3DMARK2001SE Worklog results
just to reiterate the rules i am working against
the goal is to reach as high a score with these settings as possible. From memory the highest score so far was around 89600 or thereabouts. i have to "tweak" my way there which makes this interesting
Listen CAREFULLY...one piece is for best single GPU score, the other is for best multi GPU score. The cpu clock limit is 4.2 jigahertz, that is 4200mhz and not a mhz over!! Any cpu is fine, any mobo is fine, any gpu is fine AS LONG as it follows the ABOVE guidelines of single GPU or multi GPU. GPU=1 CORE. Single gpu nature cap is 1200fps, and multi gpu 1400fps nature
It started off with 85255 points basically. This was the first run with OCd settings.
System: you will notice that i am runing at 600MHz FSB with PL9 and RAM at 960MHz 7-7-6-20 1T
this Rampage Extreme is an absolute monster
Graphics card is doing 980MHz core and 1200MHz vmem at stock volts
i decided to keep the rest of the screenshots small otherwise it would take ages to scroll down and see all the scores as there are a lot of screens to follow as i've recorded incremetal stages too
OK the next two runs are 85488 & 85514
No change in GFX clocks just played with running order and LOD with a CL most likely adding a few extra points
I decided to make things a little more interesting here. I worked on GFX card clocks some more and LOD on nature which is usually most susceptible to changes. I've found a couple of interesting things here. First of all i was reaching my volt/clock limit on GPU which is running at 1.31v in 3D. Once i bumpted the volts to 1.4v i could pass core at 1040MHz without issues.
Second thing i found interesting was nature FPS itself. I had a bug of some sort with low scores and i could not put a finger on it to find that a mix of LOD and also setting the clocks before the run gave me higher frames. LOD is an intersting experiement so i will let you guys work a little on finding out what works best. Just test 1,2,3,4,5,...etc and then do smaller variations to narrow down where it seems to work the best for you.
Let's recap here
Score: 87547
GPU clocks: 1040/1200
GPU volts: 1.4v
CPU/system settings: unchanged
Next score is 87827
pretty big boost
This was after a system reboot most likely. Most significant changes here are in CL and Nature as you can see in the FPS provided in the screenshot. One thing to note for those that are unaware if you run CL many times you will see that the barrel in the middle of the run doesnt appear and also at the end of the run your frames on a "good" run will be somewhat here.
Next score is 87881
Another small change. you can see its from another reboot as all the FPS in tests are a bit different. i've lost FPS in some tests and gained in others most from varying the run order of tests and LOD. Just experimenting and gaining which is good news. It's a good idea to write down values used so that you can look over your screenshots and see what worked best where but i just didnt have that much time on my hands and wanted to run through some things i've used in the past that worked for me. So far so good.
Next Score: 87942
i got greedy here and reran my first CL which was at great FPS and lost 4frames
but i gained some more on another test hence points jump
There is a change in system settings if you have a keen eye. I've worked my RAM subtimings some more where i know i've been stable at in the past.
Next score: 88031
Now we get to a different part of tweaking '01. I've now had a fair few runs and I now know roughly what i can get with current tweaks in most tests but is there anything else i could work on to improve the score. This stage can be a success or failure so alway record the highest score you have so that you dont mess up but at the same time you are also hoping that you dont mess up too much cause if you get a bad test and cant get the FPS up without rebooting there is not much point benching any more. In this test it was nature that did the trick with extra points. How? I increased the GPU clocks before i reran it to 1048MHz.
Next score is is a jump again to 88132
This resulted from OCing the GPU core again to 1054MHz.
There is something interesting in the next two screenshots for 3DMARK2001 enthusiasts like a good game of chess(which i hate). I know what my next move is to get to a superhigh score and i will highlight it on the next two screenshots. You will notice that instead of GPUz tab I added a tab for an application that can help you calculate a final score in '01 and the final score says 89670
.......yes it says that because i've used the FPS from existing run and inserted a nature score of 1199FPS to see where i would roughly be if i could reach the cap >> basically at one of the top runs.
So now that i know a significant change i have to stop my tweaking of other tests and figure out how to get that score. From some consultation it seems that i need to increase the GPU clocks to 1175+MHz but that means i need to be on better cooling on GPU and its not an option as i've borrowed the card for testing so i have to work on tweaking nature and improving my GPU scores slightly.
Next two screenshots are just a continuation from previous test by upping the GPU core clocks with volts on core at 1.425v at the moment. I've reached a limit of 1064MHz core and 1200MHz RAM....Any more on core and i get an instant green screen where RAM cannot handle the extra GPU core increase basically and i have to back off on RAM. I've actually had some more tests but havent put them on the USB stick and will post later where i've tested up to 1090Mhz core and vmem around 1072Mhz or something along the lines which nature peaking at around 1135FPS so far. Core MHz on GPU is key to higher nature score now for me.
Score with GPU at 1060/1200 - 88215
Score with GPU at 1064/1200 - 88267
These scores would improve with a fresh reboot run as well but this was just me finding out where i'm at right now
Extremely positive first session. I know what i need to reach top scores and i still have a fair bit of tweakin to do so 90K might even be within reach. Hard to say until i do more testing. If i could only put this card on LN2 things would be very different heheheheh
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