Marathon: Old school April 3DMark 01

bmwbaxter · Apr 1, 2013

Marathon: Old school April 3DMark 01
The benching team invites you to participate. Come over to the Overclocktagon section and compete.
You can learn some tips and tweaks, plus see how your scores compare.
No pressure, just overclocking, tweaking and fun!

This month the Marathon Benching Competition will be continuing with 3D Mark 01. Please refer to the MBC rules here for any clarification on what is and isn't allowed.

Note! any OS is allowed, but running XP will score up to 3 times better than any other OS... *HINT*HINT*

What: 3DMark 01
Who: any forum member
GPU: any GPU, SLI and CFX allowed
CPU: any CPU, no speed cap
Cooling: any cooling type
When: Ends April 30th 11:59 PST
Please use the background below.
Download the 3D Mark benchmark:
Here
Full Competition Rules:
here

Please post a summary of your results like this "Division(AMD or Intel)|Name|GPU|Cooling|Time" along with the other required information... ie... Screen Shot with correct background. Divisions will be AMD cpu or Intel CPU
Background:

Leaderboard:

xsuperbgx · Apr 1, 2013

Cool background. Do they have the cool moving backgrounds with that?

Janus67 · Apr 1, 2013

Nice, now who still has GTX580s?!

ChanceCoats123 · Apr 1, 2013

WEWT!!!!!

THIS GUY!!! (and a pretty nice 3770k

)

TheHutchTTU · Apr 1, 2013

I keep getting an error that states, '3DMark2001 SE was not able to detect 128 MB of memory. At least 128 MB of memory is required for 3DMark to run correctly.'

I'm assuming this is a compatibility issue with Windows 7? I tried running in compatibility mode for XP and 2000, but received the same error. Any thoughts?

ChanceCoats123 · Apr 1, 2013

Oh dear lord, do not even post a 1 point score in Win 7.

Bmw, can we make that a rule? Runs must be in XP. :bang head

Bobnova · Apr 1, 2013

What chance means to say is, you'll get a score 2-3 times higher by running in XP.

bmwbaxter · Apr 1, 2013

ChanceCoats123 said:
Oh dear lord, do not even post a 1 point score in Win 7.

Bmw, can we make that a rule? Runs must be in XP.

No

but I did make a note about it. pretty hard to miss now :thup:

Bobnova said:
What chance means to say is, you'll get a score 2-3 times higher by running in XP.

and a certain flavour scores 1% higher 100% of the time

OCMusicJunkie · Apr 2, 2013

I have absolutely no idea what type of framework this thing uses because I was just learning to drive on my own when it came out....

If anyone here was around back when you mail ordered this on 5.25" floppy disks and might have some working knowledge of it, is there any obvious reason that either Nvidia/AMD might fair better than the other with otherwise even power cards, or why perhaps older hardware might be expected to run that needs more than a graphing calculator to render?

Haha... really, no actual dislike of the pick this month at all. I much prefer it to last month when I gave up after trying to run the bench for free once to get a feel for it, and had my GPU give up before the tutorial actually had finished and turned into the bench run. :bang head

Bobnova · Apr 2, 2013

GTX580 is where it's at.
Failing that, 4890 or GTX285/280 or GTX480.

Mostly it's a question of CPU (SB/IB is mandatory for a good score, clocks are key. Massive, massive clocks) though, and to a lesser extent tweaking.

OCMusicJunkie · Apr 2, 2013

I think that I've used up my allowance of daily Back to the Future references already, but I guess tomorrow I'm going to be working on the Flux Capacitor so I can go back and snag me some brand new 580's and 4890's. Who wants me to bring back some blank cassette tapes for their mixes?......

DOM. · Apr 2, 2013

Woot I'm in

But if I'm not to tired when I get out of work in the moring XD

Dewar is full and 4870 is ready for some juice....

DOM. · Apr 2, 2013

Also have a 4890 that needs juice

MetalRacer · Apr 2, 2013

DOM. said:
Woot I'm in

But if I'm not to tired when I get out of work in the moring XD

Dewar is full and 4870 is ready for some juice....

It's about time you jumped in. :cheers:

DOM. · Apr 2, 2013

damnit only 140k 3rd for the 4870 on the bot

jiccman1965 · Apr 2, 2013

INTEL/jiccman1965/single/MSI 7970 OC/1225/1790/stock cooling

Got to get things started.

MetalRacer · Apr 2, 2013

DOM. said:
damnit only 140k 3rd for the 4870 on the bot

Only 3000 boints away from the gold. :popcorn:

DOM. · Apr 2, 2013

INTEL/DOM./HD4870/1080-1150/LN2

ChanceCoats123 · Apr 2, 2013

Nice run there! :thup:

Dark_n_Beyond · Apr 2, 2013

DOM comes out swinging! Nice!

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