8800gtx overclocking + 3d mark scores.. this good? (i think its kinda bad)pics!!

[nd4spdbh2]

TO the OP... thoes are great scores with your cpu, the difference say between a 3-3.4ghz c2d and your chip playing the same game at same settings probably wont be super noticible... but in 3dmark your card becomes cpu bottlenecked, as the cpu cant pump out the raw data to the gfx card fast nuf. essientally the 8800 is waiting on the cpu... and you want it the other way round.

 

[atm743]

^^^

nice post

yeah your cpu should be the crap out of my 4200+ even with my ddr2 ram. yeah my cpu is bad i only have 2x 512 L2

well i plan on buying a E6750 in the next coming week. hopefully soon. being how they are only 190 for the chip and i can overclock it to 3.4 EASY that should help ALLOT with 3d marks and also allot of games i play. bf2142 still runs the same as when i had my 7900. maybe a 5-8 fps better with the 8800gtx. apparently thats saying my cpu is holding me back on online games. especially when im in a 30 + people server for bf2142.

once i get the 6750 and a new mobo ( evga 680I or the new gigabyte mobo with the new chipset and 2.0 Pci express not sure yet) i should be able to hit 11000 easy

 

[nd4spdbh2]

^^^

nice post

yeah your cpu should be the crap out of my 4200+ even with my ddr2 ram. yeah my cpu is bad i only have 2x 512 L2

well i plan on buying a E6750 in the next coming week. hopefully soon. being how they are only 190 for the chip and i can overclock it to 3.4 EASY that should help ALLOT with 3d marks and also allot of games i play. bf2142 still runs the same as when i had my 7900. maybe a 5-8 fps better with the 8800gtx. apparently thats saying my cpu is holding me back on online games. especially when im in a 30 + people server for bf2142.

once i get the 6750 and a new mobo ( evga 680I or the new gigabyte mobo with the new chipset and 2.0 Pci express not sure yet) i should be able to hit 11000 easy

oh big time... i can bump my E6600 to 3.4ghz and my 8800gts to 621/999 and i grab a score of 11327

ur gtx will score a decent mount better than that too!

heck back in the day when i had an EVGA 7900gt KO 512mb i didnt have my C2D rig up so i wanted to see scores on the card.. poped it in my friends machine (x2 4400 @ stock clocks) and scored like 8700ish in 3dmark05, once i build my c2d rig at stock clocks of everything it was like 9500pts...

it sorta sux that gfx cards need so much cpu power... but i guess its necessary... an x2 4200 is no slouch... but not good nuf to todays standards unfortunatly.

 

[jason4207]

Get a quad (x3210's are $250) for 13-14k.

I'm getting 12,360 w/ my quad and GTS 320.

 

[Jetster220]

Well, just for fun, check my scores in my signature, I am running a almost Identical system as the OP, just a much higher clock on my 4200+. My 3DMark scores are appropriatly higher based on my higher OC, as everyone else has said, the 8800's just love raw mhz.

 

[atm743]

Get a quad (x3210's are $250) for 13-14k.

I'm getting 12,360 w/ my quad and GTS 320.

Im was really tempted in getting a quad cause crysis will run well with it.

was looking at the Q6600's they dont look that half bad

 

[jason4207]

Q6600 is great. The x3210 is just a little cheaper. Both will do 3.6GHz on air.

 

[atm743]

Q6600 is great. The x3210 is just a little cheaper. Both will do 3.6GHz on air.

are they the same or different core?

i know one is xeon (server) but didnt know if it has a different core or better stepping or something

 

[jason4207]

They are both identical except the Q6600 has an extra multiplier (9x vs 8x). Make sure you get G0 no matter which way you go. ClubIT has G0 x3210's and G0 Q6600's.

 

[atm743]

They are both identical except the Q6600 has an extra multiplier (9x vs 8x). Make sure you get G0 no matter which way you go. ClubIT has G0 x3210's and G0 Q6600's.

i never knew much about stepping. is G0 good??

and wont the extra multiplier be better for the fsb?

 

[Immortal_Hero]

G0 is the most recent stepping. It also introduced the 1333 MHz FSB. G0 is what you should desire as they run cooler, require less voltage, and clock higher.

 

[atm743]

G0 is the most recent stepping. It also introduced the 1333 MHz FSB. G0 is what you should desire as they run cooler, require less voltage, and clock higher.

ahhh cool cool ill look into that when im ready to buy cpu

i usually buy my stuff from newegg. how would i know if the cpu has G0?

 

[Rattle]

dont mean to be a A-hole but i call BS.
thats why when i over clock my 7900GTs i get a score of a 1000 points or more.

overclocking a gfx card thats hugley bottlenecked by the system its in even at stock is BS

not to be an a-hole

 

[Wayward_Son]

I disagree, Rattle. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but take a look at some more of my results.

I still start by stating that my graphics card is currently bottlenecked by my CPU as evidenced by the fact that my graphics scores increase in lockstep with my CPU score every time I push up the clock on my processor. I would like to show you, however, that even while my GPU is waiting on my CPU for more data, overclocking my GPU does in fact yield improvements in 3dMark06.

I left my GTS320 at its factory speed of 580/1800 while I overclocked my Opty170, running 3dMark06 every time to evaluate the results. When I finally reached a satisfactory stable overclock of 2.9ghz, I avhieved the following scores:

1. 9711 (overall)
2. 4507 (sm2.0)
3. 4375 (hdr/sm3.0)
4. 2271 (CPU)

I then left my CPU and RAM at that overclock profile and began overclocking only my GPU. My next run is with my card at 600/1840.

1. 9854
2. 4599
3. 4463
4. 2269

As you can see here my CPU score stayed the same (or so close as to be virtually identical) while my SM2.0 score jumped 92 points and my HDR/SM3.0 score jumped 88 points. This increased my overall score by 143 points to 9854.

My next run is at 600/1902:

1. 9905
2. 4608
3. 4519
4. 2268

Then at 600/2006:

1. 9977
2. 4642
3. 4573
4. 2269

Then at 651/2006:

1. 10232
2. 4788
3. 4742
4. 2274

Then at 674/2006:

1. 10320
2. 4844
3. 4815
4. 2265

Then at 674/2100:

1. 10389
2. 4866
3. 4876
4. 2269

Then at 674/2164:

1. 10418
2. 4865
3. 4961
4. 2267

Notice through all of these runs that my CPU/RAM score stayed virtually exactly the same, only differing by a spread of nine points (2265-2274). Meanwhile, my graphics card scores in the SM2.0 and HDR/SM3.0 tests increased nicely with each bump in either the core clock or memory clock of my GPU. And the final result?

I went from an overall score of 9711 to 10,418, an increase of 707 points which put me well into the 10,000 mark bracket.

At least in the case of the 8800 series of cards, I'd say that overclocking the GPU is definitely worthwhile even while bottlenecked by aging processor architecture.

Of course, we might have different ideas of what it means for the CPU to truly "bottleneck" the GPU.