16,633- 3DMark06 with a 4870 and a G35 Chipset...that seem right?

[thescavenger]

I see that a lot of people are breaking 17k in 3DMark06 with a quad and a single 4870. Most of those guys are running X38/X48 chipsets.

I am using a G35 northbridge and my results are around 400-600 points lower than the X38/X48 guys. Could this be caused by a limitation in my chipset (ie PCI-E 1.0 rather than 2.0)?

All of the specs for my 3DMark runs are listed in my signature.

Tell me what you think!

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=7624541

[Brolloks]

That seems just about right, remember 3DMARK06 score is heavily influenced by CPU speeds, bump your quad up to 3.8 or 4 Ghz and you'll break 17 k easily :)
BTW, the PCI-e 1.0 lane is more than adequate to handle that card, it is rated at x 16 so no problems there.

[thescavenger]

I've had a little trouble getting my Q9450 over 3.6GHz. I am still experimenting though.

[chrome-187]

That seems just about right, remember 3DMARK06 score is heavily influenced by CPU speeds, bump your quad up to 3.8 or 4 Ghz and you'll break 17 k easily :)
BTW, the PCI-e 1.0 lane is more than adequate to handle that card, it is rated at x 16 so no problems there.

+1 for o/c cpu higher :) ... thats a really good score the way it is :)

[thescavenger]

I got my Q9450 up to 3.8GHz now. 3DMark06 score jumped up to 17,053

*UPDATE*

Bumped up my 4870 memory to 1100. Score is now 17,141!

[Opteron 1100]

I only get 15800 with mine , processor at 3.3 , 3D06 depends alot of cpu speed

[Albyno]

13000 with my 4850 and E6600 at 3.6 on a 965P chipset. :) that was with GPU at 675 and stock mem

[Badbonji]

Damn what are your voltage settings? My 780i seems to hate going past 1850Mhz FSB, but I manage to crash on desktop at 4Ghz instantly :(

Good work with the scores :D

[reznik]

what u complaining about...ur scores are awsome for a single 4870 and yea the higher cpu speed u go the higher ur score...i break the 16k barrier after 3.4 gig. Besides who cares about benchies dont really mean anything since it isnt practical...its your games fps which are important..

[thescavenger]

Damn what are your voltage settings? My 780i seems to hate going past 1850Mhz FSB, but I manage to crash on desktop at 4Ghz instantly :(

Good work with the scores :D

At 3.8GHz I am running 1.345V on the core and 1.63V on the NB.

[Tuksonrider]

Run 3dmark06 in XP and see your score closer to 18k. :)

[thescavenger]

Run 3dmark06 in XP and see your score closer to 18k. :)

Is there still that big of a gap between XP and Vista?