rank #79 good job lads my scores are abysmal haha, Im going for it tonight though, see if these corsairs are up to par in maxxmem, might try benching cpu aswell but need to open up the antec and set fans on windtunnel mode first :nerd:
i think you can run better on vista or w7 that is a hd or ssd dependant bench.something to do with better scoring in certain sections. iram and raid cards sorta thing. i'm no good at it,the tricks used by the pros i know did not share much. pm chispy for tips he held a few records on that bench good luck you guys i'm off to load up vista try not to kill anyhing but push it to the limits
I think I've two 10k 36GB Raptors I could raid in Vista/7/XP. AT least access times should drop low enough to give a better score.
Aquamark scores like 80k more in winxp :nerd: win7: 140,893 winxp: 222,312 edit: and 3dmark 2000 needs to run in Win98/WinMe compatibility mode or it wouldn't start..
lol that's the truth under win7 my score is horrible, under xp64 it's 200k+ here's something I never understood about the 3dmark series, I've tested this with fraps, playclaw and several other programs.. wonder what the discrepancy is http://i55.tinypic.com/314yoih.jpg in testing 01, 03, vantage & 11, all fps checking programs are rigth on in thier comparison of the 3dmark fps readout and the other fps checking programs but in 05/06 the discrepancies are huge.. in gaming using all fps checking programs along side the built in ones like the BF series, and others, they are also correct in their readout, it's just 05/06 that are hugely different
AM3 and 2001 give crap score under win7 ,,, even using compatibility mode and or special patch for them ..... maybe something with priority can help, but well not success for now.. need think to put an xp on a HDD for get some scores ... AM3 is higly CPU limited, are most gpu's are now quite too much for it... so yes faster is the cpu, and higher will be the result ... on the 3Dmark01, the problem is quite the same, but there's some tricks with memory and HDD access on some benches, ofc there's still LOD bias too but i never use them. ( really important on3Dmark01)
that's why I dual boot, for dx9 games, win7 is just terrible, so I boot to xp64 and enjoy the speed, where as xp64 on some of the newer games using dx9 mode is just ugly and terrible..
^ yea i have dual boot too, well i need it for Fear1 Combat - or i have some lag issues with my logitech G15v2 keyboard in win7/vista, winxp is the only answer lol my humbled 250gts http://hwbot.org/community/submission/2152229_th3hunt3r_aquamark_geforce_gts_250_222312_marks cpu score is ~21k in win7 and ~23k in winxp.
Well in the newer benches Im much faster obviously, but need to pick up my score in the older ones. Plenty of points to be had if I can. Might put xp on another disk and see.
Its either the web test, so ensure you have IE set up, or the transparent windows test. Dont set anything like 'disable visual themes' or whatever in the compatibility tab of the shortcut. Also dont have any other program windows running above PC Mark. Had this myself.
got a nice score and points in heaven, going higher , Im rank 33 in the team edit:scored 3.1 global points so far
cmon lads only 31.2 points to go and we are at 78 , doing an all nighter on heaven hopefully, gonna try get close to chispys score, lol he done it on crazy cooling but my lil shaman can do some business anyone wanna gimme tips on a vMEM mod for this card ? oh oh forgot to say would a 3850agp be worth doing a few runs? got one standing by but the mobo and chip with it is a POS lol, some crappy celeron e1200 I think.
gents which drivers do you recommend for benching for nvidia? 03/05/06 and which ones for vantage/2011 and heaven?
Can't get vantage to run, crashes with a black screen while loading gpu test 1. tried everything mentioned in this thread. Didn't happen before 1.1 update.
Im going to start benching this weekend, been working on my overclock settings for my cpu. BZ did you try uninstalling and reinstalling. or right click the icon then click properties then select compatability and finally disable desktop composition?
have tried re-installing without any change but haven't tried compatibiliity settings, gonna try that now.
cant help you out on the 6970 vmod sry as for the 3850 agp i would not bother tbh no points there +some heavy hitters too but try if you want to for 03 05 06 266.58 have been ok for me,cant speak of the other benches. ok tommy! will try to stop by on sunday to drop that chip off if you need anything else tell me before i leave. no errors just a black screen? can you run the cpu tests?