3DMark 11 Thread.

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How well do Xeons compare to K and/or Extreme processors, anyway? I don't know why but I've always thought server CPU = hopeless at doing anything that isn't server-related, ie gaming. Maybe the Quadro/FirePro thing with workstation video cards twisted my thinking :lol:
 
Sharky.
How well do Xeons compare to K and/or Extreme processors, anyway? I don't know why but I've always thought server CPU = hopeless at doing anything that isn't server-related, ie gaming. Maybe the Quadro/FirePro thing with workstation video cards twisted my thinking :lol:
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They actually run cooler and at lower voltages then 'standard' chips as they're designed to be running 24/7. They also require ECC ram and have some extra virtualisation stuff. But you'd have no problems running a Xeon on a desktop.
 
Sharky.
How well do Xeons compare to K and/or Extreme processors, anyway? I don't know why but I've always thought server CPU = hopeless at doing anything that isn't server-related, ie gaming. Maybe the Quadro/FirePro thing with workstation video cards twisted my thinking :lol:
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My Mac Pro is a 2.66GHz quad core Xeon, with a 4870 and running Windows 7 it did games just fine. The Pros aren't necessarily designed for server use, people use them for 3D modelling and animation, very high resolution image editing (like the 60x2 metre canvas I did once), video editing, science stuff...
 
Pako
Quad-cores aren't that bad. Get into the 8-core processors and prices jump up quite a bit, like 2k each. Yikes. Third quarter and expect to see 10-core Xeon's or even 12-core E5's coming down the pipe.

MMMmmmm......
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Yeah, the 8 core ones were the ones I saw haha.
 
I've got a new score. This is with a little OC that I just threw on there and it worked. I tried alot higher and crashed and didn't want to mess with it anymore right now. I don't think I can catch Pako but I might be able to come pretty close if the cards OC decent. I got my single 670 from in the 8,000s to over 10,000. I've always had trouble overclocking sli though.
This is with sli 670s. I'm trying ot figure out how to make my screen shot smaller to upload. It's 15mb now.
Here's the link. http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/5207022
My task bar dissapears when 3d mark11 goes away and I couldn't get back to my browser. I used chrome instead.
 
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I do have a buddy though that might buy a 670 would it be cheating if I went triples sli with his just to one up the the champion :)

After comparing my physics score to other peoples, it's awful. Maybe i should put some effort into trying ot OC it again. i had it at 4.0 once but have no idea what the settings where then. I tried to get it to 3.8 the other day and it didn't work at all so I gave up. I probably won't mess with it though. I think when the new intels come out it might be time to get rid of the 950.
 
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You should be able to get well over 3.8 with a 950 and that motherboard. Might just be a matter of checking the cpu voltage settings. I have my 950 just under 4.0 and I think I was able to just leave the voltage on auto on my motherboard and it's been completely stable. Otherwise just google for some overclocking guides for the 950. It's pretty straight forward for these kinds of clocks.
 
David
You should be able to get well over 3.8 with a 950 and that motherboard. Might just be a matter of checking the cpu voltage settings. I have my 950 just under 4.0 and I think I was able to just leave the voltage on auto on my motherboard and it's been completely stable. Otherwise just google for some overclocking guides for the 950. It's pretty straight forward for these kinds of clocks.
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I can. I just haven't messed with it for so long I've kind of forgot what to do. There's actually a guide i found once that had step by step instructions for my board and CPU to get it to 3.8 and it worked perfect for me. If I remember right he had his to like 4.2 but anything over 3.8 the way he was doing it crashed me. I think i had to go higher voltage then he did, but I really can't remember. It didn't help me at all in games so I just went back to stock. Benchmarks was the only place I seen an improvement.
 
I guess i posted my results in the wrong thread, yesterday :lol:

Luminis
Only thing I actually did today was to run 3D Mark 11. First time I've used a benchmarking program. I ended up with a result of P10362.
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I guess I could get a little more out of my rig if I was to OC the CPU to something around 4.5 GHz. Right now, it sits at 4.0, but it runs well and cool, so I couldn't be bothered just yet :lol:

Wait, screw that. 200 or so more points would put me in the top three. BRB, OC'ing the CPU more!

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Okay, so I ran the CPU a bit faster. P10500 now. That's a nice, easy to remember number, a bit short of the top three, I guess :lol:

Running a single 680 and a i7-3770K, btw.
 
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My mistake had it's use, then :lol:

In other news, I thought my GPu had a little more to give, so I tunred its clock up a little as well.

P11160. This is addicting :lol: But I better stop before something breaks :lol:
 
Fire Strike cripples the ever-living out of my setup, but I can take solace in the fact that the CPU is running at stock clocks and I'm not running bench clocks on the 6950 twins.

But, still... :P
 
Hm, I ran the CPU up to 4.4 GHz and the GPU's clock was upped by 250MHz. Guess I could push it further if I wanted to :lol: Then again, I gotta reset my driver back to default settings whenever I run 3D Mark (or it'll crash), so it's really annoying to do so...
 
A colleague of mine is under the impression that 3DMark is bias towards ATI. Have any of you found this? The results on the first page would suggest otherwise.
 
That's a tuff one to answer. The only real way to know is have 2 identical systems, with different (but equivalent) graphics cards, or just run an equivalent card in your current system. Who wants to buy my equivalent card :nervous: GTX690 :scared:
 
DQuaN
A colleague of mine is under the impression that 3DMark is bias towards ATI. Have any of you found this? The results on the first page would suggest otherwise.
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well, kepler gk104 gpus sorta skimped on compute power compared to amd 7xxx cards. It seems to be more obvious in the latest 3dmark, but it could just be that drivers need to be updated/tweaked for 3dmark.
 
Recently purchased a GTX680 - scored P9394

My 1st gen i7 860 @3.6ghz is holding my score back here. Will be upgrading to the 4th gen Haswell i7s when they are released in a couple of months. Should easily break the 10k barrier with that.
 
P9504 is the best I want to risk. PC just comes out of its sweet zone and crashes if I overclock anymore so I'm not going any further. :P

My Palit GTX680 is pre-overclocked anyway (~10% faster than stock). Tried bumping it up slightly more (less than 5%) but didn't give me any more points. Then the driver crashed. So I'm not gonna bother as it's voltage locked I think - don't want to go down that route since the card is so fast for my resolution (1920x1080) anyways I don't need to overclock. :lol:
 
Ah I had started typing that and never refreshed the page to see if anyone had posted!

Yeah hopefully! SHOULD have the potential to be better than the current Ivy Bridge processors...
 
Hey guys, ShaZZa alerted me to this thread. I just got a new video card.

Core i7-2600K a@ 4.4GHz
2 x 4GB DDR3 1600
EVGA GTX 780 SC with ACX cooler at factory speed

P12650

With OC I can break into 13K, but I'm still tweaking.
 
Another nVidia product to break 10k. For a single 780, that's an impressive score. I would love to get my hands on a couple......or four.

:cheers:
 

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