Bench Team Chat.

[ObscureParadox]

Originally Posted by kilobravo

Still have them.
If the rumours holds water its going to be fun with haswell.

Awesome mate. Looking forward to seeing what you can do with them then

But yeah, Haswell is going to be an absolutely awesome platform


Also guys have a look at this, first time I've ever been on the front page of HWBot XD

[FoodStampz]

I couldn't figure out why MSI afterburner wouldn't give me any higher sliders. So I went on a bing quest and came up with this.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=338906

Now I can O/C much higher

[FoodStampz]

Okay, this is frustrating. Even with the card (3650 DDR2) at 900/425 (from 725/400) I still am scoring HALF of others. Hmmm...
Time to try another driver.

[FoodStampz]

Okay, so im completely clueless on what's going on here.
I tried a bunch of different drivers and the same result...
I have rather high clocks compared to whats on HWBOT and yet im still trailing by 1500-2000 points.

Thoughts?

[ObscureParadox]

Originally Posted by FoodStampz

Okay, so im completely clueless on what's going on here.
I tried a bunch of different drivers and the same result...
I have rather high clocks compared to whats on HWBOT and yet im still trailing by 1500-2000 points.

Thoughts?

Told you before mate, wrong OS and wrong driver. You need to use much older drivers along with windows XP to get the highest scores and then you should be able to compete with the top scores. Usually 9.11 and XP is the best choice with cards of that gen, give that a go and let us know how you got on

Edit : Are you running energy saving features at all too by any chance?? Your CPU score here is well down on what you should be getting. Make sure if you're running win 7 that you have it on high performance mode and that all your energy saving settings are off. Finally is there any way you can get more than 4.4GHz out of the CPU with the cooler you've got??? An extra boost of CPU speed will really help

[FoodStampz]

Originally Posted by ObscureParadox

Told you before mate, wrong OS and wrong driver. You need to use much older drivers along with windows XP to get the highest scores and then you should be able to compete with the top scores. Usually 9.11 and XP is the best choice with cards of that gen, give that a go and let us know how you got on

Edit : Are you running energy saving features at all too by any chance?? Your CPU score here is well down on what you should be getting. Make sure if you're running win 7 that you have it on high performance mode and that all your energy saving settings are off. Finally is there any way you can get more than 4.4GHz out of the CPU with the cooler you've got??? An extra boost of CPU speed will really help

Well, in the competing scores that I saw on HWBOT they were all Win7, so I doubt that's the problem. As far as the driver, I tried a bunch of different drivers including 9.11. Seems to maxing out around 4100 which is terribly strange.
Right now I have the card in a x3 (unlocked to x4) but even when I ran it with my 4.4 i5 it didn't really boost the overall score that much. That's why im kind of lost.

The bench I ran before with my i5 for reference. http://www.3dmark.com/3dm06/17246375

[ObscureParadox]

Originally Posted by FoodStampz

Well, in the competing scores that I saw on HWBOT they were all Win7, so I doubt that's the problem. As far as the driver, I tried a bunch of different drivers including 9.11. Seems to maxing out around 4100 which is terribly strange.
Right now I have the card in a x3 (unlocked to x4) but even when I ran it with my 4.4 i5 it didn't really boost the overall score that much. That's why im kind of lost.

The bench I ran before with my i5 for reference. http://www.3dmark.com/3dm06/17246375

Yeah you're going to really struggle if you're running it with a Phenom CPU, they're simply not good enough to compete in 3D Mark with the Intel CPU's. The very best scores however are with the 9.11 drivers and with windows XP.

If you want to get the best scores then Windows XP and 9.11 drivers on your i5 is 100% the way to go. I don't think you'll be able to improve much more running on a Phenom based system. I think the more experienced overclockers such as rawz, kilobravo and PCTwin will agree with me on that one. If you want to run it on windows 7 though then have a go at the 12.6 driver as the record holder for the card got it with that driver.

If you really want to get some decent points with the X3 then running PCMark 05 would be the best way to go as yo should be able to get a few Global Points if you apply a few tweaks and use an SSD for the HDD tests.

Edit : According to your link it doesn't look like you've overclocked the memory on the GPU much at all. Is there anyway that you can get the memory speed higher as I'm sure that will be holding you back quite a bit after comparing your clocks to the other overclockers.