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"3D Mark 05"

Ok going by the past few days there has been a countdown with certain letters at the start of the countdown, however today it looks like there arn't any numbers which would mean it would be launching in the early hours of the morning, if you wanted something to push that GPU to it's max, this is gonna push new cards like my 6800 GT the same way that 03 pushed the 9800's. Check out futuremark's site here : [URL] http://www.futuremark.com [/URL] for some pics of it running, looks amazing!

Up to 5606 late last night. This is with the Hot fix as well.

Just ran my first test with the score hot fix and got 5209. Will slowly go with higher CPU clock speeds.

Cookie, how do you upload to that site without having to pay for a premium account?

Just downloading it again at the moment.

Hosting images is easy with photobucket.com

Or you could drop your email in here and I will email the specs page look-up for my system before I run the thing, either way, I'm not fussed.

Don't have any web space, feel free to go on 3DMarks official site and do a look-up against the system I have, I think I was third or fourth when I narrowed it down to my system.

X800 XT PE
Athlon 64 FX53
Windows XP Pro
All driver licenses

Should be at the top, look for Alastair K.

I find it laughable you think I would lie about a £1500 system I have built.

How independent are the CPU tests?, they must rely on the GPU a lot, my 3200+ was averaging out about 1 FPS on the boat and 3 FPS on the space one, will it run better if I upgrade my 9600se?

ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> Got 6100 dead. Top CPU frame rate was 10 on the space test, lowest was
> 3 on the ship test.
>
> Amazing visuals.

How's about a screenshot of your score?

True, the only issue is though; it is a crap over-clocker unless you have some serious cooling. It performed really poor in 3D games that required the boat pushing out.

Can't speak about the Northwood though, that supposedly works at lower core temps which enables greater over-clocking.

Plus the Intel chipset compensates with performance when it reaches a certain Temperature as a "safety" measure, yeah right...

The Prescott is embarassing at low speeds. The 31 stage pipeline severely cripples performance until you start ramping the clock speeds way up, which is why vastly overclocked, i.e. 4.5+ GHz Prescotts perform exponentially better as opposed to linearly better like you would expect.

3D Mark however still sucks quite a bit. It will be more relevant the day they use actual game engines, like the Unreal engine or the CryEngine etc. Just now it looks like it is trying to render a Final Fantasy movie.

And really, an FX is being wasted unless it is running [URL]http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk/display_messages.php?threadid=83829&forumid=4006[/URL]

:-D