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I guess 3DMark03 is totally obsolete now.

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If you scored only 50k+ then something is wrong with drivers or your system. You should still have 130k+ result.
 
1) When you have bottle-neck situation which your processor is weaker than VGAs your score would decrease !!! If you increase VGAs frequency score would drop even more !!!
2) Multi-GPU configuration in SLI mode has worse scaling.
3) Before Ivy-Bridge and specially Haswell CPUs, 3DMark03 was so much VGA independent benchmark, but in Haswell series CPU affect too much on your score ...

post your score with 1 GPU ,,,
 
Woomack said:
If you scored only 50k+ then something is wrong with drivers or your system. You should still have 130k+ result.
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My scores are fine with the latest version of 3dMark with all of the tests. I have a feeling it's not stressing the 780 TI enough to make it run at full power. I'll run it and log GPUz.
 
Run 2c4t

Crank up the CPU as far as it will go

Force GPU to 100 %

Get the best driver you can
 
Instead of screwing around with the CPU cores in the BIOS, can't I just set it via affinity to run on four cores? Also, this may sound like a dumb question, but I have never had to do this before. How do I force the GPU to run 100%, with Afterburner since you can't get the eVGA tool anymore?
 
The point of doing so is to be able to lower your voltage/heat output to get more clocks out of the 980x since it is a single/dual threaded benchmark which relies more on CPU speed than GPU horsepower.
 
I only ran 2 cores with HT and still only got a 50k score. I didn't turn off Speed Step though. That's probably what's doing it. It's such an old program, it isn't taxing the CPU enough and it's staying running lower than 4200. The GPU is running full speed except for speed boost. 1020/7000 (1749.6 x 4). It's definitely not taxing the GPU in the least bit. The temps are like 2c above idle. Let me turn off Speed Step and see if that helps.

Date GPU Core Clock [MHz] GPU Memory Clock [MHz] GPU Temperature [ｰC]
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 25
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 25
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 25
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 25
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 25
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 26
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 26
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 25
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 25
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 26
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 26
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 26
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 25
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 26
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 25
9/15/2014 18:26 1019.6 1749.6 26
 
Did you raise the clocks after you lowered the core count/ht? Again, that's the point there is to squeek out a bit more clock speed. ;)

It should be taxing enough to st tbe cpu ramp up... I doubt speedstel will solve anything... But here is to hoping.
 
Ran 4 cores at 4200, still the same. I'll check if I have the last release of 3dMark03, but I'm sure I do. It's no biggie if 3dmark 03 doesn't work. Running Firestrike and Firestrike Extreme at stock settings for everything gets me better than 99% of all computers.

BTW, it doesn't cut down on power usage. I was using the same watts with four cores as twelve and I disabled them in BIOS. Device manager only showed four processors. I guess it still draws the same power regardless.
 
Your going to need a lot more speed than 4.2 to make this bench go
You also will need to tweak it up, are you tring to submit for your team ?

They can show you the ropes,

Driver
LOD settings
NVCP settings
DX settings

I takes a lot to make these old benches go, but when you do it can be amazing and a lot of fun
 
Hey Doc, I tried to talk him into joining the benching team but he never said ya or nay. The Doc hit the nail on it's head with post #15 :)
 
No team, but you shouldn't have to tweak to make an 11 year old benchmark run. It ran just fine with my 980X. How can it take more than 4.2 to run a benchmark that was designed when the fastest Intel was 3.4 GHz with a single core with HT? This was my 980X run with a score over 130k. It also read the number of cores wrong. I don't know what my OC was back then, but it couldn't have been much more than 4.3-4.5.

The best I have ever been able to do stable was 5.0 with a 2600. This CPU will be lucky to do 4.5. I have to manually set the voltage for stock speeds or it pumps 1.35 @ 4.0. I set it to 1.3 @ 4.2 and it ran 13 hours of Prime blend last night.

9-15-2014 8-24-45 PM.jpg
 
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That bench was fun and tweakable.

This bench, and 01 to an extent, just work that way for Cpus. New architecture isn't always utilized by older benchmarks to see the marked improvement you expect. Because of your setup (3 high end gpus), regardless of benchmark, you will need to push the highest clocks you can.
 
Time to play with the big boys and get some dry ice or ln2. A massive hex core really isn't the best cpu for this benchmark. High clocks rule and as witchy mentioned, 4.2ghz won't do it. A 2600k or something mid 5ghz (or greater) will be needed.

Since you have a ton of cores, 06, vantage, 11, and fire strike all respond well to many cores specifically because of the physics/cpu tests. I'd move to those for that cpu. ;)
 
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