Joor]

Yep with new P5w dh 1405 bios you will see performance improvements up to 10% in most game titles compared to the previous bios.

[b1lk1]

Thank you very much for the effort freecableguy. THis along with that review on Anandtech show me that I can more than live with the performance loss and not buy another motherboard! Thanks again!

[freecableguy]

notice too that this is with BIOS 0614 - no "special" BIOS is required for crossfire to work although i am sure a new BIOS will definately help performance.

[jackies]

So, how much improvement over single card? FPS/marks?