5,500 3DMark 06 points okayish?

[Hunain]

hey Folks, since i blew my 7600gt, i got meself a budget buy with MSI NX8600GT OC edition, it is overclocked n all, has a passive cooler tho, anyways, I ran 3dMark06, I got my CPU to 2.5Ghz btw from 3.2, it is hot here these days n im scared to blow anything else

Anyways i got 5,490 3dMark06 points on 2.5Ghz C2D e6300, 2GB ram, MSI 8600gt, is that okay?
SM 2 score 2248, SM 3 score 2200, CPU score 2050.

btw, sometimes this 8600gt feels slower than the 7600gt, and vista's own benchmark gave 7600gt 5.6 marks, gave 8600gt 5.4 marks

PS: the card idles around 57 - 60 and loads at around 77, its passively cooled, is that okay?

[kalniel]

The 8600GT is slower for somethings, it's a bit of a crippled card.

It's better for SM3.0 stuff, hence why it scores higher in synthetic benchmarks like 3dmark, but come games that need actual 'power' (textures, lighting etc.) it's not actually as good in many situations as the 7600GT.

At the end of the day benchmarks don't mean much - I get about the same score as you with my x1950xt, but I can play just about every game out there on full settings.

Yes those temps are fine, good actually.

[Zak33]

STOP BENCHMARKING AND START PLAYING GAMES!!!!!!


Seriously, that's not a bad score for an 8600 so go play some games

[SiM]

My 939 system used to get more than that

[Hunain]

SIM i dont know lol, thats why im asking, btw, this is 3dmark 06 im talking about not 05 ...ZAK33 says its good

BTW, im running vista ultimate, 32bit, if that matters

[SiM]

I'm talking about 3dmark06 too and I was using a single core cpu and a nvidia 9800gtx

[Hunain]

how is that possible

[SiM]

Originally Posted by Hunain

how is that possible

l33tn3ss

[staffsMike]

9800GTX doesn't hurt either

[TAKTAK]

just as a comparable result i just ran a test and gotteth:

5988 3D Marks

SM2:2542
SM3:2320
CPU:2212

and that is with: (i CBA to type )

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6400+ (@ stock cos of the hot weather)
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS (Forceware 177.41)
2GB PC6400

[Hunain]

So i think mine is doing fine! its 2.5 Ghz C2D and an 8600gt, TAKTAKs score is just 500 ahead with the 6400 Athlon x2 and the 8600gts..

[Mithrandir]

Well for comparison, I get 6800 on the following system:

Opteron 146 2.79ghz (single core cpu)
2900gt
4 sticks of ram (2gb @ 2T)
Win XP


My CPU scores low here. It only get 1080.



My other system is also AMD at 2.8ghz
x1900cf edition (512mb)
2 sticks of ram (2gb @ 1T)
Win XP

This one scores around 4900.

As you can see it scores lower than your system, but it can run games very well.

If you really want to benchmark, then I would suggest the following:

Crysis
Company of Heroes
Devil May cry 4
Lost Planet
FEAR

[Hunain]

Thanks for the links Mithrander, im trying lost planet now, will tell u how it goes.

[Infinite]

I got just over 8000.

E6600, 4850.

That sound right? Does changing the resolution the Mark is run at from default affect the score?

[SiM]

Originally Posted by Infinite

I got just over 8000.

E6600, 4850.

That sound right? Does changing the resolution the Mark is run at from default affect the score?

That is a bad score... look at my single core score:
9800GTX ftw

[kalniel]

Originally Posted by SiM

That is a bad score... look at my single core score:
9800GTX ftw

What's your score without any OC, and with no image quality optimisations?

EDit: found the non OC results - 8126. Ie the same.