Barton 2800 and 5900U escapades

tastyweat

I SHALL break 6k by the end of the evening!!!

Just ran one benchie - and got 5899 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=1548702

let's see what I can push this to!

blade5545

Check my out I got 5929 today, talk about pushing my hardware to the limit!!! I propobly have the fastest ATI9700 Pro in here without a vmod
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=1548975

tastyweat

Maybe - that's a good score.

Although - I was able to reach 5629 on a 9700np with stock cooling!!!

I seem to be unable to surpass 5899 - best I got was 5889

blade5545

Looking at your specs it looks like your cpu still has some room to overclock and if you up the core speed on your card i'm sure your going to break 6k

tastyweat

The 5889 score was with an extra 40 MHz on the core and 60MHz on the mem

blade5545

If your not seeing any artifacts than you still have room to overclock, the best test to see if your pushing you card too much is the 3rd test Troll if you start seeing white dots than your pushing it too much if your dont than you still have more room, I saw that you have NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 Ultra the default speed on that one are 450mhz core and 425mhz mem but on your results I saw that your core is only 301mhz and your mem is 924mhz check that out

tastyweat

Yeah - the fx 5900u has the two speeds - 300mhz core in 2D mode and then speeds the core and fan up for 3d mode - it is normally at 450MHz - so no worries there.

I believe I have managed to find the sweet-spot, combined with the 52.16 driver set. 545MHz core and 932memory kicks out a wonderous score of 6610. My aim was to break 6k - and I thrashed it - this was with a virus scanner running in the background too! I forgot to disable it!!! I'm gonna go see what it will do without the virus scanner.

here is compare url:

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=1549557

blade5545

Congatulations!!! But I sorry to do this to you but the reason that you totally blew away the 6k mark is beacause even Nvida admitted this thats why Futuremark does not offically accept scores based on that version of the driver is beacuse some of the scenes which are supposed to be done in dx9 are actually done in dx8 which is why you get such dramatic increase, Nvidia decided it was an acceptable tradeoff beacsue of the limitations of the hardware in order to provide the best game experiance for the users and in the scenes that the drivers does that in you cant really see the diffrence between dx8 and dx9

I know I know you hate my guts at the moment but the version of the drivers that you were previously using are the last drivers that futuremark offically accepts because they render the image that futuremark intended it look like

tastyweat

Ah right - bugger - well... at least it doesn't look any different!

I was under the impression that the cheating drivers were the 45.03s I thought they were gone in the latest drivers - lol

blade5545

The last patch to 3dmark03 rendered the cheats useless in that version so it was forced to render the image correctly, but yea your right we benchmark for the fun of it if all your games play fine than thats all you need to be happy

tastyweat

Yeah - so long as they look good

blade5545

Remember yesterday,you can now put back the 52.16 drivers beaceuse the new patch for 3dmark03 renders the cheats in that version useless unfurtenly you might in for some lower scores

http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8952

As a member of the Futuremark Beta program, we've had acess to the release candidate of this patch for a little while. here's a peak:

Code:
Patch Driver 3DMarks GT1 GT2 GT3 GT4
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra 330 52.16 6412 205.7 46.6 37 37.3
GeForce FX 5950 Ultra 333 52.16 5538 205 39.6 33.1 26.3
Radeon 9800 XT 330 3.8 6435 209.7 45.4 38.6 36.3
Radeon 9800 XT 333 3.8 6436 210.5 45.4 38.6 36.3

tastyweat

Ah well... I'm back to my good old 9700np now - lol

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