kyle glied

3d Mark 06 Proffesional Edition.

Is a total score of 16,416 a good score?

Subscores;
Sm2.0 Score 6,716
Hdr/Sm3.0 Score 6,882
CPU Score 5,500

Thank You

grimx133

I just recently "filed" a whack of notes with many '06 runs included. Have to look and see if I put them anywhere that I can find them again. Have an idea, but not at home right now. Off hand it sounds lowish, but I'll take a fast look when I get home in the morning.

kyle glied

it may be because i have the new lynnfield core i7, just came out in September, and under the cpu tests it only tests 2 cpu's.

emosun

Considering your machines specs 16,000 is not a good score , for comparison even my computer gets a 13,000.

sm2 5149
sm3 6296
cpu 3501

Your's should be above 18,000/20,000 I would imagine.

kyle glied

hmm which of the scores are low on mine?
which do you think should have been higher?

emosun

Mostly your videocard score should have been. 3d mark isn't a very good program to measure pc speed. I believe you can easily manipulate the score by running it at lower settings. For example , if i ran it at 640x480 I might actually get 16,000 as well.

Try rerunning it at 1280x1024 , thats what I had it at. I have the demo version , so it automatically chooses that res for me.

kyle glied

oh ok. i put all resolutions at 1650x1050,
also my video card temp went up to 74C haha ill turn the fan up to 90 or 100% then post back

emosun

Yea keep the card under 70c at all times. It would also help to end any other tasks as well , virus scanners , messengers , browsers , ect...

kyle glied

well now the HDR/SM3.0 went up to 7689
SM2.0 Score 5633 (lower)
CPU 5485 (about the same)

i wont stress over it.

kyle glied

it also does not take advantage of the hyperthreading for my processor, even though i hear that does not do much for gaming anyways.
here is the full report of it.

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emosun

Hyperthreading was really a gimmick to sell the pentium 4 back in the day. It seems intel pulled the exact same trick on the i7 series.

kyle glied

what is the most resource demanding game out and do you think my system can play it well with good fps. if so then i could care less about this program rating my computer high

grimx133

Your computer specs should play anything well. Plenty of cpu and graphics power, no worries there. Like anything else, you try and play something at a ridiculously high resolution on a huge monitor, then it won't perform quite as good. I use 1680x1050 on a 22" monitor, don't know of any game out there that I couldn't run decently.

kyle glied

thanks man.
about you accelero cooler, does that work well? i Constantly have to turn my
EVGA gtx 285 2gb fan up to atleast 60% or more when gaming to keep it below 70C
and is it difficult to install?

grimx133

Was a bit of a pain to install, the instructions didn't mention that the gpu frame had to be removed too. Works great though, I run folding@home on it, 100% gpu usage and it stays in the 50's Celcius. With the stock cooler, I had the fan running at 90% just to keep it under 80C. and that was way too loud for me. The Accelero is nice and quiet, even with the fan on 100% all the time.

kyle glied

i will look into that because the fan is very loud and annoying; and doesnt cool it very well either.
can you post the link that you bought yours at please?

grimx133

I got mine at www.ncix.com but they don't list it anymore. Will take a look around, see if I can find a link. Checking a review site right now, some of them have store links in them.