1) Normal ES: Available to partners and press before the product actually launches. These are usually close to retail parts, maybe one stepping/node before retails. From my experience (I've had access to AMD & Intel ES CPUs before the official launch around 8 years) normal ES CPUs are actually usually worse than retails because manufacturing process develops all the time and retails keep getting better. Every Phenom II press sample (not even marked as ES but couple weeks earlier than retail parts) I've tested so far have been worse than normal retails.
This competition only provides for those with like 4x SLI or Crossfire!? not too fair.
3 gpus minimum
The 58xx are still a "little" expensive,no x2 version just yet,so unless you already have 3-4 4890's....it's a little hard
to compete for a lot of people that's for sure.
As far as SLI goes.....can you even get 28000 points
with the cpu under 3500mhz?
(Not much experience with 3dmark here. )
Offcourse also concratulations from mine site to the both of you.
To bad I had to withdraw, because of family matters.
Today I did some tests and the result I want you all to see
Setup:
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE retail @ 3510.1MHZ
Asus Crosshair III Formula Mainboard (Bios 1003)
A-Data D9GTR 1600X @ 866MHZ CL6-5-5-18-30-1T
2 x ATI Radeon 4870X2 @ 829 / 1000 Mhz
PC Power & Cooling 1200W
Win Vista 32-bit
Ati Catalyst 9.7 driver
Cooling : SS Phase Change
3DMARK05 score : 28009 3DMarks
Last edited by Oldscarface; 11-06-2009 at 10:33 AM.
Offcourse also concratulations from mine site to the both of you.
To bad I had to withdraw, because of family matters.
Today I did some tests and the result I want you all to see
Setup:
AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE retail @ 3510.1MHZ
Asus Crosshair III Formula Mainboard (Bios 1003)
A-Data D9GTR 1600X @ 866MHZ CL6-5-5-18-30-1T
2 x ATI Radeon 4870X2 @ 829 / 1100 Mhz
PC Power & Cooling 1200W
Win Vista 32-bit
Ati Catalyst 9.7 driver
Cooling : SS Phase Change
3DMARK05 score : 28009 3DMarks
Nice work
I knew the crosshair paired with the x2's would be the fastest, wanted to bench it but when I say i'm done and have no time I actually mean it.
1) Normal ES: Available to partners and press before the product actually launches. These are usually close to retail parts, maybe one stepping/node before retails. From my experience (I've had access to AMD & Intel ES CPUs before the official launch around 8 years) normal ES CPUs are actually usually worse than retails because manufacturing process develops all the time and retails keep getting better. Every Phenom II press sample (not even marked as ES but couple weeks earlier than retail parts) I've tested so far have been worse than normal retails.
Lifes more fun at -190C
Linear Mode
